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