Okkervil River – Auntie Alice (Guitar)

Capo 3

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Gadd11 320013 Cmaj7 (in this context) 022010 You can replace the Gadd11-G finger thing with the Cmaj7-Em one if you like. Or try C-Em, using the index finger and the pinky simultaneously to hit the Cs on the second and fifth strings. That actually sounds best to me. The important thing is the B-C-B-C note alternation for that riff.

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am        C
Auntie Alice, where are you now?

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am        C
We rung your number and they called it "disconnected."

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am        C
In a dream you come sailing out

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am        C
of a pool of deep blue water.

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am        C
Auntie Alice keeps spiders in her house,

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am        C
feeds them earwigs and mosquitoes.

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am        C
Her pink tongue comes darting out

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am        C
from where her front teeth are missing.

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G Am C G Am C

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am        C         
I went downstairs in the middle of the night

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am        C
'cause I heard her scratching at the door.

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am        C
She fed me chocolates and said she couldn't sleep,

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am        C
asked me what the bug light was for.

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am        C
Auntie Alice wears the same dress every day.

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am        C
Butter turns green on her counter.

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am        C
She sings me songs she learned on Christmas eve,

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am        C
tells me stories about castles.

Em Am C G Em Am C G D

                     G
"The number you have dialed

   C                   Em
is not in service" it said,

      Am          D
"hang up or dial again."

        C                                D
Auntie Alice have you found your palace yet?

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G Em Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 Em

Am  C
Gadd11 G Gadd11 G

Em Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 Em Am C G

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am      C
Auntie Alice, look out for us

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am      C
who think we know where we are going.

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am      C
Your picture gathers dust on the fridge

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am      C
and watches us keep our appointments.

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am      C
Auntie Alice howling through the woods,

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am      C
Auntie Alice in my dream,

Gadd11 G Gadd11 G  Am      C
somehow gone from the phone book for good.

G                  Am           G
Life forms around you when you leave.

--markik, with considerable help from http://tacowiki.net/tabs/auntie_alice and eternal thanks to Okkervil River