Chords with lyrics
The Navesink Banks by The Gaslight Anthem. Only a bonus track to Handwritten but a superb song nonetheless
and one of my personal favourites. I don't think any tab on here has it quite right yet so here is what I
believe is correct.
Tuning: Eb MajorEb
Intro: Am, F, Am, F, C, G, A minorAm x2
A minorAm FF A minorAm FF
"All hope abandon, ye who enter here"
C majorC G+G A minorAm
Said the sign I read that was hanging above her bed
FF
And the siren's all willing
A minorAm FF
But a man can't ignore the signs
C majorC G+G A minorAm
You gotta keep a good eye on the winding road ahead
C majorC G+G FF
And my first sin was a young American girl
C majorC G+G FF
And my first sin was a young American girl
Interlude: Am, F, Am, F, C, G, A minorAm
A minorAm FF
And I spent time 'neath the trestles
A minorAm FF
With the punks and the dimestore saints
C majorC G+G FF
We kept faith and a switchblade tucked beneath my coat (Baby, just in case)
FF
And I ran with dirty angels
A minorAm FF
Slept out in the rain
C majorC G+G A minorAm
We were scared and tired and barely seventeen
C majorC G+G FF
And my first sin was the fear that made me old
C majorC G+G FF
And my first sin was the fear that made me old
Interlude: Am, F, Am, F, C, G, A minorAm
FF
And now I walk down by the shipyards
G+G
Near the place where I was born
C majorC FF
Saying, "Oh Maria, if you'da known me when"
A minorAm FF A minorAm FF
But she only smiles by the light on the Navesink Banks
C majorC G+G A minorAm
Saying, "Listen baby, I know you now"
A minorAm FF
Then she steps into the river
A minorAm FF
And I just stand by the moon
C majorC G+G A minorAm
Thinking 'bout a ghost I hear at night
C majorC G+G FF
And she says, "Your first sin was a lie you told yourself.
C majorC G+G FF
"And your first sin was a lie you told... to yourself.
Outro: Am, F, Am, F, C, G, A minorAm x2
And if you want to know the little riff he plays at certain parts of the song it is this:
E MajorE|-02h-------------|
A augmentedA|----02p0---------|
D MajorD|-----------------|
G+G|-----------------|
BB|-----------------|
E MajorE|-----------------|