Phoebe Bridgers – Smoke Signals (Guitar)

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Artist: Phoebe Bridgers Song: Smoke Signals NOTE: I've made this chord chart for myself and for the folks who 1) own a capo, 2) are gonna sing it in a lower (or higher) key, 3) don't want to use Phoebe's alternate tuning, but 4) do want easy fingering patterns. I've studied the excelent tab version that's here in UG (https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/phoebe-bridgers/smoke-signals-tabs-2018777), then got the album's version into Audacity and altered the pitch half a step, so the recording would match my guitar's tuning (Eb). I think I was able to get everything as right as I possibly could. You can either play it using strumming or fingerpicking. If you chose the second option and also have your guitar tuned in D, you'd be able to generate fairly the same notes of the original recording, without much effort. UPDATE: I'Be just recorded this exact version, if you guys wanna check it out: https://www.instagram.com/tv/Cav08PPpjBQ [CHORDS] G6add11: 320010 Am: x02210 D7sus2: xx0210 F7+* (F7+omit3): xx3x10 ... F7+ (xx3210) or F7+sus2 (xx3010) also sound good [CHORD SEQUENCES] G6add11*: G6add11 G6add11/E G6add11/B C*: C C/E Csus2/B [Intro]

G6add11   Am    D7sus2   F7+*
(x2)

[Verse]

  G6add11
I went with you up to

    Am
The place you grew up in,

D7sus2                 F7+*
We spent a week in the cold

G6add11
Just long enough to

Am
Walden it with you,

    D7sus2                 F7+*
Any longer it would've got old

        G6add11
Singing "Ace of Spades" when Lemmy died

    Am
But nothing's changed

       D7sus2     F7+*
L.A.'s all right

    G6add11
I'm sleeping in my bed again

    Am
And getting in my head and then

D7sus2                    F7+*
Walk around the reservoir

[Chorus]

G6add11*    Am
You,

    D7sus2                   F7+*
You must've been looking for me

        G6add11*  Am
Sending smoke        signals

D7sus2        F7+*
Pelicans circling

        Am       G6add11    F7+*
Burning trash out        on   the beach

[Instrumental] G6add11 Am D7sus2 F7+* [Verse]

G6add11
One of your eyes is

Am
Always half shut

          D7sus2                   F7+*
Something happened when you were a kid

G6add11                     Am
I didn't know you then and I'll never understand

D7sus2              F7+*
Why it feels like I did

G6add11                  Am
"How Soon Is Now?" in an eighties sedan,

D7sus2                  F7+*
You slept inside of it, because your dad

G6add11                      Am
Lived in a campground in the back of a van, you said

D7sus2                       F7+*
That song will creep you out until you're dead

[Chorus]

    C*   Am
And you,

D7sus2                   F7+*
Must've been looking for me

        G6add11*  Am
Sending smoke        signals

D7sus2        F7+*
Pelicans circling

        Am       G6add11    F7+*
Burning trash out        on   the beach

[Instrumental] C* Am D7sus2 F7+* [Verse]

G6add11               Am
I want to live at the Holiday Inn

      D7sus2                  F7+*
Where somebody else makes the bed

G6add11                   Am
We'll watch TV while the lights on the street

D7sus2               F7+*
Put all the stars to death

          G6add11
It's been on my mind since Bowie died

     Am              D7sus2    F7+*
Just checking out to hide from life

    G6add11              Am
And all of our problems, I'm gonna solve 'em

     D7sus2
With you riding shotgun

F7+*
Speeding 'cause fuck the cops

[Chorus]

G6add11*   Am
You,

    D7sus2                   F7+*
You must've been looking for me

        G6add11*  Am
Sending smoke        signals

D7sus2        F7+*
Pelicans circling

        Am       G6add11    F7+*
Burning trash out        on   the beach

[Instrumental] G6add11 Am D7sus2 F7+* [Verse]

  G6add11
I buried a hatchet

     Am
It's coming up lavender,

    D7sus2                  F7+*
The future's unwritten, the past is a corridor

G6add11
I'm at the exit

Am
Looking back through the hall

D7sus2             F7+*
You are anonymous, I am a concrete wall

[Outro]

G6add11*    Am    D7sus2    F7+*
(x4)