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The Moon
The Swell Season
After playing through the other tab that's up here, all the chord structures
seemed correct, but it sounds better with a capo on the second fret so I
figured I'd take their tab and just write in the chords after capo.  All
chords are relative to capo.
As well, a large part of the song is simply the strumming style mixed with
all of the muted strums on the strings (and that awesome reverb), so be sure
to listen to the actual song to know the general pattern.
Capo II
[Intro]
Fmaj7 Am
Fmaj7 Am
[Verse]
  Fmaj7Cut the bonds with the Ammoon
  Fmaj7And let the dogs Amgather
  Fmaj7Burn the gauze in the Amspoon
  Fmaj7And suck the Ampoison up
And GbleeFdAm  
[Verse]
  Fmaj7Shut the door to the Ammoon
  Fmaj7And let the birds gatheAmr
  Fmaj7Play no more with the Amfool
  Fmaj7And let the souls wandeAmr
And GbleFedAm  
From the GsoFulAm  
[Chorus]
A Emslow Fhurt.. and it C/Gbreaks us..
And Emso dowFn,
C/GDown, down and so Emplain
So Fdown
When you C/Gplay some more it Emseems Fso
And my C/Gfriends are past this Emgame
Of breakFdowns
And our C/Gfriends that are lost at Emsea..
Throw Fdown
And I'll C/Gbreak the wasted Emspace
Slow Fdown, slow downC/G,
If you Emdon't slow Fdown, slow C/Gdown
If you Emdon't slow Fdown, slow.C/G.
Fmaj7 Am
Fmaj7 Am
[Verse]
  Fmaj7Cut the bonds with the Ammoon
  Fmaj7And watch the dogs Amgather

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The Moon

by Glen Hansard

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

Chords in this song · guitar

Fmaj7

C/G

The Moon

The Swell Season

After playing through the other tab that's up here, all the chord structures

seemed correct, but it sounds better with a capo on the second fret so I

figured I'd take their tab and just write in the chords after capo. All

chords are relative to capo.

As well, a large part of the song is simply the strumming style mixed with

all of the muted strums on the strings (and that awesome reverb), so be sure

to listen to the actual song to know the general pattern.

Capo II

[Intro]

Fmaj7 Am

[Verse]

Fmaj7 Am

Cut the bonds with the moon

Fmaj7 Am

And let the dogs gather

Fmaj7 Am

Burn the gauze in the spoon

Fmaj7 Am

And suck the poison up

G F Am

And bleed

[Verse]

Fmaj7 Am

Shut the door to the moon

Fmaj7 Am

And let the birds gather

Fmaj7 Am

Play no more with the fool

Fmaj7 Am

And let the souls wander

G F Am

And bleed

G F Am

From the soul

[Chorus]

Em F C/G

A slow hurt.. and it breaks us..

Em F

And so down,

C/G Em

Down, down and so plain

So down

C/G Em F

When you play some more it seems so

C/G Em

And my friends are past this game

Of breakdowns

C/G Em

And our friends that are lost at sea..

Throw down

C/G Em

And I'll break the wasted space

F C/G

Slow down, slow down,

Em F C/G

If you don't slow down, slow down

Em F C/G

If you don't slow down, slow..

Fmaj7 Am

[Verse]

Fmaj7 Am

Cut the bonds with the moon

Fmaj7 Am

And watch the dogs gather

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