{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1755537,"song":"Emily","artist":"Joanna Newsom","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11379880-emily-chords-by-joanna-newsom/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1755537?type=chord","rating":4.75601,"votes":92,"content":"Standard tuning, capo on 3. This will make things a little easier for you.\r\nIf you're new to guitar, sorry, you're still gonna have to use bar chords (but shout out to you\r\nfor trying to take on a 12 minute song).\r\n\r\nChords used (relative to capo)\r\n[ch]C[/ch]      x32010\r\n[ch]Em[/ch]     022000\r\n[ch]D[/ch]      xx0232\r\n[ch]Am[/ch]     x02210\r\n[ch]F[/ch]      133211\r\n[ch]A[/ch]      x02220\r\n[ch]E[/ch]      022100\r\n[ch]F#m[/ch]    244222\r\n[ch]Amaj7[/ch]  x02120\r\n[ch]Bm[/ch]     224432\r\n[ch]C#m[/ch]    446654\r\n[ch]F#[/ch]     244322\r\n[ch]G#m[/ch]    466444\r\n[ch]B[/ch]      224442\r\n\r\nQuite a few! but less bar chords than you'd have to use in another tab, so it should be\r\na little nicer to your hands.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe meadowlark and the chim-choo-ree and the sparrow[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSet to the sky in a flying spree, for the sport of the Pharaoh[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]Em[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nLittle while later the Pharisees dragged a comb through the meadow[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]Em[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nDo you remember what they called up to you and me, in our window?[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThere is a rusty light on the pines tonight, sun pouring wine, lord, or marrow[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]Em[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nInto the bones of the birches and the spires of the churches juttin' out from the shadow[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]Em[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand the yoke and the axe, and the old smokestacks, and the bale and the barrow[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]Em[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand everything sloped like it was dragged from the rope in the mouth of the south below[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]E[/ch]          [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nWe've seen those mountains kneeling, felten and grey[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nWe thought our very hearts would up and melt away[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]Amaj7[/ch]        [ch]E[/ch]          [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nFrom the snow in the nighttime, just going, and going[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]Amaj7[/ch]          [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nand the stirrin' of windchimes, in the mornin', in the mornin'[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]       [ch]Bm[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHelps me find my way back in[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]Bm[/ch]     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nFrom the place where I have been[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C#m[/ch]                         [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nand Emily, I saw you last night by the river![/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C#m[/ch]                                                [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nI dreamed you were skippin' little stones across the surface of the water![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G#m[/ch]             [ch]B[/ch]                     [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nFrowning at the angle where they were lost and slipped under forever[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G#m[/ch]             [ch]B[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nIn a mud-cloud, mica-spangled, like the sky'd been breathing on a mirror[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C#m[/ch]                          [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nAnyhow -- I sat by your side, by the water[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C#m[/ch]                                              [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nYou taught me the names of the stars overhead that I wrote down in my ledger[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G#m[/ch]               [ch]B[/ch]                        [ch]A[/ch]                  [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nThough all I knew of the rote universe were those Pleiades loosed in December[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G#m[/ch]              [ch]B[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nI promised you I'd set them to verse so I'd always remember[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C#m[/ch]                                          [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nThat the meteorite is a source of the light, and the meteor's just what we see[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G#m[/ch]            [ch]B[/ch]                          [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nand the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C#m[/ch]                                            [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nand the meteorite's just what causes the light and the meteor's how it's perceived[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G#m[/ch]                [ch]B[/ch]                              [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nand the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet and offering to thee[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Tiny Interlude] (still relative to capo)\r\n\r\n[tab]e|---------0------------------------------|\r\nB|------------4s2~------------------------|\r\nG|----------------------------------------|\r\nD|--4h5h6---------------------------------|\r\nA|----------------------------------------|\r\nE|----------------------------------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab][ch]Amaj7[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYou came and lay a cold compress upon the mess I'm in[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThrew the windows wide and cried, \"Amen! Amen! Amen!\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe whole world stopped to hear you hollerin'[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThen you looked down and saw now what was happenin'[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]             [ch]Em[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe lines are fadin' in my kingdom[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThough I have never known a way to border 'em in[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSo the muddy mouths of baboons and sows and the grouse and the horse and the hen[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nGrope at the gate of the looming lake that was once a tidy pen[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand the mail is late and the great estates are not lit from within[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe talk in town's becomin' downright sickenin'![/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]E[/ch]                   [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nIn due time we will see the far buttes lit by a flare[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]           [ch]E[/ch]                 [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nI've seen your bravery and I will follow you there[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]Amaj7[/ch]     [ch]E[/ch]             [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nand row through the nighttime, so healthy, gone healthy all of a sudden[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]Amaj7[/ch]        [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nIn search of a midwife who can help me, who can help me[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]      [ch]E[/ch]       [ch]Bm[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHelp me find my way back in[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]       [ch]Bm[/ch]         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nand there are worries where I've been[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C#m[/ch]                                   [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nand say, say, say, in the lee of the bay, don't be bothered![/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C#m[/ch]                                        [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nLeave your troubles here where the tugboats shear the water from the water[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G#m[/ch]                 [ch]B[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]                        [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nFlanked by furrows, curling back like a match held up to the newspaper[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C#m[/ch]                             [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nEmily, they'll follow your lead by the letter![/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C#m[/ch]                                     [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nand I make this claim, and I'm not ashamed to say I knew you better![/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G#m[/ch]                  [ch]B[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nFor what they've seen is just a beam of your sun that banishes winter[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C#m[/ch]                                  [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nLet us go! Though we know it's a hopeless endeavor,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C#m[/ch]                                            [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nThe ties that bind; they are barbed and spined and hold us close forever![/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G#m[/ch]                         [ch]B[/ch]                       [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nThough there is nothing would help me come to grips with a sky that is gaping and yawning[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G#m[/ch]                    [ch]B[/ch]                      [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nThere is a song I woke with on my lips as you sailed your great ship towards the morning[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 7]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nCome on home, the poppies are all grown knee-deep by now[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBlossoms all have fallen, and the pollen ruins the plow[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Em[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nPeonies nod in the breeze, and while they wetly bow[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWith hydrocephalitic listlessness, ants mop up their brows[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand everything with wings is restless, aimless, drunk and dour[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nButterflies and birds collide at hot, ungodly hours[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand my clay-coloured motherlessness rangily reclines[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nCome on home, now! All my bones are dolorous with vines![/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 8]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nPa pointed out to me, for the hundredth time tonight[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]                [ch]E[/ch]                  [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nThe way the Ladle leads to a dirt-red bullet of light[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nSquint skyward and listen, loving him, we move within his borders[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]         [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nJust asterisms in the stars set order[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nWe could stand for a century, staring with our heads cocked[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]     [ch]E[/ch]    [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nIn the broad daylight at this thing -- Joy! Landlocked![/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]           [ch]E[/ch]                   [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nIn bodies that don't keep, dumbstruck with the sweetness of being![/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]        [ch]E[/ch]          [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\n'til we don't be told, take this, and eat this![/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTold: The meteorite is a source of the light, and the meteor's just what we see![/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee![/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]Em[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand the meteorite's just what causes the light and the meteor's how it's perceived![/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nand the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet and offering to thee![/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n([ch]C[/ch])   [ch]Em[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]Em[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]    x5","plain_text":"Standard tuning, capo on 3. This will make things a little easier for you.\nIf you're new to guitar, sorry, you're still gonna have to use bar chords (but shout out to you\nfor trying to take on a 12 minute song).\n\nChords used (relative to capo)\nC      x32010\nEm     022000\nD      xx0232\nAm     x02210\nF      133211\nA      x02220\nE      022100\nF#m    244222\nAmaj7  x02120\nBm     224432\nC#m    446654\nF#     244322\nG#m    466444\nB      224442\n\nQuite a few! but less bar chords than you'd have to use in another tab, so it should be\na little nicer to your hands.\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Tiny Interlude] (still relative to capo)\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 6]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 7]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 8]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\n(C)   Em    D    Am\n C    Em    D    Am    x5","chords":["C","Em","D","Am","F","A","E","F#m","Amaj7","Bm","C#m","F#","G#m","B","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"Amaj7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,1,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,1,2,0]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]}}}