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Tuning: Standard
Capo on 2
Notes concerning chord shapes at the bottom of the page.
Intro:
  FFadd11*   F    C  C  
  FFadd11   F    C  C  
  FFadd11   F    C  C  
G
Verse 1:
          FFadd11  F                C  C  
All I wanted was a good song and a fair friend
 FFadd11  F       C  C  
You  came along just then
          FFadd11  F                C  C  
You gave me crazy love and you whispered,
G"You got a bottle and nobody that your missin'."
         FFadd11  F                C  C  
I wasn't much of a fighter or a lover
               FFadd11  F                C  C  
You said, "Don't get excited, but take cover"
          FFadd11  F                C  C  
We stepped into the light to pictures of each other
GSome were in black and white, the others were in color
Chorus:
                   FFadd11   F            G          G  C  
Colette, I knew the second we met, you'd go to my head
we Ctook a breath and Amleapt into the Amatmosphere
                   FFadd11      F             G                 G  C  
and I guess it was something you said, we'll rest when we're dead
Cnow it Ammust seem Ampretty clear
That FI Clove Gyou.  FYes, CI Gdo.
Break:
  C/G  D5**  C   F   C   G  G  
(repeat x8)
Chorus (2x as fast as previously played)
  FFadd11   F     G     G  C  
C  Am  Am
  FFadd11   F     G     G  C  
C  Am  Am
                   FFadd11   F            G          G  C  
Colette, I knew the second we met, you'd go to my head
we Ctook a breath and Amleapt into the Amatmosphere
                   FFadd11      F             G                 G  C  
and I guess it was something you said, we'll rest when we're dead
Cnow it Ammust seem Ampretty clear
      F      C       G      F   C  C/G
That I love you. 
*  Fadd11 is used as a passing tone, hammer your pinky onto an A# and then 
immediately release back into F. Chord shape for Fadd11 is simply:
Note concerning chord shapes:
As with many of Folk musicians, Langhorne Slim uses a slight variation in chord 
shapes. The chords will usually feel like they are shaped like C, that is:
To form an F Chord, all you would have to do would be to move your 2 fingers from 
strings. So F would be formed like this:
similarly, G would be played like this:
Note that your pinky is on the high G.  
Another note is that for this song, Langhorne plays C with the added 5th, so just 
keep your pinky like its playing G and your good to go.
The final chord of this song is C/G, the G is the lower G, not the higher one, so 
the chord would be:
This is the same shape of C/G used in the break section.
Forming these chords is far easier then explaining how to :], but I hope this 
helped some people who are new to folk chord shapes.

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Colette

by Langhorne Slim

Lyrics & chords · Original key · Capo on fret 2 (as written in this song)

Chords in this song · guitar

C/G

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Tuning: Standard

Capo on 2

Notes concerning chord shapes at the bottom of the page.

Intro:

F F C C

Fadd11*

F F C C

Fadd11

F F C C

Fadd11

Verse 1:

F F C C

Fadd11

All I wanted was a good song and a fair friend

F F C C

Fadd11

You came along just then

F F C C

Fadd11

You gave me crazy love and you whispered,

"You got a bottle and nobody that your missin'."

F F C C

Fadd11

I wasn't much of a fighter or a lover

F F C C

Fadd11

You said, "Don't get excited, but take cover"

F F C C

Fadd11

We stepped into the light to pictures of each other

Some were in black and white, the others were in color

Chorus:

F F G G C

Fadd11

Colette, I knew the second we met, you'd go to my head

C Am Am

we took a breath and leapt into the atmosphere

F F G G C

Fadd11

and I guess it was something you said, we'll rest when we're dead

C Am Am

now it must seem pretty clear

F C G F C G

That I love you. Yes, I do.

Break:

C/G D5 C F C G G

(repeat x8)

Chorus (2x as fast as previously played)

F F G G C

Fadd11

C Am Am

F F G G C

Fadd11

C Am Am

F F G G C

Fadd11

Colette, I knew the second we met, you'd go to my head

C Am Am

we took a breath and leapt into the atmosphere

F F G G C

Fadd11

and I guess it was something you said, we'll rest when we're dead

C Am Am

now it must seem pretty clear

F C G F C C

That I love you.

* Fadd11 is used as a passing tone, hammer your pinky onto an A# and then

immediately release back into F. Chord shape for Fadd11 is simply:

Note concerning chord shapes:

As with many of Folk musicians, Langhorne Slim uses a slight variation in chord

shapes. The chords will usually feel like they are shaped like C, that is:

To form an F Chord, all you would have to do would be to move your 2 fingers from

strings. So F would be formed like this:

similarly, G would be played like this:

Note that your pinky is on the high G.

Another note is that for this song, Langhorne plays C with the added 5th, so just

keep your pinky like its playing G and your good to go.

The final chord of this song is C/G, the G is the lower G, not the higher one, so

the chord would be:

This is the same shape of C/G used in the break section.

Forming these chords is far easier then explaining how to :], but I hope this

helped some people who are new to folk chord shapes.

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