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[The chords written down here are Amy's, more or less. She plays either
a 12-string or high-strung guitar (which is basically a 12-string with the
bigger strings removed). Some fingerings are at the end.]
[Emily's guitar is tuned DADGAD, so most of her chords actually have A and
D notes in them: G becomes G(9), A becomes A7sus4, Em becomes Em7(4), etc.
Buy the _Swamp_Ophelia_ songbook if you want Emily's chord fingerings.]
[Each chord, or pair of chords joined by hyphens, is one 6/8 measure.]
REmaj9 SOL RE - REsus4 RE - REsus9 REmaj9 SOL RE - SOLm RE
[intro] (Handed down or made by hand)
REmaj9 SOL
Each time you'd pull down the driveway
RE - REsus4 RE
I wasn't sure when I would see you again
MIm7 SOL - LA7sus4
Yours was a twisted, blind-sided highway
RE - SOLm RE
No matter which road you took then
REmaj9 SOL
Oh you set up your place in my thoughts
RE - REsus4 RE
Moved in and made my thinking crowded
MIm7 RE/FA#
Now we're out in the back with the barking dogs
SOL LA7sus4 LA7
My heart the red sun, your heart the moon clouded
SOL LA
I could go crazy on a night like tonight
RE - RE/DO# SOLmaj7/SI
When summer's beginning to give up her fight
SOL LA
And every thought's a possibility
RE - RE/DO# RE7/DO
And voices are heard, but nothing is seen
SOL LA
Why do you spend this time with me
SOL - LA RE - REsus4 RE
May be an equal mystery
So what is love then
Is it dictated or chosen (handed down or made by hand)
Does it sing like the hymns of a thousand years
Or is it just pop emotion (handed down or made by hand)
And if it ever was there, and it left
Does it mean it was never true
And to exist it must elude
Is that why I think these things of you
But I could go crazy on a night like tonight
When summer's beginning to give up her fight
And every thought's a possibility
And voices are heard, but nothing is seen
Why do you spend this time with me
May be an equal mystery
DO9
Oh, but you like the taste of danger
DO9 RE - REsus4 RE
It shines like sugar on your lips
DO9 DO9
And you like to stand in the line of fire
MIm7 RE7/DO
Just to show you can shoot straight from your hip
SOL SOLm
There must be a thousand things you would die for
RE - RE/DO# SOLmaj7/SI
I can hardly think of two
MIm7 RE/FA#
But not everything is better spoken aloud
SOL LA7sus4 LA7
Not when I'm talking to you
REmaj9 SOL
Oh, the pirate gets the ship and the girl tonight
RE - REsus4 RE
Breaks a bottle to christen her
MIm7 SOL - LA7sus4
Basking in the exploits of her thief
RE - SOLm RE
She's a very good listener
REmaj9 SOL
And maybe that's all that we need is to meet in the middle
RE - REsus4 RE
Of impossibility
MIm7
Standing at opposite poles
SOL - LA RE - REsus4 RE
Equal partners in a mystery
MIm7
We're standing at opposite poles
SOL - LA RE - REsus4 RE - REsus4 RE - SOLm RE
Equal partners in a mystery
AMY'S CHORDS:
REmaj9 x00220 SOL 320033 SOLm xx0333 LA7sus4 x02030
RE/DO# x40232 SOLmaj7/SI x20032 RE7/DO x30232
C9: x32330 (actually x32333, but can _you_ play that?)
(The rest should be pretty standard.)
If you want to get that jangly 12-string kind of sound on an ordinary
6-string, put a capo at the 5th fret and transpose everything to the
key of A. Then, try using these for some of your chord fingerings:
Amaj9 D(9) A As2s4 A As2s4
x02100 x00230 x07650 - x07700 x07650 - x07700
intro
LAmaj9 RE(9) LA REm(9) LA
x02100 x00230 x02220 - x03230 x02220
intro
Later in the song, the only suggestions I have are 32320x for G9,
and x02220 x02120 x00252 (A Amaj7 D(9)) instead of A A/G# Dmaj7/F#.
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