Ashes And Fire chords by Ryan Adams

Ashes & Fire ~  Ryan Adams   Capo on 3

Pretty easy lick that comes after every verse and played on open G-major(shape)throughout:
Hammer on the low E on the first downstrum for the bass sound and them a hammer on-and-off
on the B string first fret with index finger (again in the open Gmajor shape), to get that
?daa-de-daa sound.


1st Verse

G     C               G
As he stared past the fire
                            C                     G
His hunger to leave well it gnawed his poor heart alive
    C                       G      C       G
Her skin smelled like black cherry blossom perfume
    C           G             D
The sail boats, they all sail sailed by
        C         G
and the river she cried

2nd Verse

G                         C                      G
And the wind was suddenly sweeter than Roosevelt pine
                              C                       G
The windows broke out and the cigarette smoke drifted by
    C           G                C                G
The bums on the bowery they were swallowed in the lights
   C              G         D
as cars rolled on by in the night
          C            G
screaming run for your life


Chorus

     Em       C       G
With cool and silvery eyes
     Em             C       G
in a heart that was fit for desires
Em         C        G
Drown in a river of tears oh
    C         G
the river she cried left
C          D
her with a hea-----rt
        C         G
made of ashes and fire

Solo

Em       C       G            x3

C   G    C    G   C    D

C         G


3rd Verse

G                    C                              G
One day there was a silence that washed through the town
                       C                       G
there was no reason to speak and no one made a sound
    C         G          C             G
Her eyes were indigo the cats were all calico
    C               G          D
the sail boats they all sailed by
       C         G
in the river she cried


Chorus

     Em       C       G
With cool and silvery eyes
     Em             C       G
in a heart that was fit for desires
Em         C        G
Drown in a river of tears oh
    C         G
the river she cried left
C          D
her with a hea-----rt
        C         G
made of ashes and fire

Em         C         G
           ashes and fire
Em         C         G
           ashes and fire
Em         C         G
           ashes and fire