Tom: Em
Em7 G6 A7sus4 Cadd9 Dsus2 Dsus2/F#
E|---0---0-----0------0------0--------0-----|
B|---3---3-----3------3------3--------3-----|
G|---0---0-----0------0------2--------2-----|
D|---0---0-----2------2------0--------0-----|
A|---2---2-----0------3------x--------x-----|
E|---0---3-----x------x------x--------2-----|
(Please don't tell my college music professors if I got any of those chord name wrong.)
It sounds like he is doing some hammer-ons with the A string on the Em7 and the
low E string on the G6. Listen to the record for the timing. Let me know if I got anything wrong.
[Intro]
Em7 G6 A7sus4 x4
[Verse 1]
Em7 G6 A7sus4
She said Andy you're better than your past,
Em7 G6 A7sus4
winked at me and drained her glass,
Em7 G6 A7sus4 Em7 G6 A7sus4
cross-legged on the barstool, like nobody sits anymore.
Em7 G6 A7sus4
She said Andy you're taking me home,
Em7 G6 A7sus4
but I knew she planned to sleep alone.
Em7 G6 A7sus4 Em7 G6 A7sus4
I'd carry her to bed and sweep up the hair from the floor
[Chorus]
Cadd9 Dsus2
If I had fucked her before she got sick
G6 Dsus2/F# Em7
I'd never hear the end of it
Cadd9 Dsus2 Em7
she don't have the spirit for that now
Cadd9 Dsus2
We drink these drinks and laugh out loud,
G6 Dsus2/F# Em7
bitch about the weekend crowd,
Cadd9 Dsus2 Em7 G6 A7sus4
and try to ignore the elephant somehow
Em7 G6 A7sus4
somehow
Em7 G6 A7sus4 x2
[Verse]
Em7 G6 A7sus4
She said Andy you crack me up,
Em7 G6 A7sus4
Seagram's in a coffee cup,
Em7 G6 A7sus4 Em7 G6 A7sus4
sharecropper eyes and her hair almost all gone.
Em7 G6 A7sus4
When she was drunk she made cancer jokes,
Em7 G6 A7sus4
she made up her own doctor's notes,
Em7 G6 A7sus4 Em7 G6 A7sus4
surrounded by her family, I saw that she was dying alone.
[Chorus]
Cadd9 Dsus2
I'd sing her classic country songs
G6 Dsus2/F# Em7
and she'd get high and sing along.
Cadd9 Dsus2 Em7
She don't have much voice to sing with now
Cadd9 Dsus2
We'd burn these joints in effigy,
G6 Dsus2/F# Em7
cry about what we used to be,
Cadd9 Dsus2 Em7 G6 A7sus4
and try to ignore the elephant somehow.
Em7 G6 A7sus4
Somehow
[Chorus]
Cadd9 Dsus2
I buried her a thousand times,
G6 Dsus2/F# Em7
given up my place in line,
Cadd9 Dsus2 Em7
but I don't give a damn about that now
Cadd9 Dsus2
There's one thing that's real clear to me,
G6 Dsus2/F# Em7
no one dies with dignity.
Cadd9 Dsus2 Em7 G6 A7sus4
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow.
Cadd9 Dsus2 Em7 G6 A7sus4
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow.
Cadd9 Dsus2 Em7 G6 A7sus4
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow.
Somehow.
Em7 G6 A7sus4
Somehow.
