Joanna Newsom – Soft As Chalk (Ukulele)

D      C
So, so long ago

G            D
And so far away

D        C        
When time was just a line

           G
That you fed me

                  D
When you wanted to stay

D             C
We'd talk as soft as chalk

       G                      D
Till morning came, as pale as a pearl

D          C
No time, no, no time

       G                         D
Now, I have got all the time in the world

D                Bb
Say, honey, did you belong to me

 Eb                      Dm                   F
Tell me, honey, was your heart at rest when, darling

                 C
All the mourning doves were howling us

  Bb                    Dm           C      Dm F  Dm
A song of love's oh god-awful lawlessness, law-less-ness!

D               Bb
Say, honey, did you belong to me

Eb                    Dm
Tell me, honey, did I pass your test

    F                         C
I lay, as still as death, until the dawn

            Bb                     Dm           C
Whereupon I wrested from your god-awful lawlessness,

Dm  F    Dm
Law-less-ness!

  D                 C
I roam around the tidy grounds

         G           C
Of my dappled sanatorium

D                        C
Coatless, I sit amongst the moles, adrift

       G                  D
And I dote upon my pinesap gum

        D                           C
And the light, through the pines in brassy tines

     G               D
Lays over me, dim as rum

      D                    C       
And thick as molasses, and so time passes

    G                      C
And so, my heart, tomorrow comes

D   
I feel you, leaning

     Bb
Out back with the crickets

      Eb                Dm
Loyal heart marking the soon-ness darkness

 F                         C
Tonight, still the mourning doves

                     Bb
Will summon us their song

               Dm             C      Dm  F  Dm
Of love's neverdoneing lawlessness, law-less-ness!

       D          
While, over and over

     Bb
Rear up, stand down, lay round

  Eb                      Dm
Trying to sound-out or guess the reasons

   F                     C
To sleep like a soldier, without rest

                   Bb
But there is no treason

               Dm          C     Dm F   Dm
Where there is only lawlessness, law-less-ness!

Dm, Bb, Gm, C
faster

       Eb
In the last week

                  Gm
Of the last year I was aware

            C#
I took a blind shot, across the creek

       G#
At the black bear

          Eb
When he roused me in the night

            C#
And left me cowering with my light

 G#      Fm
Who is there

      Cm
Who's there

       Eb
Who is there

   Eb
I watched you sleep

 Gm
Repeating my prayer

 C#
Give love a little shove

          G#
And it becomes terror

             Eb
And now I am calling

           C#
And beyond fear

G#     Fm
Who is there

      Cm
Who's there

      Eb
Who is there

 D
I glare and nod

         C
Like the character, God

        G                        D
Bearing down upon the houses and lawns

   D
I knew a little bit,

      C
But, darling, you were it

       G                                        C
And, darling, now it is long gone

D                   C
Sweetheart, in your clean, bright start

G                                D
Back there, behind a hill, and a dell

       D                        C
And a state line or two, I'll be thinking of you

              G                         D
Yes, I’ll be thinking and be wishing you well

 D             C                 G                 D
We land, I stand, but I wait for the sound of the bell

D          C                   G             C
I have to catch a cab and my bags are at the carousel

     D             C                  D         
And then Lord, just then, time alone will only tell