Joan In The Garden chords by The Decemberists

• Capo on 1st
• Difficulty: Intermediate

🎸 Verse:

B
In a book I found
B           G#m F#
Joan in the garden
B
I will write this down
B              G#m    B      E
I will lay her heart in mine


🎸 Pre-Chorus:

       G#m
For a time
         F#
Write a line
         B
Erase a line

🎸 Verse:

B
In the dawning light (In the dawning light)
B              G#m  F#
As she left her body
B
Gifted second sight (Gifted second sight)
B               G#m B      E
Did she lay her dowry by


🎸 Pre-Chorus:

       G#m
Lay it by
         F#
Write a line
         B
Erase a line

Cadd9   B   E


🎸 Chorus:

E
And if you listen closely
G#m
You can hear them singing
F#
Ho, oh oh, oh oh
F#
Ho, oh oh, oh oh
E
And if you listen closely
G#m
You can hear them singing
F#
Ho, oh oh, oh oh
F#                      B
Ho, oh oh, oh oh, Hosanna


🎸 Verse:

B

B
Make her ten miles tall (Make her ten miles tall)
B                   G#m   F#
Make her arms cleave mountains
B
Let her temptors fall (Let her temptors fall)
B                   G#m    B      E
Make her tears weep fountains by


🎸 Pre-Chorus:

       G#m
Now to try
         F#
Write a line
        B
Erase a line

Cadd9   B   E


🎸 Chorus:

E
And if you listen closely
G#m
You can hear them singing
F#
Ho, oh oh, oh oh
F#
Ho, oh oh, oh oh
E
And if you listen closely
G#m
You can hear them singing
F#
Ho, oh oh, oh oh
F#                      B
Ho, oh oh, oh oh, Hosanna

B

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Cycle between E for 4 measures, and then G#m for 4 measures
Gradually strum more intense as the other instruments come in

Do this as many times as you like :)

🎸 Verse:

E
Just another tinsel ornament
                 G#m
Another troubled sky
E
We are folded in the firmament
               G#m
Catch us as we fly
E
I don't remember what I ought to be
                   G#m
I only know what's right
E
I'm suspended from the orrery
              G#m
Bursting into light
E
If you listen closely
You can hear them singing
G#m
Ho, hosanna, hosanna
E
If you listen closely
You can hear them singing
G#m                      E
Ho, hosanna, hosanna yeah
          G#m
Hosanna yeah
                    E
Hosanna, hosanna yeah
          G#m
Hosanna yeah
                    E
Hosanna, hosanna yeah
          G#m
Hosanna yeah

E

G#m

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(15:53)

🎸 Intro:


G#m F# E D#  x4


🎸 Verse:

G#m   F#
Over stone and grapevine
E        D#
Over the souls on the breadline
G#m        F#            E
There's a reckoning at hand
    D#
Our hand
G#m       F#
See them flayed at the flagpole
E        D#
Catch it all on your console
G#m      F#                  E
We have come at your command
   D#
We stand

We stand


🎸 Interlude:

G#m F# E D#  x2


🎸 Verse:

G#m      F#
Blessed babe on display
E         D#
Break her skull on the parquet
G#m      F#         E
Wayward mariner awake!
   D#
We pray
G#m     F#
She is daughter and son
E      D#
The imperium undone
G#m     F#              E
All the autocrats are laid
D#
To waste
To waste


🎸 Interlude:

G#m F# E D#  x2


(Play along with song for the synth solo)

🎸 Solo:

C#m  D#  G#m E B

E    F#   D#   G#m

C#m     D#     G#m F# E D#m E

F# G#bdim


🎸 Verse:

G#m      F#
Oh holy whore androgyne
E       D#
Come and sunder the stop signs
G#m      F#
Break it all so we can build
E       D#
Again
G#m      F#
Bring on duke or dauphin
E       D#
Blood will flow like a fountain
G#m      F#
As it ever was so it
E       D#
Will be again
Will be again
G#m      F#
As it ever was so it
E       D#
Will be again
Will be again
G#m      F#
As it ever was
E          D#
So it will be again, again


🎸 Outro:

G#m   F#      E        D#
Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna yeah
G#m F# E D#
       Hosanna yeah
G#m F# E D#
       Hosanna yeah

G#m F# E D#  x2

G#m