Michelle chords by Field Report

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard tuning


SONG:  MICHELLE
ARTIST: FIELD REPORT
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/0nG7JJWHkLM
TAB BY: DON CZARSKI
EMAIL: [email protected]

      ===== TAKEN FROM THE LIVE VERSION =====
  OpenAir hosts FIELD REPORT in a performance of MICHELLE.
 Recorded in the CPR Performance Studio on November 11, 2014.

           MICHELLE
          FIELD REPORT

INTRO: G minorGm

VERSE:
G minorGm        Bb majorBb
Oh Michelle, I’m coming down to see you
  Eb MajorEb                  G minorGm
Tonight is bruise-black swelling golden green
  G minorGm        Bb majorBb
I was in bed but I had the dream again
     Eb MajorEb               G minorGm
Where I drive us off the cliff to the ravine
     FF       Bb majorBb
And the car was Shelby blue
 FF                   Bb majorBb
Blue like the one in the photo of your father and you
 FF             Bb majorBb
Blue like the label on the beer you always choose
 FF            G minorGm
Blue like me and you Michelle


VERSE:
G minorGm          Bb majorBb
Oh Michelle, I went looking for the river
   Eb MajorEb              G minorGm
But I only made it to the railroad bed
      G minorGm           Bb majorBb
There were candles there and some days-ago cut flowers
    Eb MajorEb                   G minorGm
For the guy who had been knifed there by his friend
    FF               Bb majorBb
And my eyes could not adjust to the flames against the leaves
 FF              Bb majorBb
Someone was watching from nearby
  FF            Bb majorBb
I heard a phone chime from shallow in the trees
FF            C minorCm  Bb majorBb FF Bb majorBb C minorCm Bb majorBb G minorGm
I had to come see you Michelle

VERSE:
G minorGm          Bb majorBb
oh Michelle, we are trafficking in wonder,
 Eb MajorEb                G minorGm
worshiping the wounds upon your cheek
            Bb majorBb
kiss me shy and I will love you like a lamprey
    Eb MajorEb           G minorGm
in the cool cool water in the creek
  FF      Bb majorBb
tornadoes transform and leave us changed
   FF               Bb majorBb
and everyone we know will break on us like waves
 FF                 Bb majorBb
take your hands and cover up your eyes and your face
 FF              G minorGm
tell me what you see now Michelle


VERSE:
G minorGm      Bb majorBb
oh Michelle, first light might come too late
Eb MajorEb                   G minorGm
let’s outdrive the headlights and the stars
            Bb majorBb
and the roof held, but only 'til the rain fell
     Eb MajorEb               G minorGm
now it’s leaking love inside my captain’s car
       FF              Bb majorBb
I tossed my chevrons out the window on the way over here
 FF              Bb majorBb
Uncle Sam can meet me by the treeline
    FF             Bb majorBb
he and I and your husband we can work it out like men
  FF      C minorCm    Bb majorBb FF
but we won’t end up eye to eye


INSTRUMENTAL:
C minorCm Bb majorBb G minorGm FF  Eb MajorEb Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb


VERSE/OUTRO:
Bb majorBb          FF
oh Michelle, I can’t say the things that I’ve seen
     C minorCm               G minorGm
from the time that I was gone and then returned
                 Bb majorBb
but I got five thousand bucks, a full tank of gas,
    Eb MajorEb                      G minorGm
and a stars and stripes beach towel with a cigarette burn
    FF            Bb majorBb
If we leave right now we’ll be there by morning
 FF            Bb majorBb
there being anywhere but here
    FF            Bb majorBb
we can make a new start; we can make up new names
 FF               G minorGm  Bb majorBb
I’ve already picked yours, Michelle.