Anaïs Mitchell – Morning Glory (Guitar)

Open D (D-A-D-F#-A-D) • Video Lesson
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Chords

(plus a lovely story about the song): https://youtu.be/luBL-g-Wu3E The song has 2 guitars, but I focused on the part Anais plays. The intro and verses are mostly 3 chords. Open D (000000), G/D (020120), and then slide the G/D shape up two frets which is close to A/C# (040340). Instead of the open D, sometimes she'll slide up to 5, 7, 12. E.x. from 0/7 on the 6th string (low D) or 0/5 on the 5th string (A). For the intro a verses, the chord progression repeats but the rhythm changes so be sure to listen to the song. D: 000000 G/D: 020120 A/C#: 040340 Bm: 020020 E5: 220100 F#5: 440300 G5: 550000 [Intro] D G/D A/C# G/D D G/D A/C# G/D D G/D A/C# G/D D G/D A/C# [Verse 1]
D       G/D    A/C#
Morning glory, pretty little flower

G/D    D            G/D           A/C#
Always waking up before me in the early morning hours

      G/D          D              G/D                A/C#
Never knew until I met you how to bloom before the dawn.

G/D D          G/D              A/C#
How long, how long have I been sleeping?
[Instrumental] D G/D A/C# G/D D G/D A/C# G/D D G/D A/C# G/D D G/D A/C# [Verse 2]
D       G/D    A/C#
Morning glory, couldn't stay in bed

G/D    D                 G/D       A/C#
Had to get up bright and early and climb the walls instead

        G/D             D             G/D         A/C#
Running wild around the house now the house is overrun

G/D D          G/D              A/C#
How long, how long have I been sleeping?
[Bridge]
        Bm                             D
And the sun is coming out, it's a new day

         Bm                              D
And it's better than the one that came before

         Bm                            E5
And it's better than it was before you came

           F#5           G5
You're the one I wake up for
[Verse 3]
D       G/D    A/C#
Morning glory, how could I have known

G/D    D            G/D           A/C#
That I had grown so world weary before you came along

      G/D                 D
With your tender arms outstretched

      G/D                 D
And the trumpet of your mouth

      G/D                 D
And your eyes all dewy wet

      G/D             D
And always on the lookout

        G/D                 D
for the bright side of the world

      G/D              A/C#      G/D  D
Been a long time since I've seen how long

    G/D       A/C#      D         E5
How long, how long, how long, how long

    F#5              G5              D
How long have I been slee--ping?