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Ballad Of The Dying Man chords by Father John Misty

Chords with lyrics

This is my favorite of the singles we've heard from "Pure Comedy" so far, so I figured
I'd take a minute to transcribe the chords.

In typical Josh fashion, the guitar is in Chord diagramD MajorD tuning (DGCFAD). There are a couple times
in the song where it sounds like he might even be downtuned to Db, but I haven't seen him


          Chord diagramFF           Chord diagramFmaj7Fmaj7          Chord diagramF7F7            Chord diagramBb majorBb
       _xooo_        _xooo_        x_ooo_        x__o_o
       ||||||        ||||||        |||||?        |||| |
       ||||||        |||||?        | ||||        || |||
        ||||?         |||||         |||||        | ||||
       ||||||        ||||||        ||||||        ||||||

        Chord diagramF/AF/A            Chord diagramG minorGm           Chord diagramGm7Gm7          Chord diagramAbdim7Abdim7
       x_oo_o        xo___o        xo___o        x__o_x
       |||| |        |||| |        |||| |        | ||||
       | ||||        || ?||        || ?||        || | |
       ||||||        ||||||        |||||?        ||||||
       ||||||        ||||||        ||||||        ||||||

         Chord diagramDmDm            Chord diagramEb MajorEb            Chord diagramA minorAm          Dbmaj-5
       o__ooo        ______        x_____        x____x
       ||||||         ||| ?        ||||||    5fr ||||||
       | ?|||        ||| ||        | |||?        | ||||
       ||||||        | ?|||        |||| |        || |||
       ||||||        ||||||        || ?||        ||| ?|

         Chord diagramDbDb            Chord diagramG7G7             Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramAbAb
       x_____        xo_o_o        x_o___        x_____
   5fr ||||||        ||||||        ||||||        | |||?
       | |||?        || | |        ||| |?        ||||||
       ||||||        ||||||        |||| |        || ? |
       || ? |        ||||||        ||||||        ||||||


[Intro]
The intro is the same chord sequence as the chorus. I like to accent my strumming in a
way that mimics the high notes of the piano part. On the second Chord diagramFF in the sequence, try
moving your pinky up to the fifth fret of the high Chord diagramD MajorD string (3x0005) and back down to
the third fret (3x0003) in order to follow the piano. Throughout the song, I also alternate
between Chord diagramG minorGm and Chord diagramGm7Gm7 (which I've marked in parentheses) toward the end of phrases in order
to get the higher F-note of the keys, even though it sounds like Josh plays it as a
straight Gm.

Chord diagramFF  Chord diagramFmaj7Fmaj7  Chord diagramF7F7  Chord diagramFF  Chord diagramBb majorBb  Chord diagramF/AF/A  Chord diagramG minorGm  Chord diagramAbdim7Abdim7  Chord diagramG minorGm (Chord diagramGm7Gm7)

[Verse 1]
Chord diagramFF                   Chord diagramDmDm    Chord diagramEb MajorEb           Chord diagramG minorGm (Chord diagramGm7Gm7)
Naturally the dying man wonders to himself:
Chord diagramFF                          Chord diagramDmDm   Chord diagramEb MajorEb           Chord diagramG minorGm (Chord diagramGm7Gm7)
Has commentary been more lucid than anybody else?
     Chord diagramA minorAm                                   Chord diagramF7F7
And had he successively beaten back the rising tide
                Chord diagramDmDm                  Dbmaj-5
Of idiots, dilettantes, and fools
                 Chord diagramAbdim7Abdim7      Chord diagramG minorGm
On his watch while he was alive
Chord diagramFF        Chord diagramAbdim7Abdim7            Chord diagramDbDb    Chord diagramDmDm
Lord, just a little more time

[Chorus 1]
    Chord diagramFF Chord diagramFmaj7Fmaj7 Chord diagramF7F7     Chord diagramFF
Oh, in no time at all
               Chord diagramBb majorBb  Chord diagramF/AF/A  Chord diagramG minorGm
This'll be the distant past
Chord diagramG7G7    Chord diagramG minorGm (Chord diagramGm7Gm7)
Ooh

[Verse 2]
Chord diagramFF                 Chord diagramDmDm   Chord diagramEb MajorEb              Chord diagramG minorGm (Chord diagramGm7Gm7)
So says the dying man once I'm in the box
Chord diagramFF                           Chord diagramDmDm   Chord diagramEb MajorEb            Chord diagramG minorGm (Chord diagramGm7Gm7)
Just think of all the overrated hacks running amok
                 Chord diagramA minorAm                                   Chord diagramF7F7
And all of the pretentious, ignorant voices that will go unchecked
                 Chord diagramDmDm                 Dbmaj-5
The homophobes, hipsters, and 1%
                          Chord diagramAbdim7Abdim7      Chord diagramG minorGm
The false feminists he'd managed to detect
Chord diagramFF          Chord diagramAbdim7Abdim7                     Chord diagramDbDb    Chord diagramDmDm
Oh, who will critique them once he's left?

[Chorus 2]
    Chord diagramFF Chord diagramFmaj7Fmaj7 Chord diagramF7F7     Chord diagramFF
Oh, in no time at all
               Chord diagramBb majorBb  Chord diagramF/AF/A  Chord diagramC majorC
This'll be the distant past

[Bridge]
Chord diagramAbAb                  Chord diagramC majorC               Chord diagramFF         Chord diagramBb majorBb
What he'd give for one more day to rate and analyze
Chord diagramG minorGm                     Chord diagramC majorC           Chord diagramFF        Chord diagramBb majorBb
The world made in his image as of yet to realize
        Chord diagramDmDm      Chord diagramG minorGm     Chord diagramC majorC
What a mess to leave behind

[Verse 3]
Chord diagramFF                    Chord diagramDmDm   Chord diagramEb MajorEb             Chord diagramG minorGm (Chord diagramGm7Gm7)
Eventually the dying man takes his final breath
Chord diagramFF                              Chord diagramDmDm      Chord diagramEb MajorEb                Chord diagramG minorGm (Chord diagramGm7Gm7)
But first checks his news feed to see what he's 'bout to miss
        Chord diagramA minorAm                        Chord diagramF7F7
And it occurs to him a little late in the game
             Chord diagramDmDm                   Dbmaj-5
We leave as clueless as we came
                            Chord diagramAbdim7Abdim7         Chord diagramG minorGm
From rented heavens to the shadows in the cave
Chord diagramFF        Chord diagramAbdim7Abdim7         Chord diagramDbDb    Chord diagramDmDm
We'll all be wrong someday

[Outro]
While Josh sings the "Oh oh oh" bit and the choir comes in, just repeat this sequence
until the end of the song:

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