The Reivers
"A Test" (from "Saturday")
John Croslin
Transcribed by Rafael Rodriguez
[*Addition/correction at bottom submitted by Brian Poe]


Chords used:

       E A D G B E

A      0 0 2 2 2 0 

C      0 3 2 0 1 0 

CMaj7  0 3 2 0 3 0


Riff #1:

Heaven sent me as a test....
|-----------------------|
|0-----0-------0----0---|
|4-----5-------7----5---|
|5-----5-------5----5---|
|0-----0-------0----0---|
|-----------------------|



Verse:
A
Some cat by the name of Noel Drake

A
Was around when things started getting fake

A
And just like I do I got all pissed off

       C           C  CMaj7  C
It was my day off


A
Some cold coffee burned me deep inside

A
When around every day I could tan your hide.

A
With some X's and O's on a paper plate 

        C               C  CMaj7  C
Made us both feel great



Chorus:
(Riff #1)
Heaven sent me a test

(Riff #1)
You see my face when you look west

(Riff #1)
And every night at dinner time

(Riff #1)
We watch these gravestones

(Riff #1)
Bide our time.



A
A simple summer ending breeze blows by

A
And I hear your voice and I want to cry

A
Over spilled milk dried on a duplex wall

        C               C  CMaj7  C
When you say that's all


A
Yeah we had our day and it went by fast

A
But these mewling and puking means won't last

A
Yes we did our best and that's all we could

        C               C  CMaj7  C
With our heads of wood


(Chorus)
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*Addition/correction by Brian Poe:
The chords over "Riff #1" are;

        E A D G B E
F/?   1 3 3 0 0 0

A/?   x 0 2 2 0 0

With a little distortion of course.