Hannibal, MO by Dolorean From the album Not Exotic Tabbed by Kevin (liquoricewhip@hotmail.com) Drop D tuning (DADGBe) D: 000232 G: x20033 A7: x02020 D D G D I had a true love from Hannibal D A7 G Where the Mississippi turns flat and wide D G D We'd lay out on the sand bars D A7 D And fall asleep to the barges and the fireflies D G D I killed my true love from Hannibal D A7 G She was nineteen, I was twenty two D G D Summer was ending and she was leaving soon D A7 D To study writing on the east coast D G D And I worked in my father's shop D A7 G Fixing air conditioners and heating pumps D G D Going to college never made much sense to me D A7 D Wanted to keep my true love close to me D G D Summers are hot in Hannibal D A7 G The summers there are unbearable D G D So we'd steal down to the water's edge D A7 D And cool off in the river's ebb D G D One night we decided what we would do D A7 G Swim to the middle until our strength gave out D G D Where the current was strong and deep D A7 D Together we'd be pulled down to sleep D G D So we swam 'til our bodies were weak D A7 G I watched my true love get washed out to sea D G D I felt a terrible grip from beneath D A7 D The river took her but it didn't take me Solo/interlude: D chord, and piano does this: ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- ----6---7--------6---9-------7--------5---- ------------9------------9----------------- ------------------------------------------- then a guitar does this four times: -14--12--10------ ----------------- ----------------- ----------------- ----------------- ----------------- D G D In St. Louis there's a prison cell D A7 G It'll be twelve more years 'till I get out D G D When I do her father says he'll shoot me down D A7 D If I don't do it myself D G D Most days I just try and sleep D A7 G Dream of Hannibal when it was in between D G D It's not quite day and it's not yet night D A7 D We fall asleep to the barges and the fireflies