Sufjan Stevens – Barcarola You Must Be A Christmas Tree (Guitar)
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Chords
This song is in 3/4.
The first G of every stanza can be done as a little G - Gsus4 - G figure if you want some ornamentation.
[Intro]
G - Dm - F - C
G - Dm - F
[Verse]
G Dm Oh, no one else is happily F C G Recklessly asking for more than Dm What they may need F I can't say what I need
[Verse 2]
G Dm Oh, temper what you say if you've F C Nothing nice to say G Dm So my grandmother says to me F With her heart on her sleeve
[Verse 3]
G Dm So, sadly I left the door F C G Dm Open and I let the dog out in the snow F Oh where did she go?
[Verse 4]
G Dm F Oh, father friend, will you punish me, punish me C G Dm With a look of contempt, with a look of contempt F I can recall
[Verse 5]
G Dm F Oh, I know you did right by me, right by me C G Dm Wagging your hands when you found me F With a bag of your things
[Verse 6]
G Dm Please, please don't be a stranger here F C G A stranger who takes from the world Dm F Who takes from the world
[Verse 7]
G Dm F You, you must be a Christmas tree, a Christmas tree C G Dm You light up the room, oh, you light up the room F Oh you light up the room
[Verse 8]
G Dm So, suddenly you kiss me F C G You tickled me in front of your mother Dm Who looked away F With her hands on her face
[Instrumental break]
G - Dm - F - C
G - Dm - F
[Coda]
(quietly, building over next four stanzas)
G Don't run away my friend Dm You won't be back again C You said you needed me G But I know that you needed yourself to be cleaned of me G Don't run away my friend Dm You won't be back again C You said you needed me G But I know that you needed yourself to be cleaned of me G Don't run away my friend Dm You won't be back again C You ran your hands through my hair in the snow G Where the frost of it blows with the terrible ghost G Don't run away my friend Dm You won't be back again C You said you needed me
G (hold)
But I know...
[Instrumental break]
G - G7 - Dm - F, repeat ad infinitum