Elephant chords by Jason Isbell

Song: Elephant
Artist: Jason Isbell
Album: Southeastern
All credit for this tab should go to Bryce Kujala. I simply added the rest of the chords.

Capo 4 for the live version, Capo 5 for the album version

Chords (relative to capo):

  Em7 G6 A7sus4 Cadd9 Dsus2 Dsus2/F#
e|---0---0-----0------0------0--------0-----|
B|---3---3-----3------3------3--------3-----|
G|---0---0-----0------0------2--------2-----|
D|---0---0-----2------2------0--------0-----|
A|---2---2-----0------3------x--------x-----|
E|---0---3-----x------x------x--------2-----|

Intro:


Em7 G6 A7sus4

Verse 1:

     Em7      G6     A7sus4
She said Andy you're better than your past,
Em7       G6     A7sus4
winked at me and drained her glass,
   Em7      G6       A7sus4     Em7  G6  A7sus4
cross-legged on the barstool, like nobody sits anymore
     Em7     G6    A7sus4
She said Andy you're taking me home,
   Em7   G6        A7sus4
but I knew she planned to sleep alone
  Em7     G6   A7sus4           Em7  G6  A7sus4
I'd carry her to bed and sweep up the hair from the floor


Chorus:

     Cadd9       Dsus2
If I had fucked her before she got sick
  G6  Dsus2/F# Em7
I'd never hear the end of it
Cadd9       Dsus2      Em7
she don't have the spirit for that now
  Cadd9         Dsus2
We drink these drinks and laugh out loud,
G6   Dsus2/F# Em7
bitch about the weekend crowd,
  Cadd9       Dsus2    Em7  G6  A7sus4
and try to ignore the elephant somehow
  Em7  G6  A7sus4
somehow

Verse2:
     Em7   G6  A7sus4
She said Andy you crack me up,
Em7      G6   A7sus4
Seagram's in a coffee cup,
   Em7     G6   A7sus4     Em7  G6  A7sus4
sharecropper eyes and her hair almost all gone
     Em7    G6    A7sus4
When she was drunk she made cancer jokes,
     Em7  G6      A7sus4
she made up her own doctor's notes,
  Em7      G6   A7sus4           Em7  G6  A7sus4
surrounded by her family, I saw that she was dying alone


Chorus:

  Cadd9      Dsus2
I'd sing her classic country songs
  G6    Dsus2/F# Em7
and she'd get high and sing along
Cadd9        Dsus2       Em7
She don't have much voice to sing with now
   Cadd9        Dsus2
We'd burn these joints in effigy,
G6  Dsus2/F#   Em7
cry about what we used to be,
  Cadd9       Dsus2    Em7  G6  A7sus4
and try to ignore the elephant somehow
Em7
Somehow


Chorus:

 Cadd9    Dsus2
I buried her a thousand times,
  G6   Dsus2/F# Em7
giving up my place in line,
Cadd9       Dsus2      Em7
but I don't give a damn about that now
    Cadd9         Dsus2
There's one thing that's real clear to me,
G6   Dsus2/F# Em7
no one dies with dignity
    Cadd9       Dsus2    Em7  G6  A7sus4
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
    Cadd9       Dsus2    Em7  G6  A7sus4
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
    Cadd9       Dsus2    Em7  G6  A7sus4
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
  Em7
Somehow
  Em7
Somehow