O New England chords by The Decemberists

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: G

Difficulty: Novice

Verse:
A             D
We'd come seven hours down
A                D
Took the blue line to see where we hopped out
A           D
And I was only joking, I was only joking
A           D
And I was only trying to get a laugh

A                     D
You say this was the furthest that we had come
A               D
We traveled so far to watch it fall undone
A            D
And I had lost my token, you were looking bent and broken
A             D
Staring sideways with the rain coming down

Chorus:
Bm      E
But I am so enthralled
A
O New England
   D
La da dum dum
A
O New England
   D
La da dum dum

Verse:
A                    D
This here is the fable of a failed attempt
(Fable, failed attempt, now.)
A                 D
To find new life in a love in the seat of its origin
(failed attempt, now)
A             D
From Long to Coney Island, from Mid to West to Upper Highland
A                D
And all I got is this ill-gotten full color souvenir

Chorus:
Bm            E
The new millennium in New York
        A
And all of New England
   D
La da dum dum
   A
O New England
   D
La da dum dum

Bridge:
   Bm
O New England
          D
In the face of your empire
                  Bm
I think I'd rather just wait in the car
         D
And return to the turnpike
            E
Watching New England's skyline sinking below
     A
Sinking below
     D
Sinking below

Outro:
A           D
We'd come seven hours down
A           D
We'd come seven hours down, down
A           D
We'd come seven hours down
A           D
We'd come seven hours down, down