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Underneath the Weeping Willow
By Grandaddy
Arranged by Jason Lytle

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Jason Lytle plays this in an interview and has played it live at some other places. This
sounds good on the guitar and the piano, although, the piano is more suited to the
I figure. I originally did this for a friend on the talkscape forums, which are a lot
Here you go Stainy.

for coordination on with the song and the strumming pattern, watch Jason rock away here:

Standard tuning:

Chords:

[G/F]
[F/E]

e[---0----0----0----0----3-----1------1---------]
B[---1----1----0----1----0-----0------1---------]
G[---0----2----0----2----0-----0------2---------]
D[---2----3----2----2----0-----0------3---------]
A[---3----3----2----0----2-----2------3---------]
E[-----------------------3-----3----------------]

I wanna sleep… underneath the weeping willow

As it cries all night quietly…

It’s tears all around me

I’ll sleep here so soundly… Until

I’m aloud finally

[G/F] To wake..and be happy again

[F/E]

G G/f# G/F C
C~
To wake..and be happy again

Jason plays a variation of hammer on picking which he releases the string he’s playing
a chord and hammers it back into it’s place, which creates the essence of the weeping
If you listen close enough it’s easy to figure out.

Thank you, and thanks Stainy.

(Skateboarding.. Skateboarding saves me twice)

But the bridge goes:

It should be quite easy to figure it out from there!
Enjoy 🙂

B F#Aug E F# F#7

e[—————-0—–2—–2——]
B[—-4—–4—–0—–2—–5——]
G[—-4—–4—–1—–3—–3——]
D[—-4—–5—–2—–4—–2——]
A[—-2———–2—–4—–4——]
E[—————-0—–2—–2——]

B F#Aug E
On the telephone all morning

it’s been a while since I talked to you

B F#Aug E
your voice it transferred sweet

I wish forever I could talk to you

B F#Aug E
of course I blame that guy Tom

I’m sure he talked you into doing it

B F#Aug E
although I’m sorry he’s dead

F# F#7 B ~
when you go to him I kill him again…

and again…and again…

B F#Aug E
keep trying at the tapes and records

I thought you loved them over anything

B F#Aug E
this conversation’s hard for me and stupid

but we had to do it

B F#Aug E
you drove your car into a moving train

you held each other headed for the end

B F#Aug E
and then you say it went blank

now here you are with just a few days left

B F#Aug E
keep trying at the tapes and records

I thought you want them over anything

B F#Aug E
this conversation’s hard for me and stupid

but we had to do it

(Verse)
I took your advice
And fixed my radio
But I can’t find anything
That sounds good anymore

(Break)

(Verse)
I took your advice
And bought the microscope
But I can’t find anything
I wanna see up close

(Break)
(x4)

Why took your advice?

Verse 1:
The tale I’m gonna tell
Is about the group who couldn’t say
Together they discovered with each other
The perfection of an outdoor day
They had won some kinda prize
For selling way more stuff than the other guys
They were the shrewdest unit-movers
So their bosses got ‘em tours of the countryside

Doo doo doo dit doo

Doo doo doo dit doo

Verse 2:
Holly saw a certain bird
But she couldn’t work up any words
She kinda lost her shoes and lost her mind
And smashed her phone upon a fallen pine
And Darryl couldn’t talk at all
He wondered how the trees had grown to be so tall
He calculated all the height and width and density
For insurance purposes

Chorus 1:
And at the desktop there’s crying sounds
For all the projects due
And no one else is around
And the sprinklers that come on at 3 am
Sound like crowds of people asking
“Are you happy what you’re doing?”

Ah ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah ah

Chorus 2:
And at the desktop there’s crying sounds
For all the projects due
And no one else is around
And the sprinklers that come on at 3 am
Sound like crowds of people asking
“Are you happy what you’re doing?”

Verse 3:
Becky wondered why
She’d never noticed dragonflies
Her drag and click had never yielded
Anything as perfect as a dragonfly
And then the supervisor stood right
In the creek and it felt really good
And that’s about the time he finally had realized
The importance of this day
And that’s about the time he realized
That he was with the group who couldn’t say (hey hey)
And it felt so good it hurt, forget the words
They were the group who couldn’t say