Joanna Newsom – You And Me Bess (Guitar)

C             D
we picked our way

Bb           Ebmaj7
down to the beach

Cm           F              Bb         Gm
watching the waves dragging out of our reach

Am7        Ab          F       C
tangling tails like a sodden sheet

   Am7     Ab            F         C
dangling entrails from the gut of the- sea

C           D
hoarding our means

  Bb        Ebmaj7
alfalfa and rose

Cm            F              Bb         Gm
trying not to catch the cold eye of the gulls

   Am7         Ab       F            C
i hope mother nature has not overheard

           Am7       Ab          F        C
though she doles out hurt like a puking bird

C               E
stayed for the winter

D        F#m               C         Em
  no one told us about the laws of the land

Bb        Dm
i hold my own

    C               E
but you with your hunger

D          F#m       C   Em
you on the other hand

Bb            Dm
make yourself known

    C             D
and when we were found

  Bb           Ebmaj7
i know we both grieved

    Cm            F              Bb           Gm
my heart made the sound of snow falling from eaves

Am7          Ab
you and me, bess

   F                  C
we were as thick as thieves

     Am7         Ab
so i swore nonetheless

F                      C
up and down it was only me

       C         D
so they took me away

    Bb          Ebmaj7
and after some time

Cm          F
studying my case

       Bb            Gm
must've made up their minds

Am7            Ab       F      C
by the time you realized i was dying

Am7              Ab
must've been too late

   F                   C
i believe you were not-uh lying

C         E      D            F#m          C         Em
it is the day i    wake with my ears cocked up like a dawn

Bb       Dm
like everyday, of course

C            E            D           F#m
yanked by my wrist to the sugar front courtyard

         C            Em
nah tell me what have i done

Bb           Dm
seems i have stolen a horse

    C              E
and escaped to the gallows

D        F#m                C     Em
  who do you think that you are

Bb        Dm
arching your hooves like a queen

C       E      D           F#m      C      Em
in the shallow gutter that line the boulevards

Bb           Dm
crowded with folks who just

C         D
stare as i hang

Bb            Ebmaj7
it's all the same

Cm             F
kindness comes over me

 Bb          Gm
what was your name

Am7          Ab
it makes no difference

    F                 C
I'm glad that you came

    Am7      Ab              F      C
forever i'll listen to your gla-a-d name