no capo. st. tuning

Honey pick the red corner shoes
The ones that hardly ever get used
I knelt in front of my whole collection
I’m picking you a special selection

On a no news is good news middle of mid-year day
I feel no ill with time to kill I wanna play

Let’s make peace tonight
The moon is bare and shining bright
Let’s make peace tonight in a good time

Callin’ on my good friends today
You know the drive’s about an hour away
We’ll be pitching up a tent by the trees
We’ll be wading in the river to our knees
Oh now love’s been planted & we’re checking out the yield
Two black dogs and a white one running in the field

Let’s make peace tonight
The moon is bare and shining bright
Let’s make peace tonight in a good time

We used to have some money but we spent it
So when we want to have it then we rent it
But we’re cuttin’ up the rug and I know you love me love me
And the best of everything here is free
Oh when things get messy then we tidy up the room
We’ll be no stranger to the dustpan and the broom

Let’s make peace tonight
The moon is bare & shining bright
Let’s make peace tonight
The moon is bare & shining bright
Let’s make peace tonight in a good time

[Verse 1]

Sticks and stones
Battle zones
A single light bulb on a single thread for the black

Sirens wail
History fails
Rose-colored glass begins to age and crack

While the politicians shadowbox the power ring
In an endless split decision never solve anything
From a neighbor’s distant land
I heard the strain of the common man

Let it be me
(this is not a fighting song)
Let it be me
(not a wrong for a wrong)
Let it be me
If the world is night
N.C G C G A C C D
Shine my life like a light

[Verse 2]

Well the world seems spent
And the president
Has no good idea Of who the masses are

Well I’m one of them
And I’m among friends
We’re trying to see beyond the fences in our own backyards

I’ve seen the kingdoms blow like ashes in the winds of change
But the power of truth is the fuel for the flame
So the darker the ages get
There’s a stronger beacon yet

Let it be me
(this is not a fighting song)
Let it be me
(not a wrong for a wrong)
Let it be me
If the world is night
N.C G
Shine my life like a light

In the kind word you speak
In the turn of the cheek
When your vision stays clear
In the face of your fear

Then you see turning out a light switch is their only power
When we stand like spotlights in a mighty tower
All for one and one for all
Then we sing the common call

Let it be me
(this is not a fighting song)
Let it be me
(not a wrong for a wrong)
Let it be me
If the world is night
N.C G
Shine my life like a light

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LEFT ME A FOOL (Emily Saliers)

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(Key of E (but actually in F#, so capo up 2 frets)
(I’m a little unsure about some of these chords; the songbook has some
mistakes, and I compiled these from the guitar part, the piano part, and my
ear. Maybe there should be some (9)’s on some of those naked chords, and
maybe some of those 6’s should be 7’s…)

[E/A](intro)[B/A][E(9)][F#(9)][A(9)][B(11)]

[E/A]Everybody l[B/A]oves you, and they [E7/A]want to know your story
You go r[E(9)]iding out a my[F#(9)]stery, conce[A(9)]aled in all your glory
But when it comes to flesh and bones, you remind me of Shallot
Only made of sh[A/B]adows, even though you’re n[A6/B]ot[-]

I remember how I spent all my energy and time
With affected conversation, trying to pry inside your mind
You are as beautiful as truth, and as empty as a shell
And I came to you one n[A/B]ight, and it made me feel like h[A6/B]ell

Ohhh, to reach through all your surface[A/B][-]
Just to find an empty pool[A/B][-]
And to suffer all your pride as I lay down by your side
And you swallowed up my he[A/B]art, and left me a fool[A/B]
Left me a [E/A]fool[B/A][A(9)][F#(9)][A(9)][B(11)]

Everybody loves a hero, an image to create
The antithesis of everything inside ourselves we hate
But you better close your eyes when it’s time for them to die
‘Cause you’d hate to think the life you’d built upon them was a lie

Ohhh, to reach through all your surface
Just to find an empty pool
And to suffer all your pride as I lay down by your side
And you swallowed up my heart, and left me a fool
Left me a fool

I resign myself to silence, I will never blow your cover
No one ever has to know who the hero took for lover
But it comes to mind as you blaze on, as brilliant as a star
How many you’ve left behind, how many casualties there are

Ohhh, to reach through all your surface
Just to find an empty pool
And to suffer all your pride as I lay down by your side
And you swallowed up my heart, and left me a fool
E/A B/A A(9) E F#(9) A(9) B(11) E.
Left me a fool

hammer-on or pull-off between two notes
This is the tab for the introduction. The rest of the song follows a
similar pattern.

[E/A] [B/A]

E ----------------|----------7-----|----------5-----|------5---------|
B 9---------9-----|7---------------|67---5---------|----------5-----|
G ------9-----9---|------8---------|----7---------6-|----6-------6---|
D ----9---------9-|----9-----------|------------7---|--7-----------7-|
A 0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .

[E(9)] [F#(9)] [A(9)] [B(11)]

E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------0-----|0---||
B ----------------|----------------|------0---5-----|------0---------|----||
G ----------4-----|--3-------3-----|--6---------6---|--8-----------8-|----||
D ------4-------0-|------6-------6-|----7---------7-|----9-------9---|----||
A ----2-------2---|----4-----------|0-------0-------|----------------|----||
E 0-------0-------|2-------2---2---|----------------|7-------7-------|7---||

^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^

NOTE: These chords are hard. I usually play this song 3 half-steps above the
way it’s written here (i.e., in the key of G). You can’t pick it correctly in
G, but the chords are far easier.

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capo on 4th fret

I wasn’t looking to shift my direction
My eyes straight ahead hands ten
and two

The gravity of our first connection
Veering off the road
and into you

All the people drive by slowly gawking at the scene
Of the smoldering inevitable spark and gasoline

All the way I
met you head on full speed
At the heart the blue flame burns

All
the way I took the crash course impact

But have I learned all that I’m
supposed to learn

No amount of playing safe could save me from
this day

The head seeking path of my trajectory

Didn’t we cooly
divest of predestination

Slamming into futures we can’t see

I
know what can happen when there’s more than meets the eye

But there’s no
way to avoid it just get in the car and drive

All the way I met
you head on full speed

At the heart the blue flame burns

All the
way I took crash course impact

But have I learned all that I’m supposed
to learn

It makes me laugh, we’re talking over tea

When
I can still smell the smoke on my sleeve

Steaming like gun smoke the
wreckage of our past

The scene of a crime I still can’t leave

Oh
you and me, we should let well enough be

But each revisitation points to
clues

There’s the oil slick of uncertainty

And warning signs back
there we didn’t use

At least we laugh about it now how we escaped alive

It’s remarkable the mess we make and what we can survive

Verse:
Well, I guess that I was lonely
thats why I called you on the phone
‘couse in a moment of forgiveness
I didn’t wanna be alone

and I guess that I was willin'
more than I ever was before
couse in a moment of forgiveness
I come a knockin’ at your door

Chorus:
Baby, I woke up cryin’ last night just to realize that you were gone
has it been two long years without you?
When are you gonna come home?

Verse: (GCG GCG EmCD GCG)
Well I guess that I was hopin’
that you’d finally understand
and in a moment of forgiveness
you’d reach out and take my hand

Refrain:
Baby, I know you’re not one for bearing witness
when you told me that one wrong move is gonna sell you out
I see that you kept your word and made it harder than it had to be
wish I could save you the trouble, baby
give you a little peace of mind

Chorus: (DCG EmCD)
Baby, I woke up cryin’ last night just to realize that you were gone
has it been two long years without you? Tell me now…
when are you gonna come home?

Verse: (GCG GCG EmCD GCG)
Well I guess that I was hopin’
that you’d finally understand
and in a moment of forgiveness
you’d reach out and take my hand

and in a moment of forgiveness
you’d reach out and take my hand

strum a D chord before you start singing.

Oh Ozilline, the moon is almost full
And you don’t need a torch light
To see into these woods
Sister, bring the medicine
To keep you from decline,
But it’s the waxing and the waning
That’s always on your mind.

Oh Ozilline, I feel for you.

As soon as the corn’s in,
The deer will come to feed.
When the berry ripens,
The bird will come to eat.
Build by the river,
Its pretty but you’ll pay,
’Cause the springtime brings the flood plain
Or your cutbank washes away.

Oh Ozilline, I feel for you.

I had to put the dog down,
Before I hit the road,
I watched that sweet old life
Become a bag of bones.

When your body’s broken
And your heart wants to give in,
And you hear that hoot owl callin’
Just like she was a friend.

Oh Ozilline, I feel for you.

My place is of the sun and[Bm7(4)] this place is o[Bm7(4)]f the dark
And I[C(9)], I do not fe[C(9)]el the romance, I do not catch the spark
My place is of the sun and[Bm7(4)] this place is o[Bm7(4)]f the dark
And I[C(9)], I do not fe[C(9)]el the romance, I do not catch the spark

[D/G] [D/F] [D/E] [D/G] [D/F] [D/E]

I don’t know when I noticed life was life at my expense
The words of my heart lined up like prisoners on a fence
My dreams came in like needy children tugging at my sleeve
I [G/B]said I have no w[G/B]ay of feeding you, so leave

[C(9)] But there was a t[C(9)]ime I asked my father for a dollar
And he gave it a t[D/C]en dollar [Bm7(4)]raise[Bm7(4)]
[C(9)] And when I ne[C(9)]eded my mother and I called her
She stayed with m[D/C]e for days

Now someone’s on the telephone, desperate in his pain
Someone’s on the [D/C]bathroom floor, doing her cocaine
[C(9)]Someone’s got his f[C(9)]inger on the button in some room
No one can conv[D/C]ince me we aren’t gl[]uttons for our doom
But I tr[E7/G]ied to [E7/G]make this place my place; I asked for providence to
[C(9)]smile upon m[C(9)]e with its sweet face; Yeah, but I’ll tell you:

My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark
And I, I do not feel the romance, I do not catch the spark
My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark
And I, I do not feel the romance, I do not catch the spark

Maybe there’s no haven in this world for tender age
My heart beat like the wings of wild birds in a cage
My greatest hope, my greatest cause to grieve
And my heart flew from its cage, and it bled upon my sleeve

The cries of passion were like wounds that needed healing
I couldn’t hear them for the thunder
I was half the naked distance between hell and heaven’s ceiling
And it almost pulled me under

Now someone’s on the telephone, desperate in his pain
Someone’s on the bathroom floor, doing her cocaine
Someone’s got his finger on the button in some room
No one can convince me we aren’t gluttons for our doom
But I tried to make this place my place; I asked for providence to
smile upon me with its sweet face; Yeah, but I’ll tell you:

My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark
And I, I do not feel the romance, I do not catch the spark
My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark
And I, I do not feel the romance, I do not catch the spark
My pl[C(9)]ace is of the[C(9)] sun and this place is of the dark
And I, I do not feel the romance; I will not be a pawn
For the prince of darkness any longer

[D/G] [D/F] [D/E] [D/G] [D/F] [D/E] [D/G] [D/F] [D/E]

Right and left it’s all the same conspiracy
Just cause you ask, doesn’t make a difference to me.

You could keep it all or give it away
but where did it come from in the first place?
[G-F#-Em]Robbing Peter to pay me and I’ll just be
giving it back to Peter to feel free

Now you have to fix everything thats broke
cause it’ll never leave you alone
[G-F#-Em]Reinvent the wheel be the butt of a joke,
take the long road to charity.

Right or left it’s all the same conspiracy
robbing Peter to pay Paul
or robbing Peter to pay me.

(same as other verses)
Yeah it’s too hard, oh well, jump in
forget about the sharks and swim
cause now you’re one, now you’re one.
Yeah it’s too hard, oh well, jump in
forget about the sharks and swim
cause now you’re one, now you’re one.

You can’t deny it any more
Ahhhh Ahhhh Where you come from
ahhh ahhh givin it bacK
Cant deny it any more
ahhh ahhh it’ll never leave you alone
ahhhh ahhhh Take the long road to Charity

Yeah, right or left it’s all the same conspiracy
Yeah, robbing Peter to pay Paul
Robbing Peter to pay me
robbing Peter to pay Paul
Robbing Peter to pay me

CANT DENY IT ANYMORE…..

[G-F#-Em]

st. tuning, no capo.

C D F Bb C G….(x1)

Dog at the window still
looks all day never gets her fill
Cause a glance means a chance
to break the birds out congregating

I have seen a look like that
you licked your chops from where you sat
Make your kill for a thrill
and you don’t mind waiting

Rise up your dead,
there’s life in the old girl yet
Rise up your dead

When it bums you out,
all the hunters sprung to pounce
And at best it’s a mess
like a nest infested

You remember there’s more than this
There always was and always is
Tend the artist in your charges,
you are full invested

chorus
And if you need to, read your mindless mag
Call me up for tickets, we’ll go see sugarland

And it gets better even when it’s been a drag
Just move to the music, move your body to the band and
Rise up!

solo part

chorus

You will need barre chords for this song,
they’re not terribly hard though.

See the chord charts below if you need
clarification on any of the chords.

INTRO RIFF-going up and down on a standard E chord

E|—0———–0—————–|
A|—–2—–2——-2————-|
D|——–2————————|
G|———————————|
B|———————————|
E|———————————|

I can go one day without calling
Two days without bawling
Three days without missing
But a lifetime of no kissing you
Is something that I just can’t do.
I wish I could be there, to share the moon

I got more back for the breaking
More callous for making
A lifetime for the aching
I got no need to run this battery down.
I’m just trying to get the stains out.

I wish I could be there, to share the moon

Hey la la
I’m gonna love to you til it hurts
I don’t mind if I do

Hey la la
I’m gonna love you til it works
I’ve got no mind to lose

Ooooooooooo oooh ooh

There’s one trash heap burning
Fireflies are returning
Nightfall is softly chirping
One trailer light is staying on til dawn
I wonder who it’s waiting on.

Hey la la
I’m gonna love to you til it hurts
I don’t mind if I do

Hey la la
I’m gonna love you til it works
I’ve got no mind to lose

E (until end)
Ooooooooooo oooh ooh
Enjoy playing this great song!!