Michael Maher An attempt at documenting the chords from the rendition by Stocky76 http://youtube.com/watch?v=L7yMMi--3aw Capo on 3rd Fret Intro DGDGmaj7 D G A7 D Oh, where is your inflammatory writ D G A7 D Your text that would incite a light, "Be lit" D Our music deserving devotion unswerving Cry "Do I deserve her?" with unflagging fervor G D7 Well, no you do not, if you cannot get over it ( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/j/joanna_newsom/inflammatory_writ_crd.html ) Gmaj7 Bm But what's it mean when suddenly we're spent, tell me true Gmaj7 Bm Ambition came and reared its head, and went far from you Gmaj7 Even mollusks have weddings, though solemn and leaden Bm But you dirge for the dead, take no jam on your bread D G D7 Just a supper of salt and a waltz through your empty bed F A7 And all at once it came to me Dm F And I wrote and hunched 'till four-thirty Cm Gm But that vestal light A7 D It burns out with the night G7 Dm In spite of all the time that we spent on it F One bedraggled ghost of a sonnet G D While outside, the wild boars root Bm A7 Without bending a bough underfoot C Oh it breaks my heart G I don't know how they do it So don't ask me And as for my inflammatory writ Well, I wrote it an I was not inflamed one bit Advice from the master derailed that disaster He said "Hand that pen over to me, poetaster!" While across the great plains, keening lovely and awful Ululate the last Great American Novels An unlawful lot, left to stutter and freeze, floodlit D C G D7 But at least they didn't run, to their undying credit