Joanna Newsom – Emily (Guitar)
Capo 3
Key
-
Versions
(2)
Guitar
Ukulele
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
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 Am Into the bones of the birches and the spires of the churches juttin' out from the shadow C Em D Am and the yoke and the axe, and the old smokestacks, and the bale and the barrow C Em D Am and everything sloped like it was dragged from the rope in the mouth of the 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 C#m and the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet and offering to 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 C#m Though there is nothing would help me come to grips with a sky that is gaping and 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 Am and the meteorite's just what causes the light and the meteor's how it's perceived! C Em D Am C and the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet and offering to thee!
[Outro]
(C) Em D Am
C Em D Am x5