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Soon Forget, as performed by Pearl Jam
Binaural

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Author/Artist: Pearl Jam
Title: Soon Forget
Album: Binaural
Transcribed by: Rick Posey & Evan Cowan
Written For: http://www.giventowail.com
Updated: 09/12/2003

Ukelele Tuning: GCEA (low to high); as played live on the Showbox DVD.

Note: The G string is actually tuned up an octave. Also, in 2000, the song for 
some reason was played a whole step down (as heard on the live mp3 at The Sky
I Scrape) and on the Binaural recording, it actually sounds a little flat (if
I'm not mistaken) just like Of The Girl for some unknown reason.

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                                  Sorry is the fool who trades his            

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   Soul for a corvette     thinks he'll get the girl he'll only               

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   Get the mechanic        what's     missing            he's                   

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   Living                 a  day  he'll  soon  forget                that's  

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   One more time around      the sun is   going     down    the               

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  Moon is out but he's drunk and shouting putting people down he's            

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   Pissing       he's living a day he'll soon for-                            

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  -get                                                                        

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    Counts his money every morning                                            

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   The only thing that keeps him horny                                        

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Locked in a giant house that's alarming  the                                 

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   Townsfolk they all laugh                                                   

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-|-0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0-0----2--2-2----2--2-2-2-|-------------------------------
Sorry is the fool who trades his love for hi-rise rent                       

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   Seems the more you make equals the loneliness you get and it's             

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    Fitting           he's barely living   a                                  

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   Day   he'll  soon  forget                   that's                         

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   One more time around and there is not a sound he's                         

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   Lying dead clutching Benjamins never put the money down he's               

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  Stiffening    we're all  whistling a man we'll soon forget                  

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