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Author/Artist: Pearl Jam
Title: Off He Goes
Album: No Code
Transcribed by: Evan Cowan
Email: evan@giventowail.com


Intro:

F  Am  (x2)

F  C


Verse:

F  C
     Know a man
F  C                            Am
     His face seemed pulled and tense
          F C         F    C           Csus4 C    Am
Like he's riding on a motorbike in the stron-gest winds
       F           C
So I approach with tact
F            C              
Suggest that he should relax
    F           C      G7       F
But he's always moving much too fast
           F             Am
Said he'll see me on the flipside
F                 Am
On this trip he's taking for a ride


Chorus:

F         F C    F        C  
He's been taking too much on
F        C             F     C   Csus4  C    Am
There he goes with his perfectly un  -  kept clothes
F        C
There he goes


Interlude:

Csus4 C Csus4 C Csus4 C  C  (x4)

Csus4  C  Am


Verse:

     F      C           
He's yet to come back 
F  C
   But I've seen his picture
F  C               F    C             Am
   It doesn't look the same up on the rack
   F      C
We go way back
  F                Am
I wonder about his insides
     F                     Am
It's like his thoughts are too big for his size


Chorus:

F         F C         F       C
He's been taken where I don't know
F      C             F     C   Csus4  C    Am
Off he goes with his perfectly un  -  kept hope
F        C
There he goes


Interlude:

Csus4 C Csus4 C Csus4 C  C  (x4)

Csus4  C  Am


Verse:

          F      C
And now I rub my eyes 
F      C
For he has returned
F  C           F  C                 Csus4      C     Am
   Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned
    F        C
For he still smiles
    F          C
And he's still strong
F  C                 F          C                  Csus4 C   Am
   Nothing's changed but the surrounding bullshit, that  has grown
    F        C    F         C        F       C         F   C         Csus4 C   Am
And now he's home and we're laughing like we always did my same old, same  old friend
        F          C
Until a quarter to ten 
F         C
I saw the strain creep in
F  C               F         C                          Csus4 C   Am
   He seems distracted and I know just what is going to hap - pen next
       F         C    F     C
Before his first step he is off again


Outro:

Csus4 C Csus4 C Csus4 C  C   (x2)

C*  C  (x2)

Csus4  C  Am

F  C

Csus4 C Csus4 C Csus4 C  C   (x2)

Csus4 C Csus4 C Csus4  C  Am

F  C  (x4)



Unusual Chord(s):

          Csus4             Csus4                    G7                G7
fret: I  II  III IV                      fret:  I  II  III IV
E   0---|---|---|---|       --0--         E   |-1-|---|---|---|       --1--
B   |-1-|---|---|---|       --1--         B   |---|---|-4-|---|       --3--
G   0---|---|---|---|       --0--         G   0---|---|---|---|       --0--
D   |---|---|-4-|---|       --3--         D   0---|---|---|---|       --0--
A   |---|---|-3-|---|       --3--         A   |---|-2-|---|---|       --2--
E   |---|---|---|---|       -----         E   |---|---|-3-|---|       --3--
  (numbers represent
   finger used to play
   the corresponding fret)

           C*                C*
fret: I   II III  IV
E   |---|---|-4-|---|       --3--
B   |-1-|---|---|---|       --1--
G   0---|---|---|---|       --0--
D   |---|-2-|---|---|       --2--
A   |---|---|-3-|---|       --3--
E   |---|---|---|---|       -----

C* is really just another form of a regular C chord, I just couldn't think
of any other way to refer to it.

I also recommend playing the F like so:

            F                 F
fret: I   II III  IV
E   |-1-|---|---|---|       --1--
B   |-1-|---|---|---|       --1--
G   |---|-2-|---|---|       --2--
D   |---|---|-3-|---|       --3--
A   |---|---|---|---|       -----
E   |---|---|---|---|       -----