Song:  I Know It's True But I'm Sorry To Say
Artist:  Violent Femmes
Album: Hallowed Ground

Transcribed by <therapy@student.adelaide.edu.au>

[with minor variations that aren't worth tabbing]


Verse 1:
(Bass Lines)

   C                     C -> F Transition           F
G:|--------|          G:|--------|--------|       G:|--------|
D:|--------|          D:|--------|--------|       D:|--------|
A:|-3--3---|          A:|-3--3-5-|7-8--8--|       A:|-8--8---|
E:|3-------|          E:|3-------|--------|       E:|8-------|

C
I know it's true, but I'm sorry to say yesterdays a day away.
                                      F     C   
Nothing I can do to make it stay like that. Ain't that a fact.

C
I know it's true, but I'm sorry to say
I just can't handle things this way.
                                         F      C
I know it's late, but I'd like to stay a while, see you smile.

Chorus:

Bass Line:

   F                 C
G:|--------|--------|--------|--------|
D:|--------|--------|--------|--------|
A:|-8----88|-8--8753|3---33--|-3--3578|
E:|8---88--|8--8----|---3----|3-------|

   F                 C
G:|--------|--------|--------|--------|
D:|--------|--------|--------|--------|
A:|-8----88|-8--8753|3---33--|-3--3578|
E:|8---88--|8--8----|---3----|3-------|

   F                 C                 G        C        G
G:|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
D:|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
A:|-8----88|-8--8753|3---33--|-3--320-|-----02-|3----320|--------|
E:|8---88--|8---8---|---3----|3-------|3--3----|---3----|3--3--3-|


F                                         C                
Will you meet me in the morning, with the sun fresh on the dew?
F                                       C
Will you meet me in the afternoon, made just for me and you?
F                                         C
Will you meet me in the evening, when the nighttime starts to crawl?
G                             C
Will you meet me in the hall? Will you meet me on the wall?
G
Will you meet me at all?

Verse 2:

C
One more time, one more time.
Shaking up and down my spine.
                              F    C
Jump a rope or skip a line or two. What can I do?

C
One more time, one more time. Color flashing neon signs.
                           F            C [bass slide: A:|8/3|]         
Advertising a friend of my distraction, latest attraction.

Chorus:

F                             C
Oh my body has been punished. Lord, I think I've had enough.
F                            C
Oh my body has been punished with too much and not enough.
F                            C
Oh my body has been punished and my mind can no longer bluff.
G                     C
My mind is so unkind, my mind is so unkind.
G
It keeps me crying all the time.

C
I know it's true, but I'm sorry to say yesterday's a day away.