Courage (Living Free)

Artist: Glen Phillips
Tabbed by Carlo Medina (as of April 14, 2003)

Capo 9 (I finally counted)

I am working totally off of Largo show memory, I have no recordings to base 
either my lyrics or my tabs on so I welcome all corrections!  Two more recent 
shows have helped me make some corrections to the original document.

G        320033
Dsus2/F# 200233 (notated as D/F#)
Cadd9    x32033 (notated as C9)
Em7      022033
Dsus     000233
A7sus4   x02030
Em7      x20030

Basically the chords go G -> Dsus2/F# -> Cadd9 for the verses with a 
variation of the A7sus4 -> Em7 -> Cadd9 for the last line of each verse

Have to listen to the song for the timing as the chords come in odd intervals 
with the words (hard to notate this way)

NOTE – because of space considerations I will notate Dsus2/F# as “D/F#”; 
Cadd9 as “C9”; A7sus4 as “A7”

Live version note – I’ve noticed that sometimes Glen doesn’t sing the first 
“Bring my courage back...” chorus after the first verse, he just does a 
couple of bars of the G -> D/F# -> C9 and then goes straight into the second 
verse.  Okay, here goes...


G    D/F#   C9 (x2)

       G        D/F#        C9
At the start of the conversation
    G         D/F#    C9
I didn’t have much to say
      G                D/F#    C9
I was looking for some inspiration
G            D/F#   C9
You just got in my way
       G          D/F#   C9
Took a shot at an easy target
             G              D/F#     C9
You were too stunned to say anything
             G     D/F#   C9
You were the unsuspecting martyr
         A7           Em7       C9
You were not the most dangerous game

G        D/F#    Em7  Dsus
Bring my courage back now
C9                 G
Bring it back to me
G              D/F#           Em7     Dsus
Tired of being afraid of what I can’t change
      C9
And I want to be living free

        Em7        Dsus       C9
I don’t want to be a prisoner

I want to live free

G    D/F#   C9 (x2), then back into the verses like the first time

Well it could be I was mistaken
Could be that I deceived myself
But it’s hard to understand somebody
Who doesn’t want to understand himself
There’s an ocean of unlatched windows    (could be “notion” not “ocean”)
And a world of unlocked homes
The only reason anybody still feels safe
Is most people still knock on the door 

Bring my courage back now
Bring it back to me
Tired of being afraid of what I can’t change
And I want to be living free

I don’t want to be a prisoner (x3 or...)
(bound in these chains) – Glen started singing these two lines
(a slave to my fears)   - at later shows, using same progression as before
Just want to be living free


Bridge uses (as far as I can tell)
Am7        x02010
G          320033
Cadd9 (C9) x32033    
Dsus       xx0233

Am7              G
Though we all return to dust   (*or is it “though the old”?)
           C9
There’s a lot of us
      Dsus
In an awful rush to

(then as before)

By the end of the inquisition
I was brought back from the brink
Torquemada and a couple of friends got together
All went out for drinks
Left me here in this empty dungeon
While they’re living it up downtown
As if they never even existed
Doesn’t make much difference now

Bring my courage back now
Bring it back to me
Tired of being afraid of what I can’t change
And I want to be living free

I don’t want to be a prisoner (x3 or...)
(afraid of these chains)
(slave to my fears)
Just want to be living free

Well some take the road to Damascus
Some take the road to hell
I’ll take highway 1 to the evergreens
And everything will turn out well