Chord/Tab song: Slavin' Away

Band: The Fiery Furnaces

Note: This is one of my favorite songs, so I decided to tab it out.
Nothing special, just two different chord progressions throughout
the whole song. I didn't bother with the weird bass lines.
ENJOY!!!

SLAVIN' AWAY

Slavin?[Am]? away, all for [C]you my love,

and I'[F]ve nothing to show for it

'cept my dusty o[Am]ld book full of pictures.

Dusty ol[Am]d book, tell me a [C]story

'bout how[F] I wasn't so tired

[Am]

Then play this chord progression a few times
(listen to the song and it will make sense):

A, F#, D, E, A, F, E, A

Weird bass line

[Am]I ran off,

put o[C]n corduroy knickers that I got from the coal shoveling kid

[F]and hitch-hiked in a rickety old Ford,

[Am]hitch-hiked in a rattley old Norton side-car

[Am]'down strange roads, in th[C]e purring rain', as the poet put it,

[F]on up to St. Paul

[Am]on a cold day in the middle of the fall.



And they picked me up
for not wearing a dress
and suspended my sentence
if I wore something with a strap that was pink
and I scrubbed up good on somebody's sink.
So now I'll catch the Canadian Pacific and not be too specific,
to somewhere up north,
and get into lumber and slumber when I like
and in the spring ride down into Cheyenne on my bike.

HAPPY PART
A, F#, D, E, A, F, E, A

Weird bass line stuff

Then play the same "Slavin Away" chord progression (Am, C, F, Am) for the
spoken word, and up until the happy part and you play this:

Instrumental (happy part): A, F#, D, E, A, F, E, A

Crazy dramatic part: Am, C, F, Am

[A]I could see her, [F#]looking in the mirror at me

[D]wondering if it wasn't[E] plain for every[A]one t'see'

[F]nothing ever seemed to t[E]urn out how it m[A]ight be.

continue playing same chord progression until the grandma starts talking