Joanna Newsom – Sadie (Guitar)

Capo 4
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Chords

I used Hackenbush's tab, which is great by the way, I just made it into basic chords.
G  Bm  C  Bm     
[tab]G       Bm      C       Bm
you carry me home

       G  Bm  C  Bm
And bury this bone 

        G       Bm      C       Bm
and take this pine cone

Bm D      Am C  
Bury this bone to 

G             Gmaj7
Gnaw on it later

Em
Gnawing on the telephone

Bm      D               Am              C
Until then, we pray and suspend

       G                Gmaj7      Em
The notion that these lives do never end

G
And all day long we talk about mercy

G                                    C          D       G
Lead me to water, Lord, I sure am thirsty

G
Down in the ditch where I nearly served you

G                                    C          D       G
Up in the clouds where he almost heard you

C
And all that we built and all that we breathed

Em
And all that we spilt, or pulled up like weeds

G                                  C            D         G
Is piled up in back and it burns irrevocably

Em                                            C         D               G
And we spoke up in turns 'til the silence crept over me

G               Bm              C       Bm       
And bless you, and I deeply do

                G    Bm  C  Bm   
No longer resolute, oh and I call to you

G          Bm   C  Bm    
But the water go so cold

          G       Bm    C            Bm
And you do lose what you don't hold

              Bm        D       Am              C
This is an old song, these are old blues

        G               Gmaj7            Em
And this is not my tune, but it's mine to use

           Bm         D         Am                      C
And the seabirds where the fear once grew

G                       Gmaj7           Em
Will flock with a fury and they will bury what'd come for you

G
And down where I darn with the milk-eyed mender

G                       C       D       G
You and I, and a love so tender

G
Stretched on a hoop where I stitched this adage:

G                               C       D               G
"Bless our house and its heart so savage"

C
And all that I want, and all that I need

Em
And all that I've got is scattered like seed

G                               C               D        G
And all that I knew is moving away from me

Em                              C               D               G
And all that I know is blowing like tumbleweed

        G               Bm              C               Bm
And the mealy worms in the brine will burn

        G       Bm              C                  Bm
In a salty pyre among the fauns and ferns

             G          Bm                  C           Bm
And the love we hold, and the love we spurn

                G       Bm      C       Bm
Will never grow cold, only taciturn

        G       Bm      C       Bm
And I'll tell you tomorrow

G       Bm      C               Bm
Sadie, go on home now

        G       Bm              C               Bm
And bless those who've sickened below

        G       Bm              C               Bm
And bless us who have chosen so

C
And all that I've got and all that I need

Em
I tie in a knot and I lay at your feet

G                                       C         D                G
And I have not forgot, but a silence crept over me

Em                              C                       D               G
So dig up your bone, exhume your pine cone, my Sadie