{"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":1842202,"song":"Oh Comely","artist":"Neutral Milk Hotel","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1842202-oh-comely-chords-by-neutral-milk-hotel/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1842202?type=chord","rating":4.94418,"votes":62,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\n(Strum the lower strings first, and then incorporate the higher strings[/tab]\r\nto get the same sound as Mangum does)\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1] \r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOh comely, I will be with you[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nwhen you lose your breath[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nChasing the only meaningful[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nmemory you thought you had left[/tab]\r\n                             \r\nWith some pretty, bright\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nand bubbly terrible scene[/tab]\r\n\r\nThat was doing her thing\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\non your chest[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut oh comely[/tab]\r\n                                    \r\nIt isn't as pretty as\r\n[tab]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nyou'd like to guess[/tab]\r\n\r\nIn your memory, you're drunk on your awe to me\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                                  [ch]E[/ch]  \r\nIt doesn't mean anything at allllllllllll (He transitions the long \"all\" into the Ooohh comely next verse)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOh comely, all of your friends[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nare all letting you blow,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBristling and ugly, bursting with[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nfruits falling out from the holes[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOf some pretty, bright, and bubbly friend[/tab]\r\n\r\nYou could need to say\r\n[tab]                           [ch]E[/ch]\r\ncomforting things in your ear[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut oh comely, there isn't such one[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nfriend that you could find here[/tab]\r\n\r\nStanding next to me, he's only my enemy\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI'll crush him with everything I own[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nSay what you want to say[/tab]\r\n\r\nHang for your hollow ways\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nMoving your mouth to pull out[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]E[/ch]     \r\nAll your miracles aimed[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nfor meeeeeeeeeee[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n[ch]E[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYour father made fetuses with flesh licking ladies[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhile you and your mother were asleep in the trailer park[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nThunderous sparks from the dark of the stadiums[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe music and medicine you needed for comforting[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSo make all your fat fleshy fingers to moving[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd pluck all your silly strings, bend all your notes for me[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nSoft silly music is meaningful magical[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe movements were beautiful, all in your ovaries[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nAll of them milking with green fleshy flowers[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhile powerful pistons were sugary sweet machines[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nSmelling of semen all under the garden[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWas all you were needing when you still believed in me[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nSay what your want to say[/tab]\r\n\r\nHang for your hollow ways\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nMoving your mouth to pull out[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]E[/ch]     \r\nAll your miracles aimed[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nfor meeeeeeeeeee[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Interlude 2]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\n  Da da da, da da da, da[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]E[/ch]\r\n  Da da da, da da da, da[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\n  Da da da, da da da, daaaaaa[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nI know they buried her body with others[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHer sister and mother and five-hundred families[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd will she remember me fifty years later?[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI wished I could save her in some sort of time machine[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nKnow all your enemies[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWe know who our enemies are[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nKnow all your enemies[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWe know who our enemies are[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\n   Da da da da dadada[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nda da da da daaahhaaa[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAh da da da daa dadada[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAhh da da da da daaahhaaa[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nDa da da da daaa dadada[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nDeeee de de de de de deeeeeee[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nGoldaline, my dear[/tab]\r\nWe will fold and freeze together\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nFar away from here[/tab]\r\n\r\nThere is sun and spring and green forever\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut now we move to feel for ourselves[/tab]\r\n\r\ninside some stranger's stomach\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nPlace your body here[/tab]\r\n\r\nLet your skin begin\r\n[tab]                     [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nto blend itself with miiiiiiiiine[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]   \r\nDe deee dede de de dadada[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAh dadada da da daaaaa[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nDa da da daa da dadada[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]            \r\nAh dada da daaa daaaa daaaaa[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAhh daaaaaa daaaaaaa daaaaaaa ohhhhhh [/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\n\nto get the same sound as Mangum does)\n\n\n[Verse 1] \n\n\n\n\n                             \nWith some pretty, bright\n\n\nThat was doing her thing\n\n\n                                    \nIt isn't as pretty as\n\n\nIn your memory, you're drunk on your awe to me\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou could need to say\n\n\n\n\nStanding next to me, he's only my enemy\n\n\n\nHang for your hollow ways\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\nE\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHang for your hollow ways\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Bridge]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\n\nWe will fold and freeze together\n\n\nThere is sun and spring and green forever\n\n\ninside some stranger's stomach\n\n\nLet your skin 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