: 5 Days In May - Blue Rodeo : ------------- : Words and Music by: Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor : : Key: Em : : Intro: : : : : Verse: : : They met in a hurricane : : Standing in the shelter out of the rain : : She tucked a note into his hand : : Later on they took his car : : Drove on down where the beaches are : : He wrote her name in the sand : : Never even let go of her hand : : Somehow they stayed that way : For those 5 days in May : Made all the stars around them shine : Funny how you can look in vain : Living on nerves and such sweet pain : The loneliness that cuts so fine : To find the face you've seen a thousand times : : Chorus: : : Sometimes the world begins : : To set you up on your feet again : : It wipes the tears from your eyes : : How will you ever know : : The way that circumstances go : : Always going to hit you by surprise : : I know my past : : You were there : : In everything I've done : : You are the one : : Looking back it's hard to tell : Why they stood while others fell : Spend your life working it out : All I know is one cloudy day : They both just ran away : Rain on the windshield heading South : She loved the lines around his mouth : : (Chorus) : : Notes: : Use an alternating bass/strum pattern, except for last four lines of : chorus (from "I know my past...") where the chords are finger-plucked : on strings 2 through 5 only. Those chords are: : Am X0221X : G/B X2000X : C X3201X : Em7/C X3243X
