TCS Guitar Tabs: "January's Little Joke"

*This is how I play the song, I'm not sure if it's right.  If you strum 
quickly and do some extemporaneous stuff, it sounds great.  In short, put 
your heart into it, lads......

INTRO - E (strum up on the first chord and go into furious strumming, 
it sounds good like that)  
E5 (this isn't the right name of the chord, see below)
A
E5

Ok, so the intro is E	E5   E   A   E5
(You have to listen to the disc to get the timing down)

E5...     E	      E5
All I can hear is the clucking of tongues
      E
I can see them
E5  		      E
Plucking at crumbs of conversations
  E5
A drunk uncle's breath
E   	    E5
And they're touching my hand

A		  E
As now turns into then
A		 E
Dream turns into dreamt
A		 E
Spend turns into spent
B		       A        E
One turns into one too many say when

E    E5

	   E    E5
And in the blue corner
           E	    E5
Crouches a mediocre joker
	   E
The laughs are on me
		   E5			 E
And the arch of my back cracks under the weight

of the wisecracks
         E5
Stop the clock - I want to get off

	 A		 E
Though I knew what argue meant
      A			E
And I knew what punish meant
      A			  E
And I knew what embarrass meant
	B		A
I never found out what achieve meant

B	A (twice)

    B
All heaven broke loose
      A				 E
But I knew they had something to hide
          B
They were turning the page
      A			     E
But I glimpsed the very last line

(picking)
       A		 E
Now we raised a toast to celebrate
     A		     E
As December's embers fade
	  A  		 E
But every fire is just a hoax
    B	  A          E
For January's little joke

(Keep picking on E, E5, and A and fade out)

E - 022100
E5 - 020200  (don't know the name of this one, sorry)
A - 002220
B - 224442

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