This is from the Indigo Girls 1200 Curfews music book.
All chords are the way that Emily and Amy do it.
This is a good song to play solo because the two guitar parts are identical.
Don??t worry, it??s a LOT easier than it looks.
See end for fingerings...
Capo 2
Standard Tuning EADGBE
Intro/Rhy. Fig. 1:
((A7sus4)
E--------3---3---3---3---------3---3---3---3---------------
B--------3---3---3---3---------3---3---3---3---------------
G--------0---0---0---0---------0---0---0---0---------------
D--------0---0---0---0------2--2---2---2---2---------------
A-----2---------------------0------------------------------
E-----3----------------------------------------------------
End Rhy. Fig. 1
(((((D)s2)
E--------3---3---3---3------3--------2------0------2-------
B--------3---3---3---3------3--------3------3------3-------
G--------0---0---0---0------2--------2------2------2-------
D-----2--2---2---2---2------0--------0------0------0-------
A-----3----------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------
Verse with Rhy. Fig. 1 (above):
GA7sus4CaddDsus2
I??m tryin to tell you something about my life
DGA7sus4CaDsus2
Maybe give me insight between black and white
DD11C
And the best thing you??ve ever done for me
D11C
Is to help me take my life less seriously
(------------------Rhy. Fig. 1----------------)
GDsus24
Cause its only life after all
Verse with Rhy. Fig. 1:
GA7sus4Cadd9Dsus2
Well darkness has a hunger that??s insatiable
DGA7sus4CadDsus4
And lightness has a call that??s hard to hear
Dsus2DD11C
And I??ll wrap my fear around me like a blanket
D11C
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it
GG
And I??m crawling on your shore
Chorus:
DCadd9G
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
DCadd9G
I looked to the children and I drank from the fountains
D11C
There??s more than one answer to these questions
GG
Pointing me in a crooked line
D11 C N.C.
The less I seek my source for some definitive
(--------------Rhy Fig. 1----------
GACadd9
The closer I am to fine------
----------------)(----------------Rhy Fig. 1------------------)
DDDDGACDDDDus2
The Closer I am to fine------ yeah
Verse with Rhy. Fig 1:
GA7sus4Cadd9Dsus2
I went to see the doctor of philosophy
GA7sus4Cadd9DsusDsus2
With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
DD11C
And he never did marry or see a b-grade movie
D11C
But he graded my performance and he said he could see through me
GDCadd9
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind
DG
I got my paper and I was free
(Chorus)
Verse with Rhy. Fig 1:
GA7sus4CDsus2
So I stopped by the bar at three a.m.
DGA7sus4Cadd9DsusDsus2
To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend
DD11C
And I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
D11C
I was twice as cloudy as I??d been the night before
GG
When I went in seeking clarity
Outro/Chorus:
(chorus)
DCadd9G
Here we go to the doctor we go to the mountains
DCadd9G
We look to the children and we drink from the fountains
DCadd9
Here we go to the bible we go through the workout
D G N.C. G
We read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout
D11C
There??s more than one answer to these questions
GG
Pointing me in a crooked line
D11 C N.C
The less I seek my source for some definitive
(---------------Rhy Fig 1--
GCadd94
The closer I am to fine
--------------)(-------------Rhy Fig 1--
DDDDGACadd9
Clos--er I am to fine---------
--------------)(-------------Rhy Fig 1--------------------)
Dsus4 D Dsus2 D G A7sus4 Cadd9 Dsus4 D Dsus2 D G-------
Clos--er I am to fine---------
D11=x54030 (this sounds kind of weird, I use xx0010-sounds much better)
C=x32010
G=320003
D=xx0232
Cadd9=x23033 (or x23003)
Dsus4=xx0233
Dsus2=xx0230
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