The Decemberists – Joan In The Garden (Guitar)

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[Verse]
C
In a book I found

C           Am G
[tab]C
I will write this down

C              Am    Am/G   F
I will lay her heart in mine
[Pre-Chorus]
       Am
For a time

         G
Write a line

         C
Erase a line
[Verse]
C
In the dawning light (In the dawning light)

C              Am  G
As she left her body

C
Gifted second sight (Gifted second sight)

C               Am Am/G  F
Did she lay her dowry by
[Pre-Chorus]
       Am
Lay it by

         G
Write a line

         C
Erase a line
Cadd9 C F [Chorus]
F
And if you listen closely

Am
You can hear them singing

G
Ho, oh oh, oh oh

G
Ho, oh oh, oh oh

F
And if you listen closely

Am
You can hear them singing

G
Ho, oh oh, oh oh

G                      C
Ho, oh oh, oh oh, Hosanna
[Verse] C
C
Make her ten miles tall (Make her ten miles tall)

C                   Am   G
Make her arms cleave mountains

C
Let her temptors fall (Let her temptors fall)

C                   Am   Am/G    F
Make her tears weep fountains by
[Pre-Chorus]
       Am
Now to try

         G
Write a line

        C
Erase a line
Cadd9 C F [Chorus]
F
And if you listen closely

Am
You can hear them singing

G
Ho, oh oh, oh oh

G
Ho, oh oh, oh oh

F
And if you listen closely

Am
You can hear them singing

G
Ho, oh oh, oh oh

G                      C
Ho, oh oh, oh oh, Hosanna
C -------------------------- Cycle between F for 4 measures, and then Am for 4 measures Gradually strum more intense as the other instruments come in Do this as many times as you like :) [Verse]
F
Just another tinsel ornament

                 Am
Another troubled sky

F
We are folded in the firmament

               Am
Catch us as we fly

F
I don't remember what I ought to be

                   Am
I only know what's right

F
I'm suspended from the orrery

              Am
Bursting into light

F
If you listen closely
You can hear them singing
Am
Ho, hosanna, hosanna

F
If you listen closely
You can hear them singing
Am                      F
Ho, hosanna, hosanna yeah

          Am
Hosanna yeah

                    F
Hosanna, hosanna yeah

          Am
Hosanna yeah

                    F
Hosanna, hosanna yeah

          Am
Hosanna yeah
F Am -------------------------- (15:53) [Intro] Am G F E x4 [Verse]
Am   C
Over stone and grapevine

G        F
Over the souls on the breadline

Am        G            F
There's a reckoning at hand

    E
Our hand

Am       C
See them flayed at the flagpole

G        F
Catch it all on your console

Am      G                  F
We have come at your command

   E
We stand
We stand [Interlude] Am G F E x2 [Verse]
Am      C
Blessed babe on display

G         F
Break her skull on the parquet

Am      G         F
Wayward mariner awake!

   E
We pray

Am     C
She is daughter and son

G      F
The imperium undone

Am     G              F
All the autocrats are laid

E
To waste
To waste [Interlude] Am G F E x2 (Play along with song for the synth solo) [Solo] Dm E Am G F E F G E Am Dm E Am G F E F G Abdim [Verse]
Am      C
Oh holy whore androgyne

G       F
Come and sunder the stop signs

Am      G
Break it all so we can build

F       E
Again

Am      C
Bring on duke or dauphin

G       F
Blood will flow like a fountain

Am      G
As it ever was so it

F       E
Will be again
Will be again
Am      G
As it ever was so it

F       E
Will be again
Will be again
Am      G
As it ever was

F          E
So it will be again, again
[Outro]
Am   G      F        E
Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna yeah

Am   G      F        E
                  Hosanna yeah

Am   G      F        E
                  Hosanna yeah
Am G F E x2 Am