        The Decemberists are a folk rock band which formed in 2000 in Portland, Oregon, United States. The band currently consists of Colin Meloy (vocals, guitar), Chris Funk (guitar, mandolin, dulcimer, pedal steel guitar), Jenny Conlee (organ, piano, accordion), Nate Query (electric bass, acoustic bass, cello) and John Moen (drums). Notable former members include Rachel Blumberg (drums, vocals) and Jesse Emerson (bass). The band's most recent album, The King Is Dead was released on 17 January 2011.  

        Read more about The Decemberists on Last.fm.
    

Intro

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 G
 And from my ten floor tenement
                       Am
 Where once our bodies lay
                           C
 How I longed to hear you say
 Cm                         G
 No they'll never catch me now
 Cm
 No they'll never catch me
 Am                      F
 No they cannot catch me now
    E               F
 We will escape somehow
 Fm
 Somehow, oh

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 (Interlude:)
 C B C B G

 G
 And I dreamt one night
                   F#
 You were there in form
       G
 Hands held high
       F#
 In uniform
 G
 Oh
 F#
 Oh

 Finish off on "intro" part

The Bagman's Gambit

Cmaj7         Em Bm
I'm an engine driver
Cmaj7          G    D
On a long run, on a long run
Cmaj7          Em   Bm
Would I were beside her
Cmaj7             G      D
She's a long one, such a long one

Cmaj7            G       D     Cmaj7 Em Bm
And if you don't love me let me go
Cmaj7            G       D     Cmaj7 Em Bm
And if you don't love me let me go

Cmaj7        Em  Bm
I'm a county lineman
Cmaj7            G      D
On the highline, on the highline
Cmaj7         Em   Bm
So will be my grandson
Cmaj7                G      D
There are powerlines in our bloodlines

Cmaj7            G       D     Cmaj7 Em Bm
And if you don't love me let me go
Cmaj7            G       D     Cmaj7 Em Bm
And if you don't love me let me go

G          Bm                Em
And I am a writer, writer of fictions
         C                   G
I am the heart that you call home
                 Bm         Em
And I've written pages upon pages
          C               F E
Trying to rid you from my bones
   F E
My bones

My bones

(Interlude:)
Cmaj7 Em Bm Cmaj7 G D
Cmaj7 Em Bm Cmaj7 G D

Cmaj7       Em Bm
I'm a money lender
Cmaj7           G    D
I have fortunes upon fortunes
Cmaj7            Em Bm
Take my hand for tender
Cmaj7         G    D
I am tortured ever tortured

Cmaj7            G       D     Cmaj7 Em Bm
And if you don't love me let me go
Cmaj7            G       D     Cmaj7 Em Bm
And if you don't love me let me go

G          Bm                Em
And I am a writer, writer of fictions
         C                   G
I am the heart that you call home
                 Bm         Em
And I've written pages upon pages
          C               G
Trying to rid you from my bones
       Bm
I Am A writer
     Em                C     G
I am all that you have home, home
                 Bm         Em
And I've written pages upon pages
          C               F E
Trying to rid you from my bones
   F E
My bones

My bones

Cmaj7             G       D     
(And if you don't love me let me go)
Cmaj7            G       D     
And if you don't love me let me go
Cmaj7             G       D     
(And if you don't love me let me go)
Cmaj7            G       D     Cmaj7
And if you don't love me let me go

The Engine Driver

E   E   E   E

E                G
Sixteen military wives
           A                               E
Thirty-two softly focused brightly colored eyes
                       G
Staring at the natural tan
           A                                E
Thirty-two gently clutching wrinkled little hands
A                 B
Seventeen company men
             C#m              D            A
Out of which only twelve will make it back again
E                          G
Sergeant sends a letter to five
         A                                        E
Military wives as tears drip down from ten little eyes
B
Cheer them onto their rivals

      A       E
Cause America can
    A       E         B
And America can't say no
    A       E
And America does
   A       E         B
If America says it's so

It's so
        F#m             A
And the anchorperson on TV
     E
Goes la de da de da

E                 G
Fifteen celebrity minds
              A                                 E
Leading their fifteen sordid wretched checkered lives
E                              G
Will they find the solution in time
            A                                 E
Using their fifteen pristine moderate liberal minds
A                B
Eighteen academy chairs
             C#m        D           A
Out of which only seven really even care
E                       G
Doling out a garland to five
          A                                 E
Celebrity minds, they're humbly taken by surprise
B
Cheer them onto their rivals

      A       E
Cause America can
    A       E         B
And America can't say no
    A       E
And America does
   A       E         B
If America says it's so

It's so
        F#m             A
And the anchorperson on TV
     E
Goes la de da de da de dade dade da

La de da de da de dade dade da

(Interlude:)
E G A E
E G A E

A                 B
Fourteen cannibal kings
          C#m               D                A
Wondering blithely what the dinner bell will bring
E                 G
Fifteen celebrity minds
            A                             E
Served on a leafy bed of sixteen military wives
B
Cheer them onto their rivals

      A       E
Cause America can
    A       E         B
And America can't say no
    A       E
And America does
   A       E         B
If America says it's so

It's so
        F#m             A
And the anchorperson on TV
     E
Goes la de da de da de dade dade da

La de da de da de dade dade da

La de da de da de dade dade

Da de da de da de dade dade

Da de da de da de dade dade da

E G A E
E G A E
E G A E

16 Military Wives

Am
Here on these cliffs of Dover
Em
So high you can't see over
Am
And while your head is spinning
Em
Hold tight, it's just beginning


Am
You come from parents wanton
Em
A childhood rough and rotten
Am
I come from wealth and beauty
Em           G
Untouched by work or duty


    C      Em       F     G
And oh, my love, my love
    C      Em       F
And oh, my love, my love
   E              Am 
We both go down together


Am
I found you a tattooed tramp
Em
A dirty daughter from the labor camps
Am
I laid you down in the grass of a clearing
Em                G
You wept but your soul was willing


    C      Em       F     G
And oh, my love, my love
    C      Em       F
And oh, my love, my love
   E              F
We both go down together


                             Am
And my parents will never consent to this love
F               G    E
And I hold your hand


Am
Meet me on my vast veranda
Em
My sweet untouched Miranda
Am
And while the seagulls are crying
Em              G
We fall but our souls are flying



    C      Em       F     G
And oh, my love, my love
    C      Em       F     G
And oh, my love, my love
    C      Em       F     G
And oh, my love, my love
    C      Em       F
And oh, my love, my love
   E            Am
We both go down together

We Both Go Down Together

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Of Angels And Angles

Intro:
Gmaj7 (x2)


Cmaj7         Em Bm
I'm an engine driver
Cmaj7          G    D
On a long run, on a long run
Cmaj7          Em   Bm
Would I were beside her
Cmaj7             G      D
She's a long one, such a long one

Cmaj7            G       D     Cmaj7 Em Bm
And if you don't love me let me go
Cmaj7            G       D     Cmaj7 Em Bm
And if you don't love me let me go

Cmaj7        Em  Bm
I'm a county lineman
Cmaj7            G      D
On the highline, on the highline
Cmaj7         Em   Bm
So will be my grandson
Cmaj7                G      D
There are powerlines in our bloodlines

Cmaj7            G       D     Cmaj7 Em Bm
And if you don't love me let me go
Cmaj7            G       D     Cmaj7 Em Bm
And if you don't love me let me go

G          Bm                Em
And I am a writer, writer of fictions
         C                   G
I am the heart that you call home
                 Bm         Em
And I've written pages upon pages
          C               F E
Trying to rid you from my bones
   F E
My bones

My bones

(Interlude:)
Cmaj7 Em Bm Cmaj7 G D
Cmaj7 Em Bm Cmaj7 G D

Cmaj7       Em Bm
I'm a money lender
Cmaj7           G    D
I have fortunes upon fortunes
Cmaj7            Em Bm
Take my hand for tender
Cmaj7         G    D
I am tortured ever tortured

Cmaj7            G       D     Cmaj7 Em Bm
And if you don't love me let me go
Cmaj7            G       D     Cmaj7 Em Bm
And if you don't love me let me go

G          Bm                Em
And I am a writer, writer of fictions
         C                   G
I am the heart that you call home
                 Bm         Em
And I've written pages upon pages
          C               G
Trying to rid you from my bones
       Bm
I am a writer
     Em                C     G
I am all that you have home, home
                 Bm         Em
And I've written pages upon pages
          C               F E
Trying to rid you from my bones
   F E
My bones

My bones

Cmaj7             G       D     
(And if you don't love me let me go)
Cmaj7            G       D     
And if you don't love me let me go
Cmaj7             G       D     
(And if you don't love me let me go)
Cmaj7            G       D     Cmaj7
And if you don't love me let me go

Engine Driver

Intro: Cmaj7  G (x4) 

  Cmaj7
In matching blue raincoats, our shoes were our showboats
   G
we kicked around
     Cmaj7
From stairway to station, we made a sensation
         G
with the gadabout crowd
    Cmaj7
And oh what a bargain, we're two easy targets
        G
For the old men at the off-tracks
       Cmaj7
Who've paid in palaver and crumpled old dollars
         G
Which we squirreled away 
       Em                    Am        Asus2  Am
In our rat-trap hotel by the freeway
       C                 Cmaj7-C    G
And we slept in Sundays

     Cmaj7
Your parents were anxious, your cool was contagious
       G
At the old school
    Cmaj7
You left without leaving a note for your grieving
      G
Sweet mother while your brother was so cruel
    Cmaj7
And here in the alleys your spirits were rallied
       G
As you learned quick to make a fast buck
   Cmaj7
In bathrooms and ballrooms, on dumpsters and heirlooms
   G
We bit our tongues
           Em                               Am
Sucked our lips into our lungs 'til we were falling
             C
Such was our calling


    Em          D         Am                  C
And here in our hollow we fused like a family
    Em         D         C
But I will not mourn for you
   Em           D          Am                     C
So take up your makeup and pocket your pills away
      Am                   Cm
We're kings among runaways
       G
On the bus mall
      Cm          G
We're down on the bus mall

Intro x2

Cmaj7
Among all the urchins and old chinese merchants
       G
Of the old town
   Cmaj7
We reigned at the pool hall with one iron cue ball
       G
And we never let the bastards get us down
       Cmaj7
And we laughed off the quick tricks, the old men with limp dicks
       G
On the colonnades of the waterfront park
   Cmaj7
As four in the morning came on cold and boring
   G
We huddled close
       Em                 Am           Asus2   Am
In the bus stop enclosure enfolding
                  C        Cmaj7-C
Our hands tightly holding

    Em          D         Am                  C
But here in our hollow we fused like a family
    Em         D         C
But I will not mourn for you
   Em           D          Am                     C
So take up your makeup and pocket your pills away
      Am                   Cm
We're kings among runaways
       G
On the bus mall
      Cm          G
We're down on the bus mall
      Cm          G
We're down on the bus mall (At this point, Guitar 2 comes in with Intro riff)
Cm          G
Down on the bus mall
D Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 G
Ohhhh

On The Bus Mall

G
I fell on the playing field
Em
The work of an errant heel
C
The din of the crowd and the loud commotion
Am             D
When deafening silence and stopped motion
G
The season was almost done
Em
We'd managed it twelve to one
C
So far I had known no humiliation
Am             D
In front of my friends and close relation

Cmaj7                        G
There's my father looking on
Cmaj7                            G
And there's my girlfriend arm in arm
         Em
With the captain of the other team
    C
And all of this is clear to me
     D                         C
They condescend to fix on me a frown
Am       D
How they love
    G
The sporting life

G
And father had had such hopes
Em
For a son who would take the ropes
C
And fufill all his old athletic aspirations
Am             D
But apparently now there's some complications
G
But while I am lying here
Em
Trying to fight the tears
C
I'll prove to the crowd that I come out stronger
Am                     D
Though I think I might lie here a little longer

Cmaj7                                      G
'Cause there's my coach, he's looking down
Cmaj7                                  G
The disappointment in his knitted brow
  Em
I should have known he thinks again,
   C
"I never should have put him in"
   D                           C
He turns to load the lemonade away
    Am          D
And breathes in deep
    G
The sporting life
    Em
The sporting life
    C
The sporting life
       G
How he loves


Cmaj7                        G
There's my father looking on
Cmaj7                            G
And there's my girlfriend arm in arm
         Em
With the captain of the other team
    C
And all of this is clear to me
     D                         C
They condescend to fix on me a frown
Am       D
How they love
    G
The sporting life
    Em
The sporting life
    C
The sporting life
         G
How they love

The Sporting Life

Am                          C
Eli, the barrow boy Of the old town
 

Am                               C
Sells coal and marigolds  As he cries out
 
G            Am
All down the  day


Am                         C
Below the tamaracks  He is crying


Am                              C
Corn cobs and candle wax for the buying

G            Am
All down the day
 



F                                    C
Would I could afford to buy my love a fine robe


F                             Am
Made of gold and silk Arabian  thread

 
F                                      C
But she is dead and gone and lying in a pine grove
 
   G                             Am
And I must push my barrow all the day
 
    G                            Am 
And I must push my barrow all the day
 


Am                              C
Eli, the barrow boy  When they found him
 

Am                               C
Dressed all in corduroy He had drowned in

    G               Am
The river down the way

Am                           C
They laid his body down in a  churchyard
 
Am                                      C
But still when the moon is out With his  push cart
 

    G             Am
He calls down the  day
 

 

F                                      C 
Would I could afford to buy my love a fine gown
 
F                            Am
Made of gold and silk Arabian  thread


F                                     C
But I am dead and gone and lying in a church ground
 
   G                              Am
And still I push my barrow all the day
 
G                              Am
Still I push my barrow all the day”

Eli The Barrow Boy

Am                                                                 E
We are two Mariners, our ship's sole survivors, in this belly of a whale
E                        
It's ribs our ceiling beams, it's guts our carpeting, I guess we have some time 
   Am
to kill. You may not remember me, I was a child of three, and you a lad of 
E
eighteen. But I remember you, and I will relate to you, how our histories 
       Am
interweave.
Fm                                       Am   Fm
At the time you were a rake and a rastabout. Spending all your money on the 
            E      Fm E
whores and hounds. Oh-oh 
Am                                       
You had a charming air, all cheap and debonair, my widowed mother found so 
E                                              
sweet. And so she took you in, her sheets still warm with him, now filled 
                    Am
with filth and fowl disease. 
Fm                                               Am    Fm
As time wore on you proved a debt-ridden drunken mess. Leaving my mother a 
                  E      Fm E
poor consumptive wretch. Oh-oh
Am                                                                         
And then you disappeared. Your gambling arrears, the only thing you left 
E                                    
behind. And then the magistrate, reclaimed our small estate, and my poor 
                Am
mother lost her mind. 
Fm                                            Am    Fm
Then one day in spring my dear, sweet mother died. But before she did I took 
                       E     Fm E
her hand as she dying cried, Oh-oh, 
 Fm                                                  Am         
"Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his fingers to splinters, 
                            Fm
drag him to a hole until he wakes up, naked, clawing at the ceiling of his 
E      Fm E
grave, oh-oh." (Little Am fill right here)
Am                                            
It took me fifteen years to swallow all my tears, among the urchins in the 
E
street. And then a priory, took pity and hired me to keep their vestry nice 
     Am
and neat. 
Fm (c-ish)            Am(c-ish)      Fm(c-ish)
But never once in the employ of these holy men, did I ever once turn my mind 
                    E(c-ish)  Fm E
from the thought of revenge. Oh-oh. 
Am(harsh double strum for this part)
One night I overheard, the prior exchanging words with a penetant whaler from 
  E(smooth)  E(harsh double strum)
the sea. The captain of his ship, who matched you toe to tip, was known for a 
       Am(smooth)
wanton cruelty. 
Fm                                          Am
The following day I shipped to sea with the privateer. And in the whistle of 
                        E     Fm E
the wind I could almost hear, oh-oh.
 Fm                                                   Am
"Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his fingers to splinters, 
                             Fm                     
drag him to a whole until he wakes up, naked, clawing at the ceiling of his 
E
grave. 
C                         G           C                      G     Am
There is one thing I must say to you, as you sail across the sea. Always your 
                  Em        Fm                         E
mother will watch over you, as you avenge this wicked deed.


Middle section: Am-E-Fm-E


Am                                                                       E
And then one fateful night, we had you in our sights, after 20 months at sea. 
                                           
Your starboard flank abeam, I was getting my muskets clean, when came this 
               Am
rumbling from beneath. 
Fm(c-ish)                       Am(c-ish)           Fm(c-ish)
The ocean shook, the sky went black and the captain quailed. And before us 
                               E     (candenza)  Fm E
grew the angry jaws of a giant whale, oh-oh, oh, oh-oh
Am                                                             
Don't know how I survived, the crew all was chewed alive, I must have slipped 
            E                                              
between his teeth. But oh what providence, what divine intelligence, that you 
                          Am
should survive as well as me. 
Fm                                                     Am    Fm
It gives my heart great joy to see your eyes fill with fear. So lean in close 
                                         E     Fm E
and I will whisper the last words you'll hear, oh-oh

Mariner's Revenge

Am
Four score years
Am                  D          Am
Living down in this rain swept town
Am
Sea salt tears
Am                    D          Am
Swimming round as the rain comes down

G                         Am
Mr. Postman, do you have a letter for me?
G                         Am
Mr. Postman, do you have a letter for me?
  F
A letter for me
        Am
From my own true love
G
Lost at sea
        Am
Lost at sea

From My Own True Love (lost At Sea)

Picaresque

Riff :

A-----2-3---|
E-3-5-------|
C---------2-|
G-----------|

Riff

D C G riff x2

D C G riff
Angel, won't you call me?
D C G riff
Could I be the only
D C G riff
though I am a lost cause,
D C G riff
Angel, won't you call me?

D C G riff
Waiting for a sweet breeze,
D C G riff
read it in the tea-leaves
D C G riff
Saw them crown you May Queen
D C G riff
Heard you sing the sweetest thing

Bridge G G/F#

Em G G/F#
But I been so unbridled
Em G
I fled at the face of my rival
D       
when I felt his breath.
C        Cm       
at the back of my neck
G       
Angel, won't you call me?

Riff

D C G riff x4

D C G riff
So here I am in corduroy
D C G riff
Catch it in your Polaroid
D C G riff
Thought it was an off night,
D C G riff
caught in such a warm light

D C G riff
But, Angel, won't you call me?
D C G riff
Could I be the only
D C G riff
though I am a lost cause
D C G riff
Angel, won't you call me?

Bridge G G/F#

Em G G/F#
Cause I been so unbridled
Em G
I fled at the face of my rival
D       
when I felt his breath.
C        Cm       
at the back of my neck
G       
Angel, won't you call me?

End on G

Angel Won't You Call Me


Come they told me 
               A
Pa rum pum pum pum 

A new born King to see 

Pa rum pum pum pum 

E
 Our finest gifts to bring

Pa rum pum pum pum 

To lay before the king 
   G           D
Pa rum pum pum pum, 
            A
rum pum pum pum, 
            E    A
rum pum pum puuuum 

A
Little baby 

Pa rum pum pum pum 

I am a poor boy too 

Pa rum pum pum pum 
E
 I have no gift to bring 

Pa rum pum pum pum 

To lay before the King 
   G           D 
Pa rum pum pum pum, 
            A
rum pum pum pum, 
            E    A 
rum pum pum puuuum 

A
Mary nodded 

Pa rum pum pum pum 

The ox and lamb kept time 

Pa rum pum pum pum 
E
I played my drum for Him 

Pa rum pum pum pum 

I played my best for Him 
   G           D
Pa rum pum pum pum, 
            A
rum pum pum pum, 
            E
rum pum pum pa

E         A
Me and my drum (x3)

Little Drummer Boy

Alternative Rock X-mas

D

D                C          G           D
My crane wife arrived at my door in the moonlight
    C               G                      D
All star-bright and tongue tied I took her in
D                   C          G             D
We were married and bells rang sweet for our wedding
        C           G                  D
And our bedding was ready when we fell in


Chorus:

Em                  A                       Em
Sound the keening bell and see it's painted red
             A                        G
Soft as fontanel, the feathers in the thread
                  A      C         G
When all I ever meant to do was to keep you
   D              G              D           C  D
My crane wife, my crane wife, my crane wife


D                   C        G      D
We were poorly, our fortunes fading hourly
    C       G                           D
And how she vowed me she could bring it back
D                        C        G             D
But I was greedy I was vain and I forced her to weaving
   C            G                     D
On cold loom in closed room with down wove
Em                  A                       Em
Sound the keening bell and see it's painted red
             A                        G
Soft as fontanel, the feathers in the thread
                  A      C         G
When all I ever meant to do was to keep you
   D              G              D           C  D
My crane wife, my crane wife, my crane wife
Em                                F
There's a bend in the wind and it rakes at my heart
Em                                  F
There is blood in the thread and it rakes at my heart

G             C    G   C  G   C  C
Rakes at my heart, heart, heart, heart


G  G  C  C (x2)


G      C      G      C      G      C    G      C
Heart, heart, heart, heart, heart, heart, heart, heart
   D
My crane wife

Crane Wife 2

D               G
When we arrive, Sons & Daughters
D                    G
We'll make our homes on the water
D               G
We'll build our walls aluminum
D               G
We'll fill our mouths with cinnamon now

Sons And Daughters

intro (great lead by acordion)
Am C E

Am     C
Ramblin' where to begin
G
I taste the summer on your peppery skin
Am         C
Been saved the warmer the waves
G
I felt a slip into a watery grave
Am C E 2x
(back vocals) ooh la ladi dadi da orsmth.

Am      C
My girl, linen and curls
E
Lips parting like a flag all unfurled
Am         C
She's grand the bend of her hand
E
Digging deep into the sweep of the sand
Am C E 2x
(back vocals) ooh la ladi dadi da orsmth.

chorus:
G      Am      G                Am
Summer arrives with a length of lights
G     Am     F
Summer blows away
C                G              Am     C E
And quietly gets swallowed by a wave
                             Am   C E 
It gets swallowed by a wave 


Waylay the din of the day
Boats bobbing in the blue of the bay
In deep far beneath all the dead sailors
Slowly slipping to sleep

My girl, linen and curls
Lips parting like a flag all unfurled
She's grand the bend of her hand
Digging deep into the sweep of the sand

Summer arrives with a length of lights
Summer blows away
And quietly gets swallowed by a wave
It gets swallowed by a wave...

Summersong

Intro:  C - Cmaj7 - G / C - Cmaj7 - G


      C-Cmaj7     G
You belong to the gang

        C-Cmaj7              G
And you say you can't break away

        C-Cmaj7      G          C-Cmaj7  G
But I'm here with my hands on my heart

    C-Cmaj7        G
Our families can't agree

         C-Cmaj7            G
I'm your brother's sworn enemy

         C-Cmaj7        G       C-Cmaj7  G
But I'll shout out my love to the stars

   Am           F             Dm           G
So wait for the stone on your window, your window

Am          F       Dm        G
Wait by the car and we'll go, we'll go


C - Cmaj7 - G x2

     C-Cmaj7       G
When first we laid eyes

  C-Cmaj7           G
I swore to no compromise

       C-Cmaj7    G         C-Cmaj7  G
'Til I felt my caress on your skin

          C-Cmaj7        G
Well, how soon we were betrayed

     C-Cmaj7         G
Your sister gave us away

         C-Cmaj7     G    C-Cmaj7  G
And your father came all unhinged

   Am           F             Dm           G
So wait for the stone on your window, your window

Am          F       Dm        G
Wait by the car and we'll go, we'll go

    C      Em       Am
But Oh, Valencia-ah-ah!

          F                       C
With your blood still warm on the ground

  Em        Am
Valencia-ah-ah!

      F
And I swear to the stars

     Dm                   G
I'll burn this whole city down, oh oh ohhh


C - Cmaj7 - G x4


      C-Cmaj7     G
All I heard was a shout

        C-Cmaj7            G
Of your brother calling me out

        C-Cmaj7    G        C-Cmaj7  G
And you ran like a fool to my side

         C-Cmaj7      G
Well the shot, it hit hard

         C-Cmaj7               G
And your frame went limp in my arms

        C-Cmaj7 G               C-Cmaj7  G
And the lull of love was your dying cry

   Am           F             Dm           G
So wait for the stone on your window, your window

Am          F       Dm        G
Wait by the car and we'll, go we'll go

    C     Em        Am
But Oh, Valencia-ah-ah!

          F                       C
With your blood still warm on the ground

  Em        Am
Valencia-ah-ah!

         F                    C
And I'll burn this whole city down

  Em        Am
Valencia-ah-ah!

          F                         C
With your blood gettin' cold on the ground

  Em        Am
Valencia-ah-ah!

      F
And I swear to the stars

     Dm                   G                C
I'll burn this whole city down, oh oh oh

O Valencia!

D          A             G    
  And under the boughs unbound
D               A        G            
  All clothed in a snowy shroud
D            A            G    
  She had no heart so hardened
D          A            G        
  All under the boughs unbound

D            A       G
  Each feather, it fell from skin
D               A         G
  Till threadbare, she grew thin
D            A          G
  How were my eyes so blinded?
D              A              G
  Each feather, it fell from skin


           D             A            G     
And I will hang my head, hang my head low
(x2)


D          A              G
  A gray sky, a bitter stain
D             A           G
  A rain cloud, a crane on wing
D         A            G
  All out beyond horizon
D            A        G
  A gray sky, a bitter stain
          
 
          D             A           G
And I will hang my head, hang my head low.
(x5)

Crane Wife 3

G              G
It was a cold night
G              G
And the snow lay low
Em           Em
I pulled my coat tight
Em           Em
Against the falling down
C             C
And the sun was all
C             C
And the sun was all down
C             C
And the sun was all
C             C                    G
And the sun was all down

G             G
I am a poor man
G             G                  Em
I haven't wealth nor fame
Em           Em
I have my two hands
Em           Em               C
And a house to my name
C             C
And the winter's so
C             C
And the winter's so long
C             C
And the winter's so
C             C                 D
And the winter's so long

D             D                D                    D
And all the stars were crashing 'round
D             D                D                    D
As I laid eyes on what I'd found


It was a white crane
It was a helpless thing
Upon a red stain
With an arrow its wing
And it called and cried
And it called and cried so
And it called and cried
And it called and cried so

And all the stars were crashing 'round
As I laid eyes on what I'd found
My crane wife, my crane wife
My crane wife, my crane wife

Now I helped her
And I dressed her wounds
And how I held her
Beneath the rising moon
And she stood to fly
And she stood to fly away
And she stood to fly
She stood to fly away

And all the stars were crashing 'round
As I laid eyes on what I'd found
My crane wife, my crane wife
My crane wife, my crane wife

Crane Wife 1

C                        Am
Heart-carved tree trunk, Yankee bayonet
C                   Am
A sweetheart left behind
C                         Am
Far from the hills of the sea-swelled Carolinas
C                        Am
That's where my true love lies

C Am C Am
(oh, oh, oh, ooohh, oh oh oh...)

C                    Am
Look for me when the sun-bright swallow
      C                   Am
Sings upon the birch bough high
C                                  Am
But you are in the ground with the voles and the weevils
     C                   Am
All a'chew upon bones so dry

Chorus:
A            C
But when the sun breaks
A          C        G
To no more bulletin battle-cry
A             C
Then will you make a grave
A             F
For I will be home then
          G
I will be home then
          F
I will be home then
          G
I will be home then
   C
Then


When I was a girl how the hills of Oconee
Made a seam to hem me in
There at the fair when our eyes caught, careless
Got my heart right pierced by a pin

But oh, did you see all the dead of Manassas
All the bellies and the bones and the bile
Though I lingered here with the blankets barren
And my own belly big with child

But when the sun breaks
To no more bulletin battle-cry
Then will you make a grave
For I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then
I will be home then

--------------------------------------------
F                               G
Stems and bones and stone walls too
              F
keep me from you
                      E
Scaly skin is all too few
   G               C
To keep me from you
-------------------------------------------

*Returns to regular chord pattern (C Am C Am):*

But oh my love, though our bodies may be parted
Though our skin may not touch skin
Look for me with the sun-bright sparrow
I will come on the breath of the wind

C Am C Am
(oh, oh, oh, ooohh, oh, oh, oh...)

End = Am

Yankee Bayonet

G
It was a cold night
                 Em
And the snow lay low
I pulled my coat tight
                    C
Against the falling down
And the sun was all
                    G
And the sun was all down
Em
And the sun was all
                    C       G
And the sun was all down

       G
I am a poor man
                     Em
I haven't wealth nor fame
I have my two hands
                  C
And a house to my name
And the winter's so
                    G
And the winter's so long
Em
And the winter's so
                    C
And the winter's so long

G    Gm      G
And all the stars were crashing around
As I laid eyes on what I'd found
      
	     G
It was a white crane
                  Em
It was a helpless thing
Upon a red stain
                  C
With an arrow its wing
And it called and cried
                        G
And it called and cried so
Em
And it called and cried
                        C    G
And it called and cried so

G  Gm  G
And all the stars were crashing around
As I laid eyes on what I'd found
G                           Em
My crane wife, my crane wife
C                           G
My crane wife, my crane wife

Now I helped her
And I dressed her wounds
And how I held her
Beneath the rising moon
And she stood to fly
And she stood to fly away
And she stood to fly
She stood to fly away

And all the stars were crashing around
As I laid eyes on what I'd found
My crane wife, my crane wife
My crane wife, my crane wife

Dadd4-Cadd2-G-Em-Asus4-G-A-C

My crane wife arrived at my door in the moonlight
All star bright and tongue-tied I took her in
We were married and bells rang sweet for our wedding
And our bedding was ready when we fell in

The sound of the keening bell
To see its pain erect
Soft as fontanelle
The feathers and the thread
And all I ever meant to do was to keep you
My crane wife
My crane wife
My crane wife

We were poorly, our fortunes fading hourly
And how she loved me, she could bring it back
But I was greedy, I was vain and I forced her to weaving
On a cold loom, in a closed room down the hall

The sound of the keening bell
And to see its pain erect
Soft as fontanelle
The feathers and the thread
And all I ever meant to do was to keep you
My crane wife
My crane wife

|| Em | Em | F | F | Em | Em | F | F ||: G | G | C | C :||
There's a bend in the wind and it rakes at my heart
There is blood in the thread and it rakes at my heart
It rakes at my heart

My crane wife

The Crane Wife 1 And 2

The Decemberists - O Valencia!
------------------------------


Intro:  C - C7 - G / C - Cmaj7 - G


      C       C7     G
You belong to the gang

        C  Cmaj7              G
And you say you can't break away

        C-Cmaj7      G          C-Cmaj7  G
But I'm here with my hands on my heart

    C-Cmaj7        G
Our families can't agree

         C-Cmaj7            G
I'm your brother's sworn enemy

         C-Cmaj7        G       C-Cmaj7  G
But I'll shout out my love to the stars


------------------------------


   Am           F             Dm           G
So wait for the stone on your window, your window

Am          F       Dm        G
Wait by the car and we'll go, we'll go


------------------------------


Intro again:  C - Cmaj7 - G / C - Cmaj7 - G


     C-Cmaj7       G
When first we laid eyes

  C-Cmaj7           G
I swore to no compromise

       C-Cmaj7    G         C-Cmaj7  G
'Til I felt my caress on your skin

          C-Cmaj7        G
Well, how soon we were betrayed

     C-Cmaj7         G
Your sister gave us away

         C-Cmaj7     G    C-Cmaj7  G
And your father came all unhinged


------------------------------


   Am           F             Dm           G
So wait for the stone on your window, your window

Am          F       Dm        G
Wait by the car and we'll go, we'll go


------------------------------


    C      Em       Am
But Oh, Valencia-ah-ah!

          F                       C
With your blood still warm on the ground

  Em        Am
Valencia-ah-ah!

      F
And I swear to the stars

     Dm                   G
I'll burn this whole city down, oh oh ohhh


------------------------------


Intro once again:  C - Cmaj7 - G / C - Cmaj7 - G  x2


      C-Cmaj7     G
All I heard was a shout

        C-Cmaj7            G
Of your brother calling me out

        C-Cmaj7    G        C-Cmaj7  G
And you ran like a fool to my side

         C-Cmaj7      G
Well the shot, it hit hard

         C-Cmaj7               G
And your frame went limp in my arms

        C-Cmaj7 G               C-Cmaj7  G
And the lull of love was your dying cry


------------------------------


   Am           F             Dm           G
So wait for the stone on your window, your window

Am          F       Dm        G
Wait by the car and we'll, go we'll go


------------------------------


    C     Em        Am
But Oh, Valencia-ah-ah!

          F                       C
With your blood still warm on the ground

  Em        Am
Valencia-ah-ah!

         F                    C
And I'll burn this whole city down

  Em        Am
Valencia-ah-ah!

          F                         C
With your blood gettin' cold on the ground

  Em        Am
Valencia-ah-ah!

      F
And I swear to the stars

     Dm                   G                C
I'll burn this whole city down, oh oh oh

O Valencia

The Crane Wife

Cmaj7
The film was a bust but we stayed till the ending
					           G  
Hair all a-mussed but your clothes didn't look so bad
       Cmaj7
And back on the street the rain was descending
					     G 
In cold dirty sheets, so under the awning we sat
And then you hailed yourself a yellow cab
       C					   G
And I sat for a time by the valets in line and I read what you wrote on the card
	   C					    G
Above a cowboy you drew a big talk balloon saying "Try not to take it so hard"
	            Am                                       C
But there's this nagging suspicion that won't leave me alone tonight
							           G 
It's just that everything I try to do, nothing seems to turn out right

(...)

Everything I Try To Do Nothing Seems To Turn Out Right

A A EEA
On the lawn before the bouquet fell
A A EEA
Long before we heard the ringing bell
D E A A EEA
When all I want is a good look at your underside
A A EEA
Reading Tress like it was judy blume
A A EEA
Your paperbacks are strewn about the room
D E A A EEA
Awaiting their instructions to be mobilized
D E A F#m 
And everybody knows how it shakes and how it goes
D E A
Everybody knows and so it goes
D E D A A EEA
That everybody wants their shoes in the sunshine, now

A A EEA
Lazy rayna had a million bucks
A A EEA
Changed into pennies on a hundred truck
D E A A EEA
Cause linen's legal tender for a layabout
A A EEA
Why hold your breath until your face turns blue
A A EEA
A stretch of rope you know can do that too
D E A A EEA
The truth be told, no one likes a gadabout
D E A F#m D E A
And everybody knows how it shakes and how it goes
D E A
Everybody knows and so it goes
D E D A A EEA
That everybody wants their shoes in the sunshine, now
D E D A A EEA
Everybody wants their shoes in the sunshine, now

Sunshine

Billy Liar 

(This song can be played either (G, Em, G, Em) 
or an easier version: (G, Em). Both versions are shown)

G      Em     G      Em
I had entered into a marriage
G      Em           G           Em
In the summer of my twenty-first year
G        Em         G       Em
And the bells rang for our wedding
G        Em     G         Em
Only now do I remember it clear


   Am         C           G  Em
Alright, alright, alright!


G                  Em
No more a rake and no more a bachelor
G                   Em
I was wedded and it whetted my thirst
G                    Em
Until her womb start spilling out babies
G               Em
Only then did I reckon my curse


    Am        C          G  Em
Alright, alright, alright!
(x2)


G          Em         G                    Em
First came Eziah with his crinkled little fingers
G         Em                 G             Em
Then came Charlotte and that wretched girl Dawn
G        Em      G    Em
Ugly my fanwy died on delivery
G          Em        G       Em
Mercifully taking her mother along


    Am        C          G  Em 
Alright, alright, alright!


G           Em         G        Em
What can one do when one is widower
G          Em           G            Em
Shamefully saddled with three little pests
G          Em             G           Em
All that I wanted was the freedom of a new life
G      Em     G         Em
So my burden I began to divest


    Am        C           G Em
Alright, alright, alright!
(x2)

G           Em            G          Em
Charlotte I buried after feeding her foxglove
G        Em            G              Em
Dawn was easy, she was drowned in the bath
G       Em           G      Em
Eziah fought but was easily bested
G         Em        G            Em
Burned his body for incurring my wrath


    Am        C          G Em...
Alright, alright, alright!


G                Em        G          Em
And that's how I came your humble narrator
G     Em        G        Em
To be living so easy and free
G          Em         G          Em
Expect you think that I should be haunted
G      Em           G       Em
But it never really bothers me


    Am        C          G Em
Alright, alright, alright!
(x2)

The Rake's Song

Am                  G                  F   E
   Annan water, you loom so deep and wide
Am                       G                    F   E
   I would cross over if you would stem the tide
Am                            G                F   E
   Build a boat that I might ford the other side
Am                                   G              F      E         Am
   To reach the farthest shore where my true love lies in wait for me
F   E           Am
   In wait for me
F   E            Am
   In wait for me
F     E            Am
   In wait for me


                      G              F   E
   O grey river, your waters ramble wild
Am                       G                  F    E
   The horses shiver and bite against the bridle
Am                               G                    F   E
   But I will cross if mine own horse is pulled from me
Am                             G            F          E        Am
   Though my mother cries that if I try, I sure will drowned be
F     E           Am
   Will drowned be
F     E           Am
   Will drowned be
F       E         Am   A
   Will drowned be


         D Dm            A   F#m
If you calm and let me pass
         D            E                 A   A7
You may render me a wreck when I come back
              D  Dm                A   F#m
So calm your waves and slow the churn
             D                E             Am
And you may have my precious bones on my return


[Interlude: Am  G  F  E (x2)]


Am                G                     F   E
   Annan Water, O hear my true love's call
Am                    G                 F   E
   Here her holler above your water's pall
Am                                G                   F   E
   God that I could, that my two arms could give me wing
Am                                    G                 F       E       Am
   And I would cross your breadth and rest my breast about her amber ring
F    E          Am
   Her amber ring
F      E         Am
   Her amber ring
F       E        Am    A
   Her amber ring


             D Dm            A   F#m
But if you calm and let me pass
         D            E                 A   A7
You may render me a wreck when I come back
              D  Dm                A   F#m
So calm your waves and slow the churn
             D                E
And you may have my precious bones on my
        Dm
On my return

Annan Water

Hazards Of Love

G
Oh Valerie Plame 
               Am
If that really is your name 
             C  
I would just shout the same 
       G 
To the world 

             G
Dear Valerie Plame 
               Am
So they made a wreck of you 
                C
But give me the rest of you 
         G              
And I'll give the world 


Em                           Am
But you were just some silly girl 
       C                                  G
Taking in the sights of your empire's colony 

Em                 Am
So I took you into my confidence 
          C                             
Without a thought of consequence 
      D              D7  G         
To my heart or to my mind 

            G
But Valerie Plame 
               Am
If that really is your name 
             C
I would just shout the same 
       G
To the world 

G
La da de da 
         Am
la da de da 
        C
la dade da da da de da
   G 
de da 


           G
Oh Valerie Plame 
               Am
If that really is your name 
             C  
I would just shout the same 
        G 
From up high 

             G
Dear Valerie Plame 
                   Am
I'll look for that long exchange 
                C
Outside of the Bureau Change 
        G     
In Shanghai 


Em                         Am
But I was just some stupid boy on a bus 
          C                               G
When your nom de guerre was Codename Caroline 
Em                     Am
And so my Vespa became your chariot 
         C                          
From the Green Zone Marriott 
      D              D7  G       
To be etched upon my mind 


            G
But Valerie Plame 
               Am
If that really is your name 
             C
I would just shout the same 
       G
To the world 

G
La da de da 
         Am
la da de da 
        C
la dade da da da de da
   G 
de da 



F             Am           G                  F
And when they flashed your picture 'cross the screen 
       Am              G              F
How my heart seemed to leap out of me 
           Am       G            F
And they attached a list of your identities 
        Em                
But the one you'll always be 

           A
Is Valerie Plame 
               Bm
If that really is your name 
             D
I would just shout the same 
       A
To the world 

        A
Valerie plame 
               Bm
If that really is your name 
             D
I would just shout the same 
       A
To the world 



Key Change
G    D   Em   G   D   A/D  C/D  A/D  A/C

D            Em               G                                        A/D  C/D  A/D  A/C
La da da da da da da.. hey hey Valerie Plame (x2)

D            Em               G                                        
La da da da da da da.. hey hey Valerie

Valerie Plame

Always The Bridesmaid: Vol 1

D/F#                               G                

D/F#                               G
This is the story of your red right ankle,       and how it came to meet your leg
And how the muscle bone and sinews tangled, and how the skin was softly shed
Em                          A           Em                     A
And how it whispered, oh, adhere to me,    for we are bound by symmetry
Em                           A                D                    G    G D/F#
And whatever differences our lives have been,   we together make a limb
Em                        A           D/F#  G   D/F#  G  
This is the story of your red right ankle

This is the story of your gypsy uncle, you never knew 'cause he was dead
And how his face was carved and ripped wrinkles, in the picture in your head
And remember how you found the key, to his hideout in the Pyrenees
But you wanted to keep his secret safe, so you threw the key away
This is the story of your gypsy uncle

Em    A   Asus4 A  Em    A    Asus4 A
D/F#    G   (x2)

This is the story of the boys who loved you, who love you now and loved you then
And some were sweet and some were cold and snuffed you, and some just laid around in bed
And had crumbled you straight to your knees, did it cruel did it tenderly
And some had crawled their way into your heart, to rend your ventricles apart
Em                       A              G/B    G/B Asus4 G   G D/F# Em
This is the story of the boys who loved you
Em                        A           G  
This is the story of your red right ankle

Red Right Ankle

# Fm                Eb
  There's x xxxxxxx in xxx xxxxx
# Bbm               Dbmaj7         Fm
  Where xx xxxx xxx xxxxx xxxxxxxx
# Fm                   Eb               Dbmaj7
  And x xxxxx xxx xxxx blows xx xxxxxxx xxxxx
# C7
  Over xxxxx

# Fm               Eb
  And xxx xxxxxxx, and xxx xxxxxxx
# Bbm             Dbmaj7
  And xxx xxxxxxx, in xxx xxxxxxx
# Fm           Eb              Dbmaj7
  The xxxxxxxx rattling xx xxx xxxx, 
#       C7
  xxxxx remains

#  Fm               C              Fm
  But x, xxxx xxx bachelor xx xxx bride,
# Fm                 Db
  Am xxx xxxxxxx xxx tonight
#    Ab        Dbmaj7
  xx I, x xxxx box xxxx xxxx xxx
# C7                      Fm   Eb
  Leave xxx xxxx xxxxxxxx bare
# Bbm           C
  Stripped bare

# Fm                   Eb
  Hear xxx xxxxxxxxxx, and xxx xxxxxxxxxx
# Bbm                Dbmaj7
  And xxx xxxxx xxxx xx the xxxxx xxxx
# Fm          Eb            Dbmaj7     C7
  A xxxxxxxxx locked xxxxxx her xxxxx, in xxx xxxxx

# Fm               Eb
  And xxx xxxxxxx, are xxxx xxxxxxx
# Bbm           Dbmaj7
  Of xxx xxxxxx xx her xxxxx?
# Fm              Eb              Dbmaj7       C7
  Do xxx xxxxxxxx cure xxx xxxxxxxx brow, even xxx?

# Fm               C              Fm
  But x, xxxx xxx bachelor xx xxx bride,
# Fm                 Db
  Am xxx xxxxxxx xxx tonight
#    Ab        Dbmaj7
  xx I, x xxxx box xxxx xxxx xxx
# C7                      Fm   Eb
  Leave xxx xxxx xxxxxxxx bare
# Bbm           C
  Stripped bare
# Bbm           C  
  Stripped bare
# Fm            Eb
  Stripped bare
# Bbm           C
  Stripped bare

# Fm               C              Fm
  But x, xxxx xxx bachelor xx xxx bride,
# Fm                 Db
  Am xxx xxxxxxx xxx tonight
#    Ab        Dbmaj7
  xx I, x xxxx box xxxx xxxx xxx
# C7
  Take xxxx xxxxx xxx
# Bbm                  C
  Leave xxx, xxxxx xxx here

# Fm            Eb
  Stripped bare
# Bbm           C
  Stripped bare

Bachelor And The Bride

Intro: E7, Am

Am
I am a chimbley, 
   E7
a chimbley sweep 
     D7 
No bed to lie, 
                             Am
no shoes to hold my feet 
Upon the rooftops
     E7
in dead of night
          D7
You'll hear me cry,
                                   Am
I'll shake you from your sleep 
              C
Hear me weep 
G                             F
your day will come in peace


Am           C            F            D7
For I am a poor and a wretched boy 
    Am         E7            Am
A chimbley, chimbley sweep


Am
I am an orphan, 
     E7
an orphan boy 
       D7
I've known no love, 
                             Am
I've seen no mother's joy 
a dirty doorstep
      E7
my cradle laid 
       D7
my fortune's made,
                                  Am
I'll shake you from your sleep 

              C
Hear me weep 
G                              F
your day will come in peace


Am           C            F            D7
For I am a poor and a wretched boy 
    Am         E7            Am
A chimbley, chimbley sweep


Am
Oh, lonely urchin
       E7
the widow cried
      D7
i've not been swept
                                      Am
since the day my husband died
her cheeks a-blushing
      E7
her legs laid bare 
       D7
and shipwrecked there, 
                                   Am
I'll shake you from your sleep 

              C
Hear me weep 
G                              F
your day will come in peace


Am           C            F            D7
For I am a poor and a wretched boy 
    Am         E7            Am
A chimbley, chimbley sweep

Am           C            F             D7
For I am a poor and a wretched boy 
    Am         E7            Am
A chimbley, chimbley sweep

Chimbley Sweep

Standard Tuning: EADGBe

VERSE I
                     G                   Em
Billy Liar's got his hands in his pockets
                    A                         Em
Staring over at his neighbor's, knickers down.
A                          Em        A        D
He's got his knickers down.
                 G                Em
So the summer is eternity for you?
                       A                        Em
Sleeping in until your father's shaking you down
A                     Em        A
He's shaking you down.
        G
And the mailroom shift gets a real short shrift
       F#m                                                   Em
As you dole out the packages, no-one seems to want you around
A              Em    A
All skullking around.

CHORUS
D        Bm       D       Bm
Let your legs loll on the lino
D         F#m         Em        G    A
'Til your sinews spoil
D        Bm       D     Bm
Will you stay here for awhile, dear,
D        F#m  Em     G
'Til the radio plays something familiar?


etc

Billy Liar

Her Majesty The Decemberists

Dm
I'm a Legionnaire
         F
Camel in disrepair
            Gm
Hoping for a Frigidaire
        Dm      A
To come passing by
     Dm     
I am on reprieve
          F
Lacking my joie de vivre
           Gm
Missing my gay Paris
         Dm    A
In this desert dry
      F
And I wrote my girl
                
Told her I would not return
              Bb 
I've terribly taken a turn
        Dm         A
For the worst now, I fear
            Dm    
It's been a year or more
                             F
Since they shipped me to this foreign shore
             Gm
Fighting in a foreign war
       Dm          A
So far away from my home
             F
If only some rain would fall
      C               Bb
On the houses and the boulevards
      Gm
And the sidewalk bagatelles
            Bb
It's like a dream
         F
With the roar of cars 
        C              Bb
And the lolling of the cafe bars
    Gm                                Bb        
The sweetly sleeping, sweeping of the Seine
       Gm                 Dm      A     Dm
Lord I don't know if I'll ever be back again
         F
La la la la
         Gm     Dm A
La la la la
          Dm
Medicating in the sun
              F
Pinch doses of laudanum
               Gm
Longing for the old fecundity
Dm    A
Of my homeland
         Dm
Curses to this mirage!
           F
A bottle of ancient Shiraz
               Gm
A smattering of distant applause
          Dm     A
Is ringing in my poor ears
       Dm
On the old left bank
            F 
My baby in a charabanc
             Gm 
Riding up the width and length
       Dm      A
Of the Champs-Elysee

            F
If only some rain would fall
       C              Bb
On the houses and the boulevards
       Gm
And the sidewalk bagatelles
            Bb
It's like a dream
         F
With the roar of cars 
        C              Bb
And the lolling of the cafe bars
    Gm                                Bb        
The sweetly sleeping, sweeping of the Seine
       Gm                 Dm      A     Dm
Lord I don't know if I'll ever be back again

The Legionnaire's Lament

G                          Em
Grace Cathedral hill, all wrapped in the 
                            C
bones of a setting sun, all dust and stone 
                          D
and moribund. I paid twenty-five cents to 
          D7                 G      
light a little white candle for a New Year's 
      Em
Day. I sat and watched it burn away then 
C
turned and weaved through the slow decay. 
         D                          D7
We were both a little hungry so we went 
                  G                               Em
to get a hotdog.  Down the Hyde St. Pier, the light was slight and 
                     C                             D                         
dissapeared.  The air, it sunk of fish and beer. We heard 
                             D7
a superman trumpet play the National Anthem. 

CHORUS
C                  G          Em   C
And the world may belong for you, but he'll 
        G       Em   C                 Cm           
never belong to you. But on a motorbike, when 
                    D                 D7
all the city lights blind your eyes tonight, are you 
         C          D                   G                  Em
feeling better now? .......Are you feeling be...ttttter..nooooww.
           C                 Cm
Are you feeling better now?

VERSE 2
Some way to greet the year: your eyes all 
bright and brimmed with tears. The 
pilgrims, pills and tourist here all sing 
"Fifty three bucks to buy a brand new halo." 
I'm sweet on a green-eyed girl, all fiery 
Irish clip and curl, all brine and piss and 
vinegar. I paid twenty-five vents to light a little white candle. 

CHORUS 
And the world maybe be long for you, but he'll 
never belong to you. But on a motorbike, when 
all the city lights blind your eyes, are you 
feeling better now? 

CODA
G-Em-C-Cm
La..la...la...la...

Grace Cathedral Hill

E

A     B     E    D
There is a road that meets the road That goes to my house 
A     B     E
And how the green grows there 

A     B     E    D
And we've got special boots To beat the path to my house 
A     B     E
And it's careful and it's careful when I'm there 

A     B     E    D
And I say your uncle was a crooked french canadian 
A     B     E
And he was gut-shot running gin 

A     B     E    D
And how his guts were all suspended in his fingers 
A     B     E
and how he held 'em  How he held 'em held, 'em in 

F#m E
And the water rolls down the drain 
F#m E
The water rolls down the drain 
       D
O, what a lonely thing 
       E
In a lonely drain 

A  D  E  D
July, July, July 
A  D  E  D
It never seemed so strange 
A  D  E  D
July, July, July 
A  D  E  D  A  D  E  D
It never seemed so strange never seemed so strange 

E

A     B     E    D
This is the story of the road that goes to my house 
A     B     E
And what ghosts there do remain 

A     B     E    D
And all the troughs that run the length and breadth of my house 
A     B     E
And the chickens how they rattle chicken chains 

A     B     E    D
And we'll remember this when we are old and ancient 
A     B     E
Though the specifics might be vague 

A     B     E    D
And I'll say your camisole was a sprightly light magenta 
A     B     E
When in fact it was a nappy bluish grey 

F#m E
And the water rolls down the drain 
F#m E
The blood rolls down the drain 
       D
O, what a lonely thing 
       E
In a blood red drain 

A  D  E  D
July, July, July 
A  D  E  D
It never seemed so strange 
A  D  E  D
July, July, July 
A  D  E  D  A  D  E  D
It never seemed so strange never seemed so strange 

E
A

July July

INTRO

(Gmaj7 Cmaj7) x2

VERSE 1

Gmaj7                            Cmaj7
This cocoon, caught in Vesuvius' shadow
                Gmaj7
Only the ashes remain
    Cmaj7
And I waited there for you
             Gmaj7      Cmaj7
Why couldn't you?

VERSE 2

Gmaj7                               Cmaj7
Here we lie waiting for something to startle
                           Gmaj7
To shake us from gravity's pull
    Cmaj7
And so sleeping hours are through
            Gmaj7       Cmaj7
What can we do?

PRE-CHORUS

     Em                    Cmaj7           Am7
The sorry conclusion, the low dirty war, it happened before you came to
     Em                    Cmaj7
But this is solution, and this is amends
     Am7
The joke always tends to come true
     F                        Dm                 A
But there on your windowsill over the unmoving platoon
 F                      Dm                      A
Written in paperback, view to the quarterback's room
    C
Under waning moon

CHORUS

      G/B        Gm/A#     Am
This quiet serves only to hide you
  Em/B  Am
Provide you
       C          Cm                       Gmaj7  Cmaj7
What I knew, what I knew, it'd come back to you

Gmaj7 Cmaj7

VERSE 3

Gmaj7                               Cmaj7
Take this palm, follow the lines here are written
                                  Gmaj7
And script out the rest of your life
  Cmaj7
And feel your fingers falling slack 
               Gmaj7       Cmaj7
And all folding back

PRE-CHORUS

     Em                    Cmaj7           
The tainted election, the hole in the sky
Am7
Command what is tried, what is true
     Em                    Cmaj7
But without solution, with feet on the ground
Am7
It won't make a sound 'til you're through
     F                        Dm
So loosen your shoulder blades
                              A
This is your hour to make due
     F                        Dm 
Because there on the timberline
                                  A
Deep cold November shines through
           C
Soft and absolute

CHORUS

      G/B        Gm/A#     Am
This quiet serves only to hide you
  Em/B  Am
Provide you
       C          Cm                       Gmaj7  Cmaj7
What I knew, what I knew, it'd come back to you

Cocoon

Castaways and Cutouts

G                               Em  
Here's a hymn to welcome in the day 
G                          Em
heralding a summer's early sway
                             C       
And all the bulbs are coming in   
    Am  
to begin
    C                                  Am                  G     D
The thrushes bleeding battle with the wrens disrupts my reverie again

G                       Em  
Pegging clothing on the line
G                        Em                        C       
Training jasmine how to vine up the arbor to you door
Am
anymore
 C                               Am                G                  D
Standing on the landing with the war you shouldered all the night before

C            D                G             C 
Once upon it,  yellow bonnets,  garland all along
C             D                   G                 C 
You were waking and day was breaking, a panoply of song
D                   C           G
And summer comes to Springville Hill

G                       Em  
A barony of ivy in the trees 
G                             Em  
expanding out its empire by degrees
                                  C
And all the branches burst to bloom
       Am
in the boon
    C               Am                      G            D                             
Heaven sent this Cardinal marooned to decorate our living room

C            D                G             C 
Once upon it,  yellow bonnets,  garland all along
C             D                   G                 C 
You were waking and day was breaking,  a panoply of song
D                   C           G
And summer comes to Springville Hill

C                 D                 Em         C
And years from now when this old light isn't ambling anymore
C      D                  G           
Will I bring myself to write
D                          Em
Will I bring myself to write....
C                  D             G
I give my best to Springville Hill

C            D                G             C 
Once upon it,  yellow bonnets,  garland all along
C             D                   G                 C 
You were waking and day was breaking,  a panoply of song
D                   C           G
And summer comes to Springville Hill

June Hymn

Intro:
C Em C Em D

Verse:
Em                G
See this ancient riverbed
D                  C
See where all our follies are led
Em                  D                    Em
Down by the water, down by the old main drag

Em              G
I was just some toehead teen
D                                 C
Feeling 'round for fingers to get in between
Em                  D                    Em
Down by the water, down by the old main drag

Chorus:
Em         D       Em
The season rubs me wrong
Em          D      C
The summer swells anon
             Em           G
So knock me down, tear me up
            D                          C
But I would bear it all broken just to fill my cup
Em                  D                   Em
Down by the water, down by the old main drag

Down By The Water

The King Is Dead

H       
A -----------------------------------------------
E ---1----------1-----------1---0--------0-1-----
C -2----------2-----2-----2------------------0-2-
G -----0-2--------0-----------0------------------

Carolina Low

F          G                                
I am the Cavalry Captain 
Em          Am              F 
I am the remedy to your heart
F          G             Em 
I am the carbon collected  
Em                   Am          F 
I am the printed upon your stars

F G Em Am

F                             G          
And when you shine, shine your eyes 
                Em         Am
Looking lost, looking bright
F                        G    
Wheel away on the light brigade
F
And if only for a second (Only for a second)
G
And if only for a time (Only for a time)
F
And if only for a second  (Only for a second)
G                      Am G        
And if only for a time

F             G                                     
We'll be alive 
                F       G      Em    Am
We'll be alive, oh oh  ohoooh ooh oh

F G Em Am  

F          G                                
I am the Cavalry Captain 
Em          Am              F 
I am the remedy to your heart
F          G             Em 
I am the carbon collected  
Em                   Am          F 
I am the printed upon your stars
 
F G Em Am  

F                        G                   
There is a world, there is a time  
                   Am      F 
Looking calm, looking kind
F                        G                        
Wheel a way at the break of day

Cavalry Captain

Intro: G

Am
Down by the lake
We were overturning pebbles
                                  G
And upending all the animals alight
Am
And I took a drag
From your cigarette and pinched it
'Tween my finger and my thumb
          G
Till it died
        Am                     G
And the sun burned low on the radio
Am
Say that you will
Say you will or will you won't
Or you whatever you prevaricate
            G
Your whole life, don't you?
Am
This much I can say:
I would've waited till the oceans
Fell Away and all the sunken cities
                 G
Would reveal themselves to you
         Am
But you won't, will you?
              G
Because you never do
        Am
And the sun burned through
               G
Sweet as honeydew
    Em
And I
D                         C
Seventeen and terminally fey
 Bm                              Am
I wrote it down and threw it all away
                               C
Never gave a thought to what I'd paid
    Em
And you
D                             C
Sibylline, reclining in your pew
Bm                             Am
You tattered me, you tethered me to you
                                C
The things you would and wouldn't do
                                 G
To tell the truth I never had a clue

Am   G

Am
Now we arise
To curse those young suburban villains
                                          G
And their ill-begotten children from the lawn
Am
Come to me now
And on this station wagon window
Set the ghost of your two footprints
                 G
That they might haunt me when you're gone
             Am
And when the light broke dawn
          G
You were forever gone
        Am
But I remember you, you were full
                              G
You were full and sweet as honeydew
   Em
And I
D                        C
Seventeen and terminally fey
Bm                            Am
I wrote it down and threw it all away
                           C
And never gave a thought to what I paid
     Em        D                         C
And you all sibylline, reclining in your pew
Bm                                  Am
You tattered me, you tethered me to you
                                  C
The things you would and wouldn't do
                               G
You noticed how I never had a clue
Never had a clue
You were full and sweet as honeydew
You were full and sweet as honeydew

Lake Song

[Verse 1]

Bm          D 
I want you, thin fingers
G
I wanted you, thin fingernails
Bm           D
And when you bend backwards
G                           Bm
I wanted you, I needed you, ohh
D         G
To make me better

Bm            D
I'll love you in springtime
G
I lost you when summer came
Bm           D
And when you pulled backwards
G                          Bm
I wanted to, I needed to, ohh
D          G
To make me better
Bm   D          G
Ohh, to make me better


[Chorus]

A                      G     D
But we're not so starry-eyed anymore
G                         D                A      G 
Like the perfect paramour you were in your letters
A                          G              D
And won't it all just come around to make you
G                       D              A
Let it all un-break you to the day you met her
         G
But it'd make you better
              Bm*    D*  G*
It'd make you better


[Verse 2]

Bm         D
I sung you your twinges
G
I suffered you your tattle-tales
Bm            D
And when you broke sideways
G                           Bm
I wanted you, I needed you, ohh
D          G
To make me better
Bm   D          G
Ohh, to make me better


[Chorus 2]

A                      G     D
But we're not so starry-eyed anymore
G                         D                A      G 
Like the perfect paramour you were in your letters
A                          G              D
And won't it all just come around to make you
G                       D              A
Let it all un-break you to the day that you met her
             G    
And it'd make you better
              Bm        G   D  A  (2x)
Did it make you better


[Bridge]

Bm                     G                  D      A
And all I wanted was a sliver to call mine
Bm                     G                    D
And all I wanted was a shimmer of your shine
A
To make me bright


[Chorus]

A                      G     D
Cause we're not so starry-eyed anymore
G                         D                A      G 
Like the perfect paramour you were in your letters
A                          G              D
And won't it all just come around to make you
G                       D              A
Let it all un-break you to the day you met her
             G    
But it'd make you better
              Bm     D  G
It'd make you better﻿

Make You Better

What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World

G           Cmaj7     G
Have I ever lost your way?
            Cmaj7       G
Have I ever left you waylaid?
            Cmaj7  G
Have I ever come unstayed?
C           G
Why would I now?

                   Em           G
There were times I loathed your name.
                   Em      G
There were times I laid on blame.
                   Em         G
There were times I brought on shame
    C           G
but why would I now?

                 D          C     G
For I will never be your familiar soul.
             D          C      G
I will never see your imperial whole.
                Em             C           G
But have I ever stood back and watched you fall,
C            G
ditched your call,
   C          G     D
or caught you bent around?
            G
Why would I now?

            Cmaj7       G
Have I ever steered you wrong?
            Cmaj7       G
Have I ever strung you along?
            Cmaj7    G
Have I ever kept you long?
    C       G
Why would I now?

                   Em                G
There were times I broke through the walls.
                   Em               G
There were times I broke through it all.
                   Em      G
There were times I fell so hard
        C       G
but why would I now?

                 D          C     G
For I will never be your familiar soul.
             D          C      G
I will never see your imperial whole.
                Em             C           G
But have I ever stood back and watched you fall,
C            G
ditched your call,
   C          G     D
or caught you bent around?
            G
Why would I now?

Bm             C                 G
And though the years, they may upbraid you.
Bm     C            G               D
How it all nearly unmade you laying down.
             G
Why would it now?

                 Cmaj7    G
Remember when it all went dark?
                 Cmaj7       G
Remember when it first rent apart?
               Cmaj7   G
Remember how I held my mark?
       C          G
So why wouldn't I now?

                 D          C     G
For I will never be your familiar soul.
             D          C      G
I will never see your imperial whole.
                Em             C           G
But have I ever stood back and watched you fall,
C            G
ditched your call,
   C          G     D
or caught you bent around?
            G
Why would I now?

Why Would I Now?

strumming pattern
D-DUD-D

F,G,C,Em7

mmmmm mmmm mmmm 

F                    G
Work, work, work, work, work, work. He said me haffi
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work! He see me do mi
F                     G
Dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt! So me put in
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work. When you ah guh
F                        G
Learn, learn, learn, learn, learn Meh nuh cyar if him
C                   Em7
Hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurting


[Verse 1: Rihanna]

F              G
Dry! ...Me a desert
C                 Em7
Nuh time to have ya lerkin'
F                        G
Him ago act like him nuh like it
C                           Em7
You know I dealt with you the nicest
F                        G
Nuh body touch me in the righteous
C                     Em7
Nuh botha, text me in a crisis 
           F                    G
I believed all of your dreams, adoration
            C                    Em7
You took my heart and my keys and my patience
            F                        G
You took my heart on my sleeve for decoration
                C                          Em7
You mistaken my love I brought for you for foundation
           F             G
All that I wanted from you was to give me
C            Em7
Something that I never had
F                   G
Something that you've never seen
C                     Em7
Something that you've never been!
F     G
Mmmmm!
      C                          
But I wake up and act like nothing's wrong
D
Just get ready fi...


[Hook: Rihanna]
F                    G
Work, work, work, work, work, work. He said me haffi
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work! He see me do mi
F                     G
Dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt! So me put in
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work. When you ah guh
F                        G
Learn, learn, learn, learn, learn Meh nuh cyar if him
C                   Em7
Hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurting
F             G
Ner ner ner ner ner ner!
               C           Em7
When you a guh ner ner ner ner ner ner!
                  F                 G
Before the tables turn turn turn turn turn turn!
C             Em7
Beg you something please


[Verse 2: Rihanna]

F            G
Baby don't you leave
               C                 Em7
Do''t leave me stuck here in the streets, 
   F                  G
uh huh If I get another chance to
       C                Em7
I will never, no never neglect you
      F                         G
I mean who am I to hold your past against you?
       C                    Em7
I just hope that it gets to you
  F           G
I hope that you see this through
  C                      Em7
I hope that you see this true
F          G
What can I say?
       C          
Please recognize I'm tryin', baby!!!
 Em7
I have to


[Hook: Rihanna]

F                    G
Work, work, work, work, work, work. He said me haffi
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work! He see me do mi
F                     G
Dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt! So me put in
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work. When you ah guh
F                        G
Learn, learn, learn, learn, learn Meh nuh cyar if him
C                   Em7
Hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurting


[Verse 3: Drake]

N.C.
Yeah, okay
F        G        C                   Em7
You need to get done, done, done, done at work, come over
F               G
We just need to slow the motion
C                   Em7
Don't give that away to no one
F            G
Long distance, I need you
C                          Em7
When I see potential I just gotta see it through
F                        G
If you had a twin, I would still choose you
C                           Em7
I don't wanna rush into it, if it's too soon
      F      G               C              
But I know you need to get done, done, done, done
   Em7
If you come over
F            G
Sorry if I'm way less friendly
C                    Em7
I got n____s tryna end me,
F G           C                 Em7
oh,     I spilled all my emotions tonight, I'm sorry
F               G
Rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin'
C                                Em7
How many more shots until you're rollin'?
F              G
We just need a face to face
C                    Em7            F
You could pick the time and the place
               G
You spent some time away
C                Em7
Now you need to forward and give me all the...


[Hook: Rihanna]

F                    G
Work, work, work, work, work, work. He said me haffi
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work! He see me do mi
F                     G
Dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt! So me put in
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work. When you ah guh
F                        G
Learn, learn, learn, learn, learn Meh nuh cyar if him
C                   Em7
Hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurting

mmm mmm mmm..


[Outro: Rihanna]

work work work work work work

F G C D
F G C D

Work

Intro: C D C D (x2)


C D
Si es que no puedes hablar
C D
no te atrevas a volver
C D
si te quieres ocultar
C D
tal vez te podria ver
Em D C G C
y el amor que no sabe a quien y que
G C
hablará si tu verdad
Em F
te abrazara otra vez

Em C
Habla si puedes
G C
grita que sientes
Em C
dime a quien quieres
G C
y te hace feliz

C D


C D
Si no puedes escuchar
C D
aunque insistas hablaré
C D
si lo quieres mírame
C D
y tus ojos hablaran tal vez
Em D C G C
sentiras el amor e iras tras el
G C
hablaras si tu verdad
Em F
te abrazará otra vez

Em C
Habla si puedes
G C
grita que sientes
Em C
dime a quien quieres
G D
y te hace feliz
Em C
habla si puedes
G C
grita si temes
Em C
dime a quien quieres
G D
y te hace feliz


Em G C G
.(CUERDAS)... abrazaméeeeeeeee..
C Em F
quiero despertarme y entender

Em C
habla si puedes
G C
grita si temes
Em C
dime a quien quieres
G D
y que haces aquì
Em C
habla si puedes
G C
grita que sientes
Em C
dime a quien quieres
G C
y te hace feliz
G C
y te hace feliz

C D
(fin)

Habla si puedes

LA RE
Jo et duré a casa si fa mal temps
MI FA#m
Jo t’empararé si un cas tens por
SIm MI
Jo te cuidaré si estàs malalta
RE LA
De tot cor, de tot cor
RE REm LA
De tot cor

MI RE DO#m-SIm-LA

FA#m DO#m
Estic a punt d’anar-me’n
RE LA RE
Mes abans de partir et diré
REm LA
Que et duc dins es pensament

FA#m DO#m
No deix de recordar-te
RE LA RE
I alen els teus alens tot calents
REm SIm MI
De lluny i de prop me tens


Jo et duré...

FA#m DO#m
I a dalt de s’escenari
RE LA RE
Quan estic concentrat cantant
REm MI
Jo sempre te tenc present

FA#m DO#m
Perquè m’ets necessari
RE LA
Com s’aire que respir
RE REm SIm MI
Necessit estar amb tu en tot moment


Jo et duré... ( bis )

De tot cor

Verse 1:
           B
I'm going back to the time when we owned this town
      E
Down Powder Mill Lane, in the battlegrounds
C#m        B                   G#m  B     F#
We were friends and lovers and clueless clowns


Verse 2:
                      B       
I didn't know I'd be finding out now I was torn from you
         E
When we thought about things we were gonna do
C#m      B                    G#m B  F# 
We were wide eyed dreamers and wiser too


Chorus:
               E              B 
Go down to the rides on East Parade,
        G#m                   F#
by the lights of the Palace Arcade
                    E                     G#m   F#   
Watch night coming down on the Sovereign Light Café


Verse 3:
                          B
I'm begging you for some sign, but you've still got nothing to say
        E
Don't turn your back on me, don't walk away
C#m     B                   G#m  B   F#
I'm a better man now than I was that day


Chorus:
                      E              B 
Let's go down to the rides on East Parade,
        G#m                   F#
by the lights of the Palace Arcade
                    E                     G#m   F#   
Watch night coming down on the Sovereign Light Café

                 E               B
Go down to the bandstand on the pier
           G#m                    F#
Watch the drunks and the lovers appear
                      E                     G#m   F#     
Take time, just the stars at the Sovereign Light Café


Bridge:
   E        B           F#
I wheel my bike off the train,
        F#
Up the North Trade Road,
 E        B             F# 
Look for you on Marley Lane
                          G#m
In every building, every streetlight
                   E               F#  G#m  B  F#
Oh why did we ever go so far from home?


Verse 4:
                        B
You keep on leaving me mile long traces of who you are
         E
You can get a big house and a faster car
C#m      B                    G#m   B  F#
You can run away boy, but you won't go far


Chorus:
                      E              B
Let's go down to the rides on East Parade,
        G#m                   F#
by the lights of the Palace Arcade
                    E                     G#m   F#   
Watch night coming down on the Sovereign Light Café

                    E                B
Stroll down to the bandstand on the pier
           G#m                    F#
Watch the drunks and the lovers appear
                     E                      G#m   F#
Take time, just the stars at the Sovereign Light Café 

      E            B    G#m
La la la la la la la la Yeah, 
     F#                      E       B   F#
I'm going where the people know my name


Outro:
E B G#m F#
E B G#m F# B

Sovereign Light Cafe

(Chorus)
G
You xxxx X xxx'x smile xxxx xxx
Em
X can't xxxxx xxxxxxx xxx
Am7
I xxx'x xxxxx xxx X xxx'x sing
D7
I'm xxxxxxx xx xxxx xx xx xxxxxxxx
(1st Verse)
G
You xxx X xxxx xxx xxxx xxx'xx sad
Em
X feel xxxx xxxx xxx'xx glad
Am7
If xxx xxxx xxxx xxxx X'x xxxxx through
D7                              G Em G Em
X just xxx'x xxxxx without xxx
(2nd verse)
G
You xxxx along xxxx xxxx x song
Em
Xxx brightened xx xxx
Am7
Whod've xxxxxxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xx x dream
                  D7
Xxx xx xxx xxxxx light xxxxx xxxx
(Chorus)
         G 
Xxx now xxx xxx X xxx'x smile xxxx xxx
Em
X can't xxxxx xxxxxxx xxx
Am7
I xxx'x xxxxx xxx X xxx'x sing
D7                          Eb
I'm xxxxxxx xx xxxx xx xx anything
(3rd Verse)
Ab
You xxx X xxxx xxx xxxx xxx'xx sad
   Fm
X feel xxxx xxxx xxx'xx glad
Bbm
If xxx xxxx xxxx xxxx X'x xxxxx through
Ebm
X just xxx'x xxxxx
Ebm                                 Ab               C#
Now xxxx xxxxxx xxx happiness xxxxx so xxxx xxxx xx find
C#m                                         Eb     E
Well, X'x xxxxxxx xx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx behind me
A
And xxx xxx X xxx'x smile xxxxxxx xxx
F#m
X can't xxxxx xxxxxxx xxx
Bm
X xxx'x laugh xxx X xxx'x sing
E
X'x finding xx xxxx xx xx xxxxxxxx
Bb
You xxx X xxxx xxxx xxxx xxx'xx glad
Gm
X feel xxx xxxx xxx'xx sad
Cm
If xxx xxxx knew xxxx X'x xxxxx through
F
X just xxx'x smile xxxxxxx xxx

Can't Smile Without You

Intro: Em  A  Em  A

       Em               A                Em                   
 A
Verse: Be on my side or be on your side, there is no reason for you to hide,
       Em                 A
       Its so hard for me stayin' here all alone, when you could be takin'
       A                Em                                             A
       Me for a ride... She could drag me, over the rainbow, send me away


        G     D         A    G  D          A
Chorus:  Down by the ri-ver,  I shot my ba-by

 Em        A
 Ooh, Ooh, shot her dead


Verse 2:You take my hand I'll take your hand, together we may get away,

        This must madness is too much sorrow, its impossible to make it

        today... She could drag me, over the rainbow, send me away


(Chorus)

(Verse 1)

Down By The River

Intro: D-A-Bm-Em-A  x4

         D                 A                          
I'll confess tonight your all thats on my mind
        Bm            A                   D
I know these roof top nights could last forever.
              A                            Bm
we watched the seasons change, we saw the distance pull us away,
           A
from all we shared together.

D                       A
Right now is all we have you better make this count
Bm                       A
these are the moments i wish i could forget you.

D                            A                                          Bm
I think back to the nights I looked into your bright green eyes and you said,
    Em    A
lets run away.
D                             A                             Bm
its 9am the sun wont rise for 3 more hours pacific time you said
    Em    A
lets run away.

play intro  x2

D                    A
I picked apart every word that you said
  Bm                              A
I dissected each sentence but kept coming up empty
D                         A
the way you are leaves me counting the days
        Bm                            A
till the next time this distance will be a memory


D                        A        
Right now is all we have you better make this count
Bm                     D
these are the moments i wish i could forget you.


D                            A                                          Bm
I think back to the nights I looked into your bright green eyes and you said,
     Em   A
lets run away.
D                            A                              Bm
its 9am the sun wont rise for 3 more hours pacific time you said
     Em   A
lets run away.

D-A-Bm-A

where have you been


                                                                        Bm
I think back to the nights I looked into your bright green eyes and you said,
     Em   A
lets run away.
D                            A                                          Bm
I think back to the nights I looked into your bright green eyes and you said,
     Em   A
lets run away.
D                            A                              Bm
its 9am the sun wont rise for 3 more hours pacific time you said
     Em   A
lets run away


American Dream 

[intro x2]
A  E  D A

A                                        E
when there's no place you feel at home
              D                               A
and you think you'd be better off alone
A                                          E
when you think there's no reason to try
               D                           A
and you hate yourself and wanna die

A                                      E
when you're filled with anxiety
             D                   A
and everyone's your enemy
A                                        E
when you wish you were someone else
                 D                        A
and you wanna go out and kill yourself

[chorus]

E D                 A
ooh you're overreacting

(you can change your mind)
E D                A
ooh you're overreacting

(take your time)


A                       E
when you get yourself depressed
                      D                   A
because you think you can't do your best
A                                         E
when you write yourself a stupid song
           D                        A
to remind yourself that you forgot

[chorus]

E D                 A
ooh you're overreacting

(you can change your mind)
E D                A
ooh you're overreacting

(take your time)


[BRIDGE]
# chords x2:
A  E  D  A

A|------------------------------------------------------|
E|-0-2--------------------------------------------------|
C|------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----2-4-2---2-4-2-1---1-1-2-2-1-2-4-2-1-22-----------|     x2



[chorus]

E D                 A
ooh you're overreacting

(you can change your mind)
E D                A
ooh you're overreacting

Overreacting

G Bm Em A
Well everybody's lookin' for something they can't find,
Walking straight ahead blind-folded production line,
Only taking time for one type of shoe-shine.
Don't look left/right now you got a street fine.
Everybody lookin' for just a little more.
Working late-nights trying to fight off the day glow.
Waiting for the come-around but it is a no show.
Driving in the fast lane lookin' for the slow-mo...

C D A
Oh whats in store I don't know anymore.
Oh what's inside 'cos I can't hide from it no more.
Oh what you see well it's not me anymore.
Oh I don't know well I don't know man anymore because 

G Bm Em A
I tell you once I tell you twice, gonna be a long time
But you don't take no one's advice, gonna be a long time you,
Where were you, you weren't listenin', gonna be a long time
Gonna be a long time.

G Bm Em A
So now you're face down, face lookin like a frying pan.
Hitting up the clubs trying to feel like a real man.
Beating your chest just like you're King Kong but you're just a gui-tar no-string no-song.
Feeling free like ya don't even know it, man you're towing the line hoping you just don't blow it.
Man ya stuck in the mainframe trying to win the big game so much potential it even makes it more of a shame, shame, shame...
Here we go again, same old shit just another name.
Looking at the destiny there in your palm,
But now you got your strings but you got no song.
So sing, sing, sing - shake it like a chicken wing.
It's not what you get it's about what you bring-bring-bring.
So bring it, bring it to the table, not because you have to 'cos you're willing and you're able!

C D A
Oh what's in store I don't know anymore.
Oh what's inside 'cos I can't hide from it no more.
Oh what you see well it's not me anymore.
Oh I don't know, I don't know anymore because 

G Bm Em A
I tell you once I tell you twice, gonna be a long time.
But you don't take no one's advice, gonna be a long time.
You, where were you, you weren't listening, gonna be a long time.
Gonna be a long time.

Gonna Be A Long Time

It takes a while to get used to the rhythm. In the verse the
time signature goes 3/4 for 2 bars then 2/4 for 1 bar and then
repeats.


Intro and Verses:

A|-2---3---2-|-5-------5-|------|-10------10|-9-------9-|------
E|-----------|-----------|------|-----------|-----------|----3-
C|-0---------|-2---2-----|------|-----7-----|-----------|-2----
G|-0---------|-0---------|-0----|-9---------|-7---------|------
   |   |   |   |   |   |   |  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |  |

Intro Riff:

A|-10--12--10-|-9---10---9-|-2---3---2-|-5-------5-|-------|
E|------------|------------|-----------|-----------|-------|
C|------------|------------|-0---------|-2---2-----|-------|
G|-9----------|-7----------|-0---------|-0---------|-0-----|



Chorus:

                   C
I...              driving...
     G  
The speed...            

Em
      City...

        D
And...  arm...
    
    C  Em        D
And I      had a feeling...

    C  Em        D
And I      had a feeling...

C           D
be...       be... 

Suggestion: during the verses, it can sound pretty cool if you
get a friend to strum the chords: C, G, Em, D in the background
:)

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