The Shins – September (Ukulele)

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Chords

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: Robert McMillan Email: mcmillan_ra (at) hotmail.com Riff 1
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B|-2--2-----0-------|
G|-2-----2-----2----|
D|-2--------------4-|
A|-0----------------|
E|------------------|
Riff 2
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D|---------------|
A|--0--2--4------|
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Verse =====
A         C               A
Into this strange elastic world

          C               A
Pont us kindly gave up a pearl

      D               G
His eternal stone and mud

                     D    D7  A
But ain't she lovely bone and blood

            C      A
Born of the sea

           Em    G         A
A thousand miles away from me

           D
A court of angels

             G
Wards of the sun
A future forming
  D     D7   A
A curse undone
Chorus ======= Riff 1
F#m        A             F#m                A
Under our softly burning lamp she takes her time
Riff 1
F#m      A             E
Telling stories of our possible lives

    G                                    E    A
And love is the ink in the well when her body writes
Riff 2
D          A                   D
I've been selfish and full of pride

              A                          D
And she knows deep down there's a little child

               A                  F#m
But I've got a good side to me as well

                  E                 D                 Dsus4 D
And it's that she loves in spite of everything else
Break ===== A C A Em G Verse =====
A             C                       A
A song in the tree has distracted her mind

             C                   A
Some other curious form of life

              D               G
Has made it's presence to her known

                       D    D7   A
And she coos so gently soft and low

            C                   A
Her shining face in a million reflections

        Em             G         A
in tiny raindrops that fall in a veil

          D                    G
Over our city like notes from above

                       D    D7    A
It overwhelms me! just aint that tough
Chorus ====== Riff 1
F#m                A                       F#m
It's not that the darkness can't touch our lives

                   A
I know it will, in time
Riff 1
F#m          A        E
But she's no ordinary valentine

     G
And now when the sun goes down

            E       A
she sheds a darling light.
Riff 2
D          A                   D
I've been selfish and full of pride

              A                          D
And she knows deep down there's a little child

               A                  F#m
But I've got a good side to me as well

                  E                 D                Dsus4 D
And it's that she loves in spite of everything else
Outro ===== A C A G D A Notes: Watching James Mercer play it live on youtube. He does little embellishments which add a fair bit to the song a little. But they aren't really necessary if you just want to bash it out. For example on the A chords he will generally play: A A/G A likewise on the C: C C/G C Corrections welcome.