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Download# From: fail@oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us (John Fail) {t:All Her Favorite Fruit} {st:Camper Van Beethoven} {c:play G as barre} {sot} last time slide e-2-------2-------2-------2-3-5-3-0-2-----------------|-/10----------------- B-3-------3-------3-------3---------3-----------------|--------------------- G-2-------2-------2-------2---------2----repeat this--|--------------------- D-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0-----------------|--------------------- A-----------------------------------------------------|--------------------- E-----------------------------------------------------|--------------------- {eot} [D]I drive alone, home from work And I always think of [Bm]her [A] [D]Late at night I call her, but I never say a [Bm]word [A] [G]But I can see her squeeze the [Bm]phone between her [A]chin and shoulder [D] [G] [Bm]And I can [A]almost smell her [D]breath, faint, with a [G]sweet scent of decay[D] [G] [D]She serves him mashed potatoes She serves him peppered [Bm]steak, and [A]corn [D]Pulls the dress up over her head, lets it fall to the [Bm]floor[A] [G]And does she ever whisper [Bm]in his ear, [A]all her favorite fruit[D] [G] [Bm]And all the [A]most exotic [D]places they are [G]cultivated [D]And I'd like to take her there, rather than this [Bm]train I'm [A]on [D]And if I weren't a civil servant, I'd have a place in the [Bm]colonies[A] [G]We'd play croquet behind [Bm]white-washed walls and [A]drink our tea at four[D] [G] [Bm]Within [A]intervention's [D]distance of the [G]embassy [D]The midday air grows thicker[A] w[D]ith the heat And drifts [Bm]towards the line of [A]trees [D]When negroes blink their eye[A]s,[D] they sink into siest[Bm]a [A] [G]And we are rotting like a [Bm]fruit underneath [A]a rusting roo[D]f [G] [Bm]We dream our [A]dreams and sing our [D]songs of love -[G] fecundity Of [D]life and love[G], of [D]life and [G]love, of [D]life and [G]love {c:(end with opening riff, then finish on D)}