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Leaving The City by Joanna Newsom
Leaving The City
Capo:no capo
Chords
E A D G B e
D5 x x 0 2 3 x
Dm x x 0 2 3 1
F 1 3 3 2 1 1
F5 x x 3 5 6 x
Gm 3 5 5 3 3 3
Bb5 x x x 3 6 6
C5 x 3 5 5 x x
C x 3 2 0 1 0
Bb x 1 3 3 3 1
A5 x 0 2 2 x x
Am x 0 2 2 1 0
Dbass x x 0 x 3 x
Ebass x x 2 x x 0
Fbass x x 3 x x 1
Gbass x x x 0 x 3
Bbbass x x x 3 x 6
Abass x x x 2 x 5
C#bass x x x 6 x 8
[Intro - this tab]
D5 Dm
e|-----------------|-----3-1---0---1-----|-5-6-5-3-2---6-8-6-5-------------|
B|-----------------|-3-------------------|---------------------6-5h6p5---3-|
G|---2---2---2---2-|---------------------|---------------------------------|
D|-0---0---0---0---|---------------------|---------------------------------|
A|-----------------|---------------------|---------------------------------|
E|-----------------|---------------------|---------------------------------|
[Verse A]
Dm F Gm
Hay and a clean stall
A5 D5 Bb5 A5 Dm
And iv - y on a garden wall
F Gm
And a sign saying sold
A5 D5 Bb5 A5 Dm
And an old coat for the bad cold
[Instrumental]
Dm Am Dm D5
F Gm Bb C5
Bb A Dm
[Verse B]
D5 C5 Bb5
I believe in you
D5 C5 Bb5
Do you believe in me?
D5 C5 Bb5
What do you want to do?
D5 C5 Bb5
Are we leaving the city?
D5 C5 Bb5
On the black road
D5 C5 Bb5
Through the gold fields
D5 C5 Bb5
While the fiends are plowed
D5 C5 Bb5 Dm
Towards what we are allowed
[Verse C]
D5 F5
The bridle bends in idle hands
Bb5 D5
And slows your canter to a trot
F5 Bb5
We mean to stop in increments
D5 F5 Bb5
But can’t commit, we post and sit in impotence
D5 F5 Bb5
The harder the hit, the deeper the dent
D5 F5 Bb5
We seek our name, we seek out fame
D5 F5 Bb5
In our credentials, paned in glass
D5 F5 Bb5
Trying to master incidentals
D5 F5 Bb5
Bleach a collar, leech a dollar from our cents
D5 F5 Bb5
The longer you live, the higher the rent
[Verse B]
D5 F5 Bb5
Beneath a pale sky
D5 F5 Bb5
Beside the red barn
D5 F5 Bb5
Below the white clouds
D5 F5 Bb5
Is all we are allowed
D5 F5 Bb5
Here, the light will seep
D5 F5 Bb5
And the scythe will reap
D5 F5 Bb5
And spirit will rend
D5 F5 Bb5 D5
In counting toward the end
[Verse C]
Dbass Ebass
In December of that year
Fbass Gbass Abass
The word came down that she was here
Bbbass
The days were shorter
Cbass C#bass Bbass
I was sure if she came round
Abass Dbass
I’d hold my ground
Dbass Ebass Fbass
I can do what they alluded to
D5
A change that came to pass
F5 Bb5
And spring did range, weeping grass
D5 F5
And sleepless broke
Bb5 D5
Itself upon my winter glass
F5 Bb5
And I could barely breathe for seeing
D5 F5 Bb5
All the splintered light that leaked
D5 F5
A fish is fleeting, launched in flight
D5 D5
Unstaunched daylight, brightly bleeding
F5 Bb5
Bleached the night with dawn deleting
[Verse B]
D5 F5 Bb5
In that high sun
D5 F5 Bb5
After our good run
D5 F5 Bb5
When the spirit bends
D5 F5 Bb5
Beneath knowing it must end
D5 F5 Bb5
And that is all I want here
D5 F5 Bb5
To draw my gaunt spirit to bow
D5 F5 Bb5
Beneath what I am allowed
D5 F5 Bb5
Beneath what I am allowed
Dm F Bb
Beneath what I am allowed
Dm F Bb [repeat to fade]
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