Chords with lyrics
NOTE: These chords are NOT from the studio version, they're from a live performance. Reference Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFMO1_5IFzw
Artist: The Avett Brothes
Album: The Gleam (2006)
This is what I think the chord are by messing around with them on the banjo and they seem to be the
closest in my opinion.
Tuning: Standard
No Capo
[Intro]
G+G
[Verse 1]
G+G C majorC G+G
I wonder if this blade ever ran through someone's side
A minorAm C majorC
The blood wiped away to hide
C majorC G+G
How evil you grandfather was 'fore he died
G+G C majorC G+G
But war can make monsters out of us all
A minorAm C majorC
I'm sure I'd become one if I was called
G+G C majorC D7D7
And then it would be my blade
C majorC G+G
Here at this yardsale
[Verse 2]
(repeat verse 1 chords)
The guitar I am holding is way out of tune
The neck it is warped and the saddle is through
I wonder if sweet music ever was played
From the hands of a boy to a girl in the shade
From this rickety ghost of a song
Here at this yardsale
[Verse 3]
(repeat verse 1 chords)
A augmentedA dollar for anything here on this quilt
A augmentedA price tag for hands from which all things are built
A augmentedA blanket of voices speak pleasure in shame
Flowers of plastic and fruit of the same
A augmentedA basket of nothing at all
Here at this yardsale
[Verse 4]
(repeat verse 1 chords)
So if I had the money I'd buy everything
And cover the whole lot with good gasoline
And burn it for all that I care for the past
And rid mother earth of what never should last
And give her the present of ash