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Author/Artist: Pearl Jam
Title: Soon Forget
Album: Binaural
Transcribed by: Evan Cowan
Email: evan@giventowail.com
Ukelele arranged for guitar
To match the recording, tune down about a quarter step
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Sorry is the fool who trades his
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Soul for a corvette thinks he'll get the girl he'll only
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Get the mechanic what's missing he's
-|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| -|-----11---x-x-x----9----9-----12----12----12----12-11-x-x-x-x-x--x-x--x-x--| -|--8---8---x-x-x--8-8--8-8-----12----12-12-12-12-12-11-x-x-x-x-x--x-x--x-x--| -|-10-------x-x-x-10---10----14----14----14----14----11-x-x-x-x-x--x-x--x-x--| -|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| -|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Living a day he'll soon forget that's
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One more time around the sun is going down the
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Moon is out but he's drunk and shouting putting people down he's
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Pissing he's living a day he'll soon for-
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-get
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Counts his money every morning
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The only thing that keeps him horny
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Locked in a giant house that's alarming the
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Townsfolk they all laugh
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Sorry is the fool who trades his love for hi-rise rent
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Seems the more you make equals the loneliness you get and it's
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Fitting he's barely living a
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Day he'll soon forget that's
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One more time around and there is not a sound he's
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Lying dead clutching Benjamins never put the money down he's
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Stiffening we're all whistling a man we'll soon forget
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