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Portable Television chords by Death Cab For Cutie

Chords with lyrics

Album: Codes and Keys
Tabbed by: Don Tago


Standard Tuning


Chords used:
    EADGBe
Am: 002210
C/G:332010
Em: 022000
G:  320033

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Intro: Chord diagramG+G
Verse 1 chords:
Chord diagramG+G
Portable television, shrouded in snow
     Chord diagramA minorAm                 Chord diagramC/GC/G
In a raggedy van on the side of the road
    Chord diagramG+G
The night it had frozen through my little bones
       Chord diagramA minorAm                        Chord diagramC/GC/G
So you took me in your arms, you squeezed out the cold


Chorus 1 chords:
Chord diagramG+G                       Chord diagramA minorAm          Chord diagramC/GC/G
And oh-h-h-h, oh-h-h-h, oh-h-h-h-h, oh-h-h-h-h
Chord diagramG+G                       Chord diagramA minorAm          Chord diagramC/GC/G         Chord diagramG+G
And oh-h-h-h, oh-h-h-h, oh-h-h-h-h, oh-h-h-h-h


Verse 2: use verse 1 chords
Upstate New York, autumn, brightly colored leaves
Oh, the hills were on fire, they burn for you and me
And where we were going it was built like a lie
But as sacred as the Bible, so we didn't question why


Chorus 2: use chorus 1 chords
And oh-h-h-h, oh-h-h-h, oh-h-h-h-h, oh-h-h-h-h
And oh-h-h-h, oh-h-h-h, oh-h-h-h-h, oh-h-h-h-h


Bridge:
  Chord diagramC/GC/G                 Chord diagramG+G
I saw it in the soil just recently
          Chord diagramA minorAm                                   Chord diagramG+G
Where the rows of teeth they grow in fields of infinite greed
    Chord diagramC/GC/G                       Chord diagramG+G
And here laid the father, and here stood the son
          Chord diagramA minorAm                         Chord diagramG+G             Chord diagramC/GC/G
Where the road meets the horizon for everyone, for everyone


Verse 3: use verse 1 chords
Portable television, take us away
From this burden of reflection we've carried today
Oh, the generator's running but there's nothing on the air
And the static is a comfort, so we huddle around and stare


Chorus 3: use chorus 1 chords
And oh-h-h-h, oh-h-h-h, oh-h-h-h-h, oh-h-h-h-h
And oh-h-h-h, oh-h-h-h, oh-h-h-h-h, oh-h-h-h-h

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