First Of August Uke tab by Joan Shelley and Daniel Martin Moore

Intro: F#  G#m  B  F#  E

G#m      B
Oh, the first of August
                             F#     E
Lying on the cold leaf ground
G#m      B
Pulling out of focus
                             C#           C#m
Colors slowly breaking down
                 G#m
Down the road
                     E     B  E       B       F#
You've been drawing pictures of

B
Pray you go with the sweet wind
                                           F#    C#
There'll be trees there that you know
E    G#m               B
So careful not to harden
                            F#   C#m
Sure to make a letter home
           B    G#m
Down the road
                   E    B
Where you shining
         C#    B                 F#
Were last seen at the fork

B          G#m                   B
Mama knows you gotta go, son
                                               F#    E
Sister's gonna miss you when you go
                G#m
Down the road
                     E    B    E
You've been drawing
B           F#
Line by line
          B   G#m                E         B   E
And the poet has been writing you
B                       
Writing you down

F#   E  B   E  B  F# E
B  F#  E

         B
If it wears harder
                             F#     C#
Still steps in a winding dark
              G#m
There is music
                   E    B      E    B
That you're raising

              G#m
And your own
         E   B
Little baby
E         B
Is waiting

        F#m
And don't you think that you were right
                                             D#     F#
And don't you think that you were right

B                                   B
Mama knows you gotta go, son
                                              F#   C#m
Sister's gonna miss you when you go
B          G#m               B
See the sun on the other side

On the first of August