{"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":1765827,"song":"Estelle","artist":"Dan Bern","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11384285-estelle-chords-by-dan-bern/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1765827?type=chord","rating":4.8871,"votes":4,"content":"The lyrics just kinda flow, nearly conversationally. You'll have to listen to the recording a few times,\r\nto get a good feel for how they go.\r\n\r\nLyrics from The Dan Bern Lyrics Archive\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nI was painting a still life this morning[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOf a throat lozenge sitting on a copy[/tab]\r\nOf Tropic of Cancer\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe only thing weird about it[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIs that a year ago, [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI never thought I'd paint anything again[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI decided I wasn't ever gonna paint again[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIt didn't bother me too much[/tab]\r\nWarhol's dead, \r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nDavid Hockney's still alive[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI don't need to paint[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI painted over ten thousand paintings[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSad ones, funny ones, dark ones, and light ones[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI've done haystacks[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd rich old ladies by their pools [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWearing nothing but a scarf[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI've painted everything there was to paint[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nNow it was time to sit back[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nGive interviews, get on the internet[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHang out at club med[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTake stock of what I've done[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou know, the best friend I ever had was a dog[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIt sounds like a cliche unless it's happened to you[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSome days that dog was the only reason I even got out of bed[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat dog went everywhere with me[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd then I heard the crack addicts[/tab]\r\nWere stealin' dogs and selling them for animal research\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt sounded like an urban myth to me[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nLike the mouse in the Coke bottle[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut I started leavin' her at home after that[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou know, Paula was my wife for a while[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nShe ran off to Paris with the great grandson of Van Gogh[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA cartoonist who did fashion graphics for Le Monde[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhen Paula left she took my dog[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI never saw her again[/tab]\r\nExcept in the court during the custody battle\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nShe won and got to keep the dog[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I didn't speak to anyone for months[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou know sometimes it feels[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nLike there's so much that you need[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]             [ch]Bm[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSometimes the world is upside down[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nSometimes it feels [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nLike the only thing you need[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIs holdin' someone's hand as you walk through town[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nI started hanging around with Dino[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHe used to run a poker game back east[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNow he sells cappuccino to his old pals[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTommy Chicago and Jimmy the Wig and Ugly Rose[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou know the best person I ever knew[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWas a Mormon woman named Estelle[/tab]\r\nShe still calls me drunk every few months\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd asks me stuff I don't want to talk about[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou can't talk to her very long unless you're drunk yourself[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThen we go all night[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nShe says, \"Why baby, why baby, why baby, why[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHave you turned your back on love?[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYou had so many chances[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhy have you let 'em all go by?\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell, one morning I was sitting in front of Dino's place[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nwith Jake the Shears, a guy from Philly[/tab]\r\nWho gives free mohawks\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nThere were a couple of young painters[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI was hopin' to come by[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo I could give 'em some advice[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYeah, I was sittin' there updating my list of enemies[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhen this girl walks in [/tab]\r\nAnd the universe kind of stops\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTurned out she drank the same tea as me[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt don't take more than that to start a conversation sometimes[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nShe believed collage was the greatest of all the arts[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd was busy pasting pictures of horses[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNext to ads for laundry soap[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNext to Mohammed Ali[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nShe had a turquoise in her ear[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd said Rachmaninoff was always in her head[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nLater that day I was trying to describe her to Jimmy the Wig[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI couldn't find any words[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I realized I'd started to sketch her chin[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSomehow it didn't look right[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI scratched it out and tried it again[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI filled an entire pad[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI threw it away, I never even came close[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor six days I sat at Dino's place[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe rain wouldn't quit and no one came in[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFinally on the seventh day it cleared[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd in she walked[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI asked her to sit with me [/tab]\r\nAnd I bought her a cup of tea\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd I asked her to model for me sometime[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                    \r\nThat afternoon I was at a canvas[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nShe was wearing a yellow dress[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI swore if she let me, I'd get it right[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI've painted over ten thousand paintings[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSad ones, funny ones, dark ones, and light ones[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut sitting there, it was like I couldn't even[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWrite my own name[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI apologized and said, \"It's been a few months[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIf you have patience, I'll get the hang of it again\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn the next few weeks, I painted her hundreds of times[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIf I get the nose right, the chin's too long[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIf I get 'em both right, the face is too thin[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch] \r\nBut I keep after it and one day[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI get it all right[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[harmonica solo]\r\n[ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI painted a still life this morning[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOf a throat lozenge [/tab]\r\nsitting on a copy of Tropic of Cancer\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe only thing that's funny[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIs I never thought[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI'd paint anything again[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI think I might go visit Estelle[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThose Utah mountains are good for the soul[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI'll bring my brushes [/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd some Jack Daniels[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd we can make up for lost time[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nShe said, \"Why baby, why baby, why baby why?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHave you turned your back on love[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYou had so many chances[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhy do you let 'em all go by?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhy baby, why baby, why baby why?[/tab]\r\nHave you turned your back on love\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYou had so many chances[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhy do you let 'em all go by?\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nSometimes it seems like there's so much that you need[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]             [ch]Bm[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSometimes the world is upside down[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nSometimes it seems like the only thing you need[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]Bm[/ch]                       [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIs holdin' someone's hand as you walk through town[/tab]","plain_text":"The lyrics just kinda flow, nearly conversationally. You'll have to listen to the recording a few times,\nto get a good feel for how they go.\n\nLyrics from The Dan Bern Lyrics Archive\n\n\n\n\n\nOf Tropic of Cancer\n\n\n\n\n\nWarhol's dead, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWere stealin' dogs and selling them for animal research\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExcept in the court during the custody battle\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShe still calls me drunk every few months\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWho gives free mohawks\n\n\n\n\n\nAnd the universe kind of stops\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnd I bought her a cup of tea\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[harmonica solo]\nG Am C D G\nG Am C D G\n\n\n\nsitting on a copy of Tropic of Cancer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHave you turned your back on love","chords":["G","Am","C","D","A","Bm"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"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]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}