Flashback Blues

Tabbed by: Dave S.
Tuning: Standard
Artist: John Prine
Album: John Prine
Year: 1971
* = strum once

Intro

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Verse 1

      C               G
While window shopping through the past
  C            F
I ran across a looking glass
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Reflecting moments remaining in a burned out light
C            G
Tragic magic prayers of passion
C                     F
Stay the same through changing fashions
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They freeze my mind like water on a winter’s night

Pre-Chorus

D
Spent most of my youth
    G
Out hobo cruising
D
And all I got for proof
   G*
Is rocks in my pockets and dirt in my shoes

Chorus

   C          G
So goodbye nonbeliever
C                     F
Don’t you know that I hate to leave here
C             G                   C
So long babe, I got the flashback blues.

Instrumental

C  G  C  F
C  G  C

Verse 2

C           G
Photographs show the laughs
C              F
Recorded in between the bad times
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Happy sailors dancing on a sinking ship
C                G
Cloudy skies and dead fruit flies
C                   F
Waving goodbye with tears in my eyes
     C                     G                        C
Well sure I made it but ya know it was as hell of a trip.

Pre-Chorus

D
Spent most of my youth
    G
Out hobo cruising
D
And all I got for proof
   G*
Is rocks in my pockets and dirt in my shoes

Chorus

   C          G
So goodbye nonbeliever
C                     F
Don’t you know that I hate to leave here
C             G                   C
So long babe, I got the flashback blues.

Verse 3

    C                 G
And ten times what it grieves you
C                      F
That’s how much more I hate to leave you now
C             G                   C
So long babe, I got the flashback blues.

Instrumental

C  G  C  F
C  G  C

Pre-Chorus

D
Spent most of my youth
    G
Out hobo cruising
D
And all I got for proof
   G*
Is rocks in my pockets and dirt in my shoes

Chorus

   C          G
So goodbye nonbeliever
C                     F
Don’t you know that I hate to leave here
C             G                   C
So long babe, I got the flashback blues.

Outro

   C          G
So goodbye nonbeliever
          C           F
Don’t you know that I hate to leave here
C             G                   C
So long babe, I got the flashback blues.