Tom: D
Bonnie Prince Billy – I gave you
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Capo 3
Tuning: dropped d = DADGBE
(all chords can be played with normal tuning except Em/D)
[Chords]
(normal tuning in brackets)
A7sus2 X02000 C X32010 Em7/D X50000
Asus2 X02200 D 000232 (X00232) Em9 X22002
Bm X24432 Em 222000 (022000) G 5X000X (3X000X)
Bm7 X24232 Em/D 022000 (X22000) G/A 4X000X (2X000X)
[Verse 1]
Asus2 Asus2 Em7/D A7sus2
I gave you a child and you didn't want it
D D Em Em
That's the most that I have to give
Asus2 Asus2 Em7/D A7sus2
I gave you a house and you didn't haunt it
D D Em Em
Now where am I supposed to live ?
[Verse 2]
G D Bm7 Em
I gave you a tree and you did not embrace it
G D Bm C
I gave you a nightmare and you didn't chase it
D G G/A Em Em/D C
I'd give you a dream and you'd only wake from it
D D Em Em
Now I'll never go to sleep again
[Verse 3]
D G G/A Em Em/D C
I'd give you a treasure and you'd only take from it
D D Em Em
Look at the hole where jewelry had been
Asus2 Asus2 Em7/D A7sus2
Baby, oh baby, why must you escape from it –
D D Em Em
This love that we once called our friend ?
[Instrumental]
C C C Em Em9 Em
[Verse 4]
G D Bm7 Em
I gave you my body and you ate a plenty
G D Bm C
I gave you ten lives and you wasted twenty
D G G/A Em Em/D C
Now I'm standing empty, helpless and bare
D D Em Em
Without a morsel left of me to give
[Outro]
Asus2 Asus2 Em7/D A7sus2
And you, you have vanished into the air
D D Em Em
The air in which I must live
