Emily

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                             EE LY - Joanna Newsom

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Tabbed by: Ian C.

Tuning: Standard


Cm7             Gm              
The meadowlark and the 
F               Cm
chim-choo-ree and the sparrow
Set to the sky in a flying spree, 
for the sport over the pharaoh
Little while later the Pharisees 
dragged comb through the meadow
Do you remember what they called up 
to you and me, in our window?

Cm7             Gm              
there is a rusty light on the 
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pines tonight sun pouring wine, 
lord, or marrow
down into the bones of the birches 
and the spires of the churches 
jutting out from the shadows
the oak, and the axe, and the old 
smokestacks and the bale and the 
barrow
and everything sloped like it was 
dragged from a rope in the mouth of 
the south below

G#              C               
we've seen those mountains 
G               Am
kneeling, felten and grey
we thought our very hearts would up 
and melt away
C               Cmaj7           
from that snow in the nighttime 
G               Am
just going and going
and the stirring of wind chimes in 
the morning in the morning
Dm      G       Dm      G
helps me find my way back in
from the place where I have been

F       Em      G
(instrumental segway)

Em                      A
and, Emily - I saw you last night by
 the river
I dreamed you were skipping little 
stones across the surface of the 
water
Bm                      D        
frowning at the angle where they 
               C            
were lost, and slipped under 
           Em
forever,
in a mud-cloud, mica-spangled, like 
the sky'd been breathing on a mirror

Em                      A
anyhow - I sat by your side, by the 
water
you taught me the names of the stars
 overhead that I wrote down in my 
ledger
Bm                      D  
though all I knew of the rote 
                     C             
universe were those pleiades loosed
          Em
 in december
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I promised you I‘d set them to verse
 so I'd always remember

Em                      A
that the meteorite is a source of 
the light and the meteor's just what
 we see
Bm                      D        
and the meteoroid is a stone 
               C              
that's devoid of the fire that 
         Em
propelled it to thee
Em                      A
and the meteorite's just what causes
 the light and the meteor's how it's
 perceived
Bm                      D        

               C                   

    Em

and the meteoroid's a bone thrown 
from the void that lies quiet in 
offering to thee

Cm7             Gm              
  you came and lay a cold 
F               Cm
compress upon the mess I'm in
threw the window wide and cried; 
Amen! Amen! Amen!
the whole world - stopped - to hear 
you hollering
you looked down and saw now what was
 happening

Cm7             Gm              
the lines are fadin' in my 
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kingdom
though I have never known the way to
 border them in
so the muddy mouths of baboons and 
sows and the grouse and the horse 
and the hen
grope at the gate of the looming 
lake that was once a tidy pen
and the mail is late and the great 
estates are not lit from within
the talk in town's becoming 
downright sickening

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in due time we will see the far 
G               Am
butte lit by a flare
I've seen your bravery, and I will 
follow you there
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and row through the nighttime 
G               Am
gone healthy gone healthy all of a 
sudden in
search of the midwife who could help
 me who could help me
Dm      G       Dm      G
help me find my way back in
there are worries where I've been

F       Em      G
(instrumental segway)

Em                      A
say, say, say in the lee of the bay;
 don't be bothered
leave your troubles here where the 
tugboats shear the water from the 
water
Bm                      D        
flanked by furrows, curling back,
               C                   
 like a match held up to a 
    Em
newspaper

Em                      A
Emily, they'll follow your lead by 
the letter
and I make this claim, and I'm not 
ashamed to say I know you better
Bm                      D        
what they've seen is just a beam 
               C                   
of your sun that banishes winter
    Em


Em                      A
let us go! though we know it's a 
hopeless endeavor
the ties that bind, they are barbed 
and spined and hold us close forever
Bm                      D        
though there is nothing would 
               C                
help me come to grips with a sky 
       Em
that is gaping and yawning
there is a song I woke with on my 
lips as you sailed your great ship 
towards the morning

Cm7             Gm              
come on home, the poppies are 
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all grown knee-deep by now
blossoms all have fallen, and the 
pollen ruins the plow
peonies nod in the breeze and while 
they wetly bow, with
hydrocephalitic listlessness ants 
mop up their brow

Cm7             Gm        
and everything with wings is 
      F               Cm
restless, aimless, drunk and dour
the butterflies and birds collide at
 hot, ungodly hours
and my clay-colored motherlessness 
rangily reclines
- come on home, now! all my bones 
are dolorous with vines

G#              C          
Pa pointed out to me, for the 
     G               Am
hundredth time tonight
the way the ladle leads to a 
dirt-red bullet of light
C               Cmaj7           
squint skyward and listen - 
G               Am
loving him, we move within
his borders: just asterisms in the 
stars' set order
we could stand for a century, 
starin', with our heads cocked
in the broad daylight at this thing.
 Joy, landlocked
in bodies that don't keep, 
dumbstruck with the sweetness of be-
ing till we don't be told; take this
 and eat this

Cm7             Gm              
told; the meteorite is the 
F               Cm
source of the light and the meteor's
 just what we see
and the meteoroid is a stone that's 
devoid of the fire that propelled it
 to thee
and the meteorite's just what causes
 the light and the meteor's how it's
 perceived
and the meteoroid's a bone thrown 
from the void that lies quiet in 
offering to thee