Least Complicated

LEAST COMPLICATED (Emily Saliers)
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[Emily plays this in A with no capo;
 Amy plays it in G with a capo on
 the second fret.  Note that I wrote
 down Amy's chords, even though in
 the intro, and in parts of the 
first verse and last verse, Amy 
doesn't
 even play (that's why those chords 
are in parentheses).  So, if you 
want
 to play Emily's chords, transpose 
everything up a whole step.  Emily's
 picking pattern for the intro and 
first and last verse is at the end.]

[Each chord is half a measure.  I 
think Amy plays C/G as 3x2013.]

[You can play the melody in the 
mandolin parts by playing G7 
(320001)
 instead of G; use your index finger
 and pinky to find the melody.]

(G)  (C/G)  (G)  (G)     (G)  
[intro]
(C/G)  (G)  (G)


         (G)        (C/G)     (G) 
I sit two stories above the street
 (G)

          (G)               
It's awful quiet here since love 
(C/G)       (G)  (G)
fell asleep
                    Am           G/B
There's life down below me though
C                  D             
  The kids are walking home from 
   G   C/G  G  G
school

         G        C/G          G   G
So long ago when we were taught
             G            C/G  
That for whatever kind of puzzle 
             G   G
you've got
                          Am       
You just stick the right formula in
 G/B

    C           D     G   C/G  G  G
A solution for every fool

                D          D      
I remember the time when I came so
   C       C
 close to you
        G             G     
Sent me skipping my class and 
   Am7            Am7
running from school
      C                C           D
 [tacet]
And I bought you that ring cause I 
never was cool
                G             D   
What makes me think I could start 
         C
clean slated
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    C            D [tacet]          
       G   C/G  G  G    G  C/G  G  G
The hardest to learn was the least 
complicated  [mandolin]

          G             C/G       
Oh I just sit up in the house and 
   G   G
resist
           G            C/G    
And not be seen until I cease to 
    G   G
exist
                          Am7     
A kind of conscientious objection
G/B

C           D           G  C/G  G  G
  A kind of dodging the draft

            G                C/G  
The boy and girl are holding hands
           G   G
 on the street
                  G         C/G   
And I don't want to but I think 
        G   G
you just wait
                    Am7       G/B
It's more than just eye-to-eye
            C             D        
Learn the things I could never 
G  Gsus4  G  G
apply

                    D(sus4?)   
D(sus4?)  C(9)    C(9)
And I remember the time when I came 
so close with you
      G           G               
I let everything go it seemed the 
Am7        Am7
only truth
      C                C            
      D [tacet]
And I bought you that ring; it 
seemed the thing to do
                G             D   
What makes me think I could start 
        C
clean slated
    C            D [tacet]          
       G    G
The hardest to learn was the least 
complicated
                   G             D
So what makes me think I could 
           C
start clean slated
    C            D            D  
The hardest to learn was the 
          G    G
least complicated

     Am7           Am7         
Ohhhhh, I'm just a mirror of a 
Em7         Em7
mirror of myself
C           D            G   G
  All the things that I do
        Em           Em           
And the next time I fall, I'm 
  Bm         Bm
gonna have to recall
         C          C/B  Am7   C/G  
 D   (D)-(Dsus4) (D) [tacet]
It isn't love, it's only something  
 new

         (G)        (C/G)     (G) 
I sit two stories above the street
 (G)

          (G)               
It's awful quiet here since love 
(C/G)       (G)  (G)
fell asleep
                    Am7          G/B
There's life down below me though
C                 D              
  The kids are walking home from 
   G   C/G   G   G
school

                    D          D  
And I remember the time when I 
       C(9)      C(9)
came so close with you
        G             G     
Sent me skipping my class and 
   Am7            Am7
running from school
      C                C           D
 [tacet]
And I bought you that ring cause I 
never was cool
                G             D   
What makes me think I could start 
         C
clean slated
    C            D             D 
The hardest to learn was the 
          G    G
least complicated
                   G             D
So what makes me think I could 
           C
start clean slated
    C            D [tacet]          
      G    C/G   G   G
The hardest to learn was the least 
complicated  [mandolin]
              G   C/G  G  G
Least complicated
              G [tacet; single 
notes: F-F-F-E-D, D-E-F-F-F-E-D-C-D 
etc.]
Least complicated       (Na naa, na 
na na na naaaa...)




EE LY'S PICKING PATTERN:

  A                Asus4          
E|----------------|------0--------
B|--------2-------| 2=3-------3---
G|--------------2-|---------------
D|----2-------2---|----2-------2--
    A       Asus9    A     
E|-|----------------|---------------
B|--|----------0-----|0=2---0-------
G|-|------2-------2-|----------2----
D|-|----2-------2---|----2-------2--
  Asus9
E|-|  
B|0-| 
G|-|  
D|-|  


A 0-------0-------|0-------0------
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