Nerina Pallot – Skeletons (Guitar)

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I've had a quick look around, and couldn't find a tab to Ricky Lee Jones' (also beautiful) original version of this, but this is what I tabbed out a little while ago. I'm not one hundred percent certain, but I think the chords are the same throughout. This is a simplified version of the piano part at the start. And/or the melody line. You might want to slide the notes a little, though.

e|------8-7-7-------7-5-------5-3---------5-2-|
B|--------------------------------------------|
G|7-7-7-------7-5-5-----4-4-4-----7-4-2-2-----|
D|--------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------|

[Verse]

        G
She was pregnant in May

    C
Now they're on their way

G
Dashing through the snow

       D
To St. John's, here we go

         G
Well, it could be a boy

         C
But it's okay if he's girl

           G
Oh, these things that grow out of

     D
The things that we give

[Bridge]

           C           G
We should move to the West side

       F
They still believe in things

      Dm7         G
That give a kid half a chance

[Instrumental] G C G D [Verse]

G
When he pulled off the road

           C
Step in a waltz of red moon-beams

G
Said he fit an APB’d

 D
Robbery nearby

        G
And he go for his wallet

          C                          G
And they thought he was going for a gun

               D
And the cops blew Bird away

G                        C
Some kids like watching Saturday cartoons

G                                 D
Some girls like to listen to records in their rooms

            G                          C               F
But what do birds leave behind of the wings that they came with

       G                         D          
If your son's in a tree building model planes?

[Outro]

G
Skeletons,

C     F       G F G
Skeletons