Reading Days chords by Henry Jamison

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

🎸 Intro:
E MajorE A augmentedA x2

🎸 Verse:
E MajorE                  A augmentedA       BB       A augmentedA
On the fainting couch, that's Monica flare for the dramatic oh, so it goes
E MajorE
and in the kitchen there, that's Leonore
A augmentedA      BB              A augmentedA
who I adore, whether I should or not well I don't know


🎸 Chorus:
E MajorE        C# minorC#m
and reading the Marquise of O
    BB         E MajorE
on the balcony, that's me

🎸 Instrumental:
E MajorE A augmentedA

🎸 Verse:
E MajorE              A augmentedA         E MajorE
Walking in the garden, with Penelope she says "you may kiss me now,
  A augmentedA
no one will see"

🎸 Bridge:
     G# minorG#m             A augmentedA
I say "my heart is another's and that makes me free
         G# minorG#m          A augmentedA
besides I have a hard-won faith in the eternal Sophie
          G# minorG#m             A augmentedA
you think I'd just throw it away, for a little TLC?"
        C# minorC#m      BB
and reading the Answer to Job has been good for me

E MajorE      F# minorF#m     BB       A augmentedA         E MajorE     F# minorF#m     A augmentedA
I was just a narcissist, a solipsist, a fantasist in that old house down by the sea
        G# minorG#m
and reading the Marquise of O
    A augmentedA         E MajorE
on the balcony, that's me

🎸 Outro:
E MajorE A augmentedA x2