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Emily by Joanna Newsom
Emily
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:3rd fret
Standard tuning, capo on 3. This will make things a little easier for you.
If you're new to guitar, sorry, you're still gonna have to use bar chords (but
shout out to you
for trying to take on a 12 minute song).
Chords used (relative to capo)
C x32010
Em 022000
D xx0232
Am x02210
F 133211
A x02220
E 022100
F#m 244222
Amaj7 x02120
Bm 224432
C#m 446654
F# 244322
G#m 466444
B 224442
Quite a few! but less bar chords than you'd have to use in another tab, so it
should be
a little nicer to your hands.
[Verse 1]
C Em D Am
The meadowlark and the chim-choo-ree and the sparrow
C Em D Am
Set to the sky in a flying spree, for the sport of the Pharaoh
C Em D Am
Little while later the Pharisees dragged a comb through the meadow
C Em D Am
Do you remember what they called up to you and me, in our window?
C Em D Am
There is a rusty light on the pines tonight, sun pouring wine, lord, or marrow
C Em D
Into the bones of the birches and the spires of the churches juttin' out from the
Am
shadow
C Em D Am
and the yoke and the axe, and the old smokestacks, and the bale and the barrow
C Em D
and everything sloped like it was dragged from the rope in the mouth of the
Am
south below
[Verse 2]
F A E F#m
We've seen those mountains kneeling, felten and grey
F A E F#m
We thought our very hearts would up and melt away
D Amaj7 E F#m
From the snow in the nighttime, just going, and going
D Amaj7 E F#m
and the stirrin' of windchimes, in the mornin', in the mornin'
Bm E Bm E
Helps me find my way back in
Bm E Bm E
From the place where I have been
[Verse 3]
C#m F#
and Emily, I saw you last night by the river!
C#m F#
I dreamed you were skippin' little stones across the surface of the water!
G#m B A C#m
Frowning at the angle where they were lost and slipped under forever
G#m B A C#m
In a mud-cloud, mica-spangled, like the sky'd been breathing on a mirror
C#m F#
Anyhow -- I sat by your side, by the water
C#m F#
You taught me the names of the stars overhead that I wrote down in my ledger
G#m B A C#m
Though all I knew of the rote universe were those Pleiades loosed in December
G#m B A C#m
I promised you I'd set them to verse so I'd always remember
[Chorus]
C#m F#
That the meteorite is a source of the light, and the meteor's just what we see
G#m B A C#m
and the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee
C#m F#
and the meteorite's just what causes the light and the meteor's how it's
perceived
G#m B A
and the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet and offering to
C#m
thee
[Tiny Interlude] (still relative to capo)
e|---------0------------------------------|
B|------------4s2~------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------|
D|--4h5h6---------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------|
[Verse 4]
Amaj7 Em D Am
You came and lay a cold compress upon the mess I'm in
C Em D Am
Threw the windows wide and cried, "Amen! Amen! Amen!"
C Em D Am
The whole world stopped to hear you hollerin'
C Em D Am
Then you looked down and saw now what was happenin'
C Em D Am
The lines are fadin' in my kingdom
C Em D Am
Though I have never known a way to border 'em in
C Em D Am
So the muddy mouths of baboons and sows and the grouse and the horse and the hen
C Em D Am
Grope at the gate of the looming lake that was once a tidy pen
C Em D Am
and the mail is late and the great estates are not lit from within
C Em D Am
The talk in town's becomin' downright sickenin'!
[Verse 5]
F A E F#m
In due time we will see the far buttes lit by a flare
F A E F#m
I've seen your bravery and I will follow you there
D Amaj7 E F#m
and row through the nighttime, so healthy, gone healthy all of a sudden
D Amaj7 E F#m
In search of a midwife who can help me, who can help me
Bm E Bm E
Help me find my way back in
Bm E Bm E
and there are worries where I've been
[Verse 6]
C#m F#
and say, say, say, in the lee of the bay, don't be bothered!
C#m F#
Leave your troubles here where the tugboats shear the water from the water
G#m B A C#m
Flanked by furrows, curling back like a match held up to the newspaper
C#m F#
Emily, they'll follow your lead by the letter!
C#m F#
and I make this claim, and I'm not ashamed to say I knew you better!
G#m B A C#m
For what they've seen is just a beam of your sun that banishes winter
C#m F#
Let us go! Though we know it's a hopeless endeavor,
C#m F#
The ties that bind; they are barbed and spined and hold us close forever!
G#m B A
Though there is nothing would help me come to grips with a sky that is gaping and
C#m
yawning
G#m B A C#m
There is a song I woke with on my lips as you sailed your great ship towards the
morning
[Verse 7]
C Em D Am
Come on home, the poppies are all grown knee-deep by now
C Em D Am
Blossoms all have fallen, and the pollen ruins the plow
C Em D Am
Peonies nod in the breeze, and while they wetly bow
C Em D Am
With hydrocephalitic listlessness, ants mop up their brows
C Em D Am
and everything with wings is restless, aimless, drunk and dour
C Em D Am
Butterflies and birds collide at hot, ungodly hours
C Em D Am
and my clay-coloured motherlessness rangily reclines
C Em D Am
Come on home, now! All my bones are dolorous with vines!
[Verse 8]
F A E F#m
Pa pointed out to me, for the hundredth time tonight
F A E F#m
The way the Ladle leads to a dirt-red bullet of light
D A E F#m
Squint skyward and listen, loving him, we move within his borders
D A E F#m
Just asterisms in the stars set order
D A E F#m
We could stand for a century, staring with our heads cocked
D A E F#m
In the broad daylight at this thing -- Joy! Landlocked!
D A E F#m
In bodies that don't keep, dumbstruck with the sweetness of being!
D A E F#m
'til we don't be told, take this, and eat this!
[Chorus]
C Em D Am
Told: The meteorite is a source of the light, and the meteor's just what we see!
C Em D Am
and the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee!
C Em D
and the meteorite's just what causes the light and the meteor's how it's
Am
perceived!
C Em D Am
and the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet and offering to
C
thee!
[Outro]
(C) Em D Am
C Em D Am x5
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