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A Baby for Pree (Live at Jittery Joe’s) – Jeff Mangum

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I suggest finding someway to listen to this version before you try to play it. It would

difficult just off the chords alone.

This is the LIVE AT JITTERY JOE’S version of the song, NOT the one on On Avery Island.

NOTE: His guitar is tuned slightly sharp when playing this song, so if you try to play

the CD it will sound off. Even a capo on the first will be too sharp, you have to be just

sharp. A flat sharp, if that makes sense.

Intro:

Blistering Pree, all smiling and swollen

Makes babies to breathe with their hearts hanging open

All over the sheets as soft as beets in some brown dresser drawer

And with bees in her breath and the rest of her ringing

They’ll sting through her chest with a force hard and beating

Until wonderfully wet she will get

Until she’s soaked inside her clothes

And there is no sorry to be sorry for

For a roll around the floor some afternoon so sound and soft

It made her swallow all her sweat with every bit of breath she coughs

And when the day it came to pour all her babies all across the bathroom floor

She will be swimming in them all forevermore

Glow right into you, I will glow

Right into you I will glow

Right into you

And I let you down

Swollen and small is where you find me now

With that silver stripping off and my tongue you’re tearing out

And you’ll never hear me talk

Glow right into you, I will glow

Right into you I will glow

Right into you

And I will be strong, strong enough

To shout above your voice that’s blaring hard

And your face that’s falling out into the dust of what you are

And I will never hear you talk

Glow right into you, I will glow

Right into you I will glow

Right into you

And with my little finger

I could make it all crumble

I could make it all over

Before you would even know

Glow