Red Elephant chords by Born Ruffians

Chords with lyrics

CAPO ON 6th FRET
Chord shapes are relative to the capo.
This tab is based on this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fODHbthvNE0&feature=related


Intro/Verse Chords
  E5E5  C#5C#5   B5B5       Riff on E MajorE
e---0  --0  --0     --0---------0
B---0  --0  --0     --0----------
G---9  --6  --4     --1----0h1---
D---9  --6  --4     --2 2-------
A---7  --4  --2     --2--2-------
E---0  --0  --0     --0--0-------

Chorus chords
  F#F#   C#5C#5   B5B5   E MajorE
e---   ---   ---  --0
B---   ---   ---  --0
G---   --6   --4  --1
D--4   --6   --4  --2
A--4   --4   --2  --2
E--2   ---   ---  --0

Outro Chords
  G#G#   F#F#   E MajorE
e--0  --0  --0
B--0  --0  --0
G--0  --0  --1
D--6  --4  --2
A--6  --4  --2
E--4  --2  --0


E5E5            C#5C#5  B5B5
When am I supposed to say so long?
E5E5            C#5C#5  B5B5
When am I supposed to say so long?

B5B5   F#5F#5   C#5C#5    B5B5   E MajorE
When I fall in love 'fore dusk is dawn
E MajorE    F#5F#5   C#5C#5   B5B5    E MajorE
When you take my hand across the lawn
E MajorE    F#5F#5   C#5C#5      B5B5    E MajorE
With the eyes so sweet they're like a fawn
  F#5F#5 C#5C#5  B5B5   E MajorE
Red elephant is wet & long...

E5E5            C#5C#5 B5B5
How am I supposed to wash you off?
E5E5             C#5C#5  B5B5
Rungs of bad poems I've hacked & coughed

B5B5   F#5F#5   C#5C#5   B5B5     E MajorE
But I have to spare a breath for you
E MajorE      F#5F#5  C#5C#5   B5B5   E MajorE
Which I'll take, before we make anew
   F#5F#5     C#5C#5    B5B5   E MajorE
Our hearts will take a stroll for two
  F#5F#5    C#5C#5   B5B5   E MajorE
Our feet will take the avenue
 F#5F#5  C#5C#5 B5B5   E MajorE
& Walk in unison, so cute
   F#5F#5 C#5C#5   B5B5   E MajorE
Red elephant is turning blue

E5E5            C#5C#5  B5B5
Why am I here when you're over there?
Let's meet at the fountains
In Dundas Square
Who am I supposed to be with you?
I'll wait 'til you say & pretend I knew

B5B5   F#5F#5   C#5C#5    B5B5     E MajorE
Because if it's true that walls can talk
How mine would brag of tears I've sobbed
When thinking of the way we walked
Along the paths of sideway chalk
Forever under ticking clock
Where you & I are free to flock

E5E5              C#5C#5  B5B5
What can I write when I know it's wrong?
Slapping my knee to my own damn song
Where can we go when the sinking stops?
To the pit of my chest
As it drops and drops...

     F#5F#5 C#5C#5  B5B5     E MajorE
But your head upon my chest, it breathes
And my fingers through your hair they weave
And your shoulders are the perfect sea
In which I get lost invariably
Oh the elephant is up to sea
If it meets the peach fish underneath
& When I am you and you are me
We are stirred as spoons in lover's tea

G#G#     F#F#       E MajorE
Whoa oh oh whoa oh whoa oh whoa


The chord changes come fast and furious at the end, but thats about it.