STRAY PAPER (Tift Merritt)
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[Actually in F; capo 3.]
[Each chord is one measure.]


         Em     Em       D       A
I got a postcard with an old address
               Em   Em    D        A
A picture of Houston in a beat-up mess
          Em     Em       A          D
Just to remind me that it all went wrong
        G        G          A        A
Just to beat me up, just to turn me on

D        Bm    D        Bm    D        Bm
  Stray paper,   stray paper,   stray paper
G                A      A 
  Burning in my hands  [extra measure]

Cigarettes in the glove box with the classified ads
Ashes and silver worn into your hands
"I gotta see you" on a bar napkin
Gas station quarters, I got to see you again

Stray paper, stray paper, stray paper
Burning in my hands

Somewhere there's a letter that I never sent
It used to read pretty, now it's empty as
That night in the headlights with the blankets pressed
Was it something to you baby, was it always just

Stray paper, stray paper, stray paper
Burning in my hands

Stray paper, stray paper, stray paper
Burning in my hands
Burning in my hands
Burning in my hands [extra measure]

[guitar solo over Em Em D A; end on Em.]



- transcribed by Adam Schneider, http://adamschneider.net/