Gymnast High Above The Ground chords by The Decemberists

• Difficulty: Beginner

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Intro:
G G A A

D D D D



🎸 Verse 1:
G     A      D
- The gymnast, high above the ground,
G       A     D
- Limbers up and falls timber town
G     A       D
- Ankles splayed and all tied
G     Em D  G
- The gymnast long has arrived
   Em    D    G
Lasy -- your long sister lays
    Em    D  G
Waiting out this long light brigade
      Em   D  G
Prayed for snow a long time
     Em   D  G
And lazy -- it long has arrived

🎸 Chorus:
G
- Through the tarlatan holes
                   C
You've been slipping, been slipping away
G
- And the weather will hold
               C
It's been ever, so ever, so gray


🎸 Verse 2:
   Em      G
And here as we're coming down
    C
We're sounding out:
    Cm         Em
It's a terrible, terrible tide
D   G        C
As it lights upon your eye
   Em      G         C
But there on the motorway, reeks of marmalade
    Cm         Em
It's a chemical, chemical kind
    G        C
As it lights upon your eye...
 Am        C
Lights upon your eye


🎸 Bridge:
  D G Em         Bm
The bosun -- calls upon the quay
 D G  Em            Bm
Compass gone, he long has lost his way
  D   G  Em       Bm
To lighthouse shine, to calm tide
  D G Em     Bm
The bosun -- long has arrived


🎸 Chorus:
G
- Through the tarlatan holes
                   C
You've been slipping, been slipping away
G
- And the weather will hold
               C
It's been ever, so ever, so gray


🎸 Verse 3:
   Em      G
And here as we're coming down
    C
We're sounding out:
    Cm         Em
It's a terrible, terrible tide
D   G        C
As it lights upon your eye
   Em      G         C
But there on the motorway, reeks of marmalade
    Cm         Em
It's a chemical, chemical kind
    G        C
As it lights upon your eye...
 Am        C
Lights upon your eye


🎸 Outro:
Em   G   C
April marches on
Em   G   C
April marches on
Em   G   C
April marches on
Em   G   C
April marches on