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Song title:      Hold On Hope
Original Album:  Hold On Hope (EP)

Words and Music by Robert Pollard
Copyright © 2005 Needmore Songs (BMI)
Published by Songs Of Universal Inc.

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


INTRO:  [Play: Guitar Figure 1]

[play: Guitar Figure 1]


Guitar Figure 1

  E               F#               G
|-0---0---0---0---2---2---2---2--|-3---3---3---3------------------|
|-0---0---0---0---2---2---2---2--|-3---3---3---3------------------|
|-1---1---1---1---3---3---3---3--|-4---4---4---4------------------|
|-2---2---2---2---4---4---4---4--|-5---5---5---5-----------0---2--|
|-2---2---2---2---4---4---4---4--|-5---5---5---5---2---4----------|
|-0---0---0---0------------------|-3---3---3---3------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


  E               F#               G
|-0---0---0---0---2---2---2---2--|-3---3---3---3------------------|
|-0---0---0---0---2---2---2---2--|-3---3---3---3------------------|
|-1---1---1---1---3---3---3---3--|-4---4---4---4------------------|
|-2---2---2---2---4---4---4---4--|-5---5---5---5-----------0---2--|
|-2---2---2---2---4---4---4---4--|-5---5---5---5---2---4----------|
|-0---0---0---0------------------|-3---3---3---3------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


|-3---3---3---3------------------|--------------------------------|
|-3---3---3---3---------------2--|-4------------------------------|
|-4---4---4---4---0---2---4------|--------------------------------|
|-5---5---5---5------------------|--------------------------------|
|-5---5---5---5------------------|--------------------------------|
|-3---3---3---3------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

                                           Every...

VERSE:
Chords:
B    799877    E    022100
C#m  x46654    Ebm  x68876

B                 C#m                  E               Ebm
  Every street is     dark and folding   out mysteriously
E                            C#m
  Well, that's the chance we take
   B                  C#m
To be always working,     reaching out for
E                      Ebm
  A hand that we can't see


CHORUS:
Chords:
E    x79997    B    799877
F#   244322    G#m  466444

                  E
Everybody's gotta hold on hope 
         F#                B           G#m 
It's the last thing that's holding me 


VERSE:
Chords:
B    799877    E    022100
C#m  x46654    Ebm  x68876

B            C#m
  Invitation     to the last dance
E                       Ebm
  And then it's time to leave
E                     C#m
  That's the price we pay 
          B                 C#m
When we deceive one another     and my mother,
E                  Ebm
  She opens up for free


CHORUS:
Chords:
E    x79997    B    799877
F#   244322    G#m  466444

                  E
Everybody's gotta hold on hope 
         F#                B
It's the last thing that's holding me 


BRIDGE:
Chords:
A    577655    E  x79997
Ebm  x68876    F# 244322
B    799877    G  355433

A                      Ebm
  Look at the talk box     and in frustration 
E                       F#        G       A
  At the station, there hides the cowboy...


GUITAR SOLO [over VERSE chords]:

/  - slide up
\  - slide down


|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|---------8-\-6---4-/-6---6------|---------8-\-6---4-/-6---6------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


|-------------------7-----6------|--------------------------------|
|-----7-\-5---4-5/7---7-----0-0--|--------------------------------|
|-----8-\-6---4-6-------8--------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


|-----------------7/6------------|--------------------------------|
|---7---------7\5-----5---5------|---7____------------------------|
|-8-------6---8\6-------6---6-4--|-4------------------------------|
|-------9---9--------------------|-----------4\2-1----------------|
|--------------------------------|-----------------2--------------|
|--------------------------------|-------------------2_______-2-4-|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|



BRIDGE:
Chords:
A    577655    E  x79997    C#m  466444
Ebm  x68876    F# 244322
B    799877    G  355433

A                      Ebm
  Look at the talk box,    and in frustration 
E                       F#        G       A
  At the station, there hides the cowboy...
                        G#m                  E  F#
His campfire flickering     on the landscape


VERSE:
Chords:
B    799877    E    022100
C#m  x46654    Ebm  x68876

B                      C#m
  But nothing grows on     but time still goes on
E                      Ebm
  Through each life of misery


CHORUS:
Chords:
E    x79997    B    799877    A    577655
F#   244322    G#m  466444

                  E
Everybody's gotta hold on hope
         F#                B           G#m
It's the last thing that's holding me

                  E
Everybody's gotta hold on hope
         F#                B           A
It's the last thing that's holding me

                  E
Everybody's gotta hold on hope
         F#                B
It's the last thing that's holding me


[end on B]