Frank Turner – The Armadillo (Guitar)
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Chords
---The Armadillo (Flanders & Swann Cover)
---Mittens EP
Here's a fairly simplified version of how Frank plays this great song.
Feel free to correct any mistakes, I'm still a rookie at this :)
EADGBe
A7 x02020
Am x02210
Am7 x02010
B7 x21202
Bm x24432
Bm#5 x20033
C x32010
C/B x20010
D xx0323
Dadd4/F# 2x0033
Em 022000
F# 244322
G 320033
G5 3x0033
--Riff: e|------------------------------------------------------------------ B|----------3---3---3---3---3---3---1-----------1h3p1--------------- G|----------0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---------------0-------0--- D|------0-----------------------------------2---------------2------- A|------------------2---2---2---2---0------------------------------- E|--3-------2---2--------------------------------------------------- --Interlude: e|------------------------------------------- B|--1------0--------------------------------- G|--0------0-------2-------0--------0----2--- D|-----------------2-------2-------2/4---0--- A|------2------2-------2-------2------------- E|-------------------------------------------
[Riff x2]
G5 Dadd4/F# Bm#5 Am7 D I was taking compass bearings for the Ordanance Survey G5 Dadd4/F# Bm#5 A7 Am7 D On an army training camp on Salisbury plain. Bm Em Am D I had packed up my theodolite, I was calling it a day B7 Em When I heard a voice that sang a sad refrain:
[Interlude]
G5 Dadd4/F# Bm#5 Am7 D Oh my darling armadillo, let me tell you of my love, G5 Dadd4/F# Bm#5 A7 Am7 D Listen to my armadillo roundelay. Bm Em Am D Be my fellow on my pillow underneath this weeping willow, C C/B Am7 D Be my darling armadillo all the day.
[Riff x2]
G5 Dadd4/F# Bm#5 Am7 D I was somewhat disconcerted by this curious affair G5 Dadd4/F# Bm#5 A7 Am7 D For a single armadillo, you alone, Bm Em Am D On Salisbury plain in summer is comparitively rare B7 Em And a pair of them is practically unknown. Bm Em F# Bm Drawn by that mellow solo, there I followed on my bike Em Am7 Em B7 Em To discover what these armadillo lovers might be like.
[Interlude]
G5 Dadd4/F# Bm#5 Am7 D Oh my darling armadillo how delightful it would be G5 Dadd4/F# Bm#5 A7 Am7 D If for us those silver wedding bells should chime. Bm Em Am D Let the orange blossoms billow, you need only say I will, oh C C/B Am7 D Be my darling armadillo all the time.
[Riff x2]
Bm Em F# Bm Then I saw them in a hollow on a yellow muddy bank; Em Am7 Em B7 Em An armadillo singing to an armour-plated tank.
--Simply pick the following notes throughout this next part:
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Should I tell him gaunt and rusting with the willow tree above,
This abandoned on-manoeuvres is the object of your love?
Bm Em F# Bm I left him to his singing, I cycled home without a pause. Em Am7 Em B7 Em Never tell a man the truth about the one that he adores. G5 Dadd4/F# Bm#5 Am7 D On the breeze that followed sunset I could hear that sad refrain G5 Dadd4/F# Bm#5 A7 Am7 D Singing willow, willow, willow down the way. Bm Em Am D And I seem to hear it still oh vive l'amour, vive l'armadillo, C C/B Am7 D G Be my darling armadillo all the day. C C/B Am7 D G Be my darling armadillo all the day.