mewithoutYou – Elephant In The Dock (Guitar)
Key
-
Versions
(2)
Guitar Tab
Guitar
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
Ten Stories
Tabbed by Matt Giesmann
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Notes:
-Tough vocal phrasing
-For playing acoustically, I fingerpick between the recording and a full strum
-For precise picking, which doesn't exactly follow these chords, see the 'tab' for this song
-In the chorus, slide is optional. I slide 3 half steps up to Dm instead of the octave slide
Verses Choruses
F#m A E... Bm A F#m Bm
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================================================================================[Intro]
F#m A E F#m
F#m A E E
[Narrator:]
F#m A E F#m Pillary stocks at the gallows tree dock F#m A E E the crowd grew impatient as the clouds threatened rain F#m A E F#m Elephant arrived at the Constable's side, F#m A E E with her trunk locked in shackles, and her ankles in chains
[Bailiff:]
F#m A E F#m "All rise, all rise, his Honor presides," F#m A E E the Judge took the bench to the village brass cavalcade, F#m A E Elephant refused to swear the oath, said
[Elephant:]
F#m F#m "I don't know anything about truth, A E but I know falsehood when I see it, E F#m A E F#m F#m A E E and it looks like this whole world you've made" F#m A E F#m Good of our chaplain to sail Kalispell Bay F#m A E E And now down on his marrows for this old fool to pray, F#m A E F#m "Lord, for sixty-some years I've surrendered my love, F#m A E E to emblems of kindness, and not the kindness they were emblems of, F#m A E F#m Trammels and rings, with the strength of old strings, F#m A E E and some hobble skirt spring, by the old problem caught, F#m A E F#m Children, sometimes I think all our thoughts are just things, F#m A E and then sometimes think things are just thoughts," E and the rabble rang
[Crowd:]
Bm A F#m Bm "Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang! Bm A F#m Bm Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang!"
[Elephant:]
F#m A E F#m "A thirteen coil knot for the samovar pot! F#m A E E Scottish Oatcakes in haversacks each to its grave F#m A E F#m This mock trial can no more determine my lot, F#m A E than can driftwood determine the ocean's waves, E F#m A E F#m Brandish your ropes and your boards, and your basket-hilt swords, F#m A E E but what is there can punish like a conscience ignored? F#m A E Yes, my body did just as you implied, F#m F#m A E while some ghost we'll call 'I' idly watched through its eyes," E and the jury sang, Bm A F#m Bm "Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang! Bm A F#m Bm Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang! Bm A F#m Bm Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang! Bm A F#m Bm Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang!"
[Elephant:]
Bm F#m I feel it stealing now Bm F#m I feel it stealing now Bm F#m I feel it stealing now Bm All adrift fathoms down