Josh Ritter – Monster Ballads (Guitar)

Capo 3
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Versions (3)

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Chords

[Intro] G [Verse 1]
G                      C/G         G
Radio waves are coming miles and miles

C/G                 G
Bringing only empty boats

                          C/G        G
Whatever feeling they had when they sailed

C/G                             G
Somehow slipped out between the notes
[Chorus]
Em                    C/G     G
Out on the desert and feeling lost

Em                      C/G    G
The bonnet wears a wire albatross

Em                      C/G             G
Monster ballads and the stations of the cross

D                     C/G
Sighing just a little bit

D                     C/G
Sighing just a little bit
[Verse 2]
G                             C/G  G
And I was thinking 'bout what Katy done

C/G                      G
Thinking 'bout what Katy did

                             C/G      G
The fairest daughter of the Pharoah's son

C/G                             G
Dressed in gold 'neath pyramids
[Chorus]
Em                    C/G     G
Out on the desert and feeling lost

Em                      C/G    G
The bonnet wears a wire albatross

Em                      C/G             G
Monster ballads and the stations of the cross

D                     C/G
Sighing just a little bit

D                     C/G
Sighing just a little bit
[Bridge]
C/G
Ones and zeroes bleeding mesa noise

G                                D
And when you're empty there's so much space for them

C/G
You turn it off but then a still, small voice

G                          D
Comes in blazing from some vast horizon
[Instrumental] G C/G G C/G G G C/G G C/G G Em C/G G Em C/G G Em C/G G D C/G D C/G G [Verse 3]
G                           C/G   G
And I was thinking 'bout my river days

C/G                             G
And I was thinking 'bout me and Jim

                   C/G   G
Passing Cairo on a getaway

C/G                         G
With every steamboat like a hymn
[Chorus]
Em                    C/G     G
Out on the desert and feeling lost

Em                      C/G    G
The bonnet wears a wire albatross

Em                      C/G             G
Monster ballads and the stations of the cross

D                     C/G
Sighing just a little bit

D                     C/G   G
Sighing just a little bit