Belle and Sebastian – Piazza New York Catcher (Ukulele)

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---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: squizz Email: [email protected] This is exactly the same as the original except all the chords have been moved up a semitone, so that none of the chords specifically have to be barred. If you want you can tune your guitar down half a step to achieve the sound on the record.
G                                     C              G
Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll sail around the world

Am                            Em
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl

     Am                          D
How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?

     Am                             D
How many nights of limping round on pagan holidays?

      C                               Em
Oh elope with me in private and we’ll set something ablaze

   Am            D         Em
A trail for the devil to erase

G                               C                    G
San Francisco’s calling us, the Giants and Mets will play

Am                                Em
Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay?

   Am                            D
We hung about the stadium, we’ve got no place to stay

   Am                            D
We hung about the tenderloin and tenderly you tell

          C                              Em
About the saddest book you ever read, it always makes you cry

    Am              D               Em
The statue’s crying too and well he may

  G                                C            G
I love you I’ve a drowning grip on your adoring face

  Am                      Em
I love you my responsibility has found a place 

  Am                                  D
Beside you and strong warnings in the guise of gentle words

     Am                          D
Come wave upon me from the wider family net absurd

             C                                Em
“You’ll take care of her, I know it, you will do a better job”

Am         D              Em
Maybe, but not what she deserves

  G                                  C               G
Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll drink ourselves awake

      Am                            Em
We’ll taste the coffee houses and award certificates

  Am                             D
A privy seal to keep the feel of 1960 style

      Am                             D
We’ll comment on the decor and we’ll help the passer by

       C                               Em
And at dusk when work is over we’ll continue the debate

     Am               D             Em
In a borrowed bedroom virginal and spare

    G                         C             G
The catcher hits for .318 and catches every day

    Am                              Em
The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays

   Am                            D
He goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floor

   Am                                     D
He knows the drink affects his speed he’s praying for a doorway

       C                                Em
Back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench

Am               D            Em
Life outside the diamond is a wrench

  G                                  C             G
I wish that you were here with me to pass the dull weekend

  Am                                Em
I know it wouldn’t come to love, my heroine pretend

  Am                              D
A lady stepping from the songs we love until this day

      Am                          D
You’d settle for an epitaph like “Walk Away, Renee”

          C                               Em
The sun upon the roof in winter will draw you out like a flower

Am              D            Em
Meet you at the statue in an hour

Am              D            Em
Meet you at the statue in an hour