Elephant chords by Jason Isbell

Chords with lyrics

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):

  E minor 7Em7 G6G6 A7sus4A7sus4 Cadd9Cadd9 Dsus2Dsus2 Dsus2/F#
e|---0---0-----0------0------0--------0-----|
BB|---3---3-----3------3------3--------3-----|
G+G|---0---0-----0------0------2--------2-----|
D MajorD|---0---0-----2------2------0--------0-----|
A augmentedA|---2---2-----0------3------x--------x-----|
E MajorE|---0---3-----x------x------x--------2-----|

Intro:

E minor 7Em7 G6G6 A7sus4A7sus4

Verse 1:

     E minor 7Em7      G6G6     A7sus4A7sus4
She said Andy you're better than your past,
E minor 7Em7       G6G6     A7sus4A7sus4
winked at me and drained her glass,
   E minor 7Em7      G6G6       A7sus4A7sus4     E minor 7Em7  G6G6  A7sus4A7sus4
cross-legged on the barstool, like nobody sits anymore
     E minor 7Em7     G6G6    A7sus4A7sus4
She said Andy you're taking me home,
   E minor 7Em7   G6G6        A7sus4A7sus4
but I knew she planned to sleep alone
  E minor 7Em7     G6G6   A7sus4A7sus4           E minor 7Em7  G6G6  A7sus4A7sus4
I'd carry her to bed and sweep up the hair from the floor


Chorus:

     Cadd9Cadd9       Dsus2Dsus2
If I had fucked her before she got sick
  G6G6  Dsus2/F# E minor 7Em7
I'd never hear the end of it
Cadd9Cadd9       Dsus2Dsus2      E minor 7Em7
she don't have the spirit for that now
  Cadd9Cadd9         Dsus2Dsus2
We drink these drinks and laugh out loud,
G6G6   Dsus2/F# E minor 7Em7
bitch about the weekend crowd,
  Cadd9Cadd9       Dsus2Dsus2    E minor 7Em7  G6G6  A7sus4A7sus4
and try to ignore the elephant somehow
  E minor 7Em7  G6G6  A7sus4A7sus4
somehow

Verse2:
     E minor 7Em7   G6G6  A7sus4A7sus4
She said Andy you crack me up,
E minor 7Em7      G6G6   A7sus4A7sus4
Seagram's in a coffee cup,
   E minor 7Em7     G6G6   A7sus4A7sus4     E minor 7Em7  G6G6  A7sus4A7sus4
sharecropper eyes and her hair almost all gone
     E minor 7Em7    G6G6    A7sus4A7sus4
When she was drunk she made cancer jokes,
     E minor 7Em7  G6G6      A7sus4A7sus4
she made up her own doctor's notes,
  E minor 7Em7      G6G6   A7sus4A7sus4           E minor 7Em7  G6G6  A7sus4A7sus4
surrounded by her family, I saw that she was dying alone

Chorus:

  Cadd9Cadd9      Dsus2Dsus2
I'd sing her classic country songs
  G6G6    Dsus2/F# E minor 7Em7
and she'd get high and sing along
Cadd9Cadd9        Dsus2Dsus2       E minor 7Em7
She don't have much voice to sing with now
   Cadd9Cadd9        Dsus2Dsus2
We'd burn these joints in effigy,
G6G6  Dsus2/F#   E minor 7Em7
cry about what we used to be,
  Cadd9Cadd9       Dsus2Dsus2    E minor 7Em7  G6G6  A7sus4A7sus4
and try to ignore the elephant somehow
E minor 7Em7
Somehow


Chorus:

 Cadd9Cadd9    Dsus2Dsus2
I buried her a thousand times,
  G6G6   Dsus2/F# E minor 7Em7
giving up my place in line,
Cadd9Cadd9       Dsus2Dsus2      E minor 7Em7
but I don't give a damn about that now
    Cadd9Cadd9         Dsus2Dsus2
There's one thing that's real clear to me,
G6G6   Dsus2/F# E minor 7Em7
no one dies with dignity
    Cadd9Cadd9       Dsus2Dsus2    E minor 7Em7  G6G6  A7sus4A7sus4
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
    Cadd9Cadd9       Dsus2Dsus2    E minor 7Em7  G6G6  A7sus4A7sus4
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
    Cadd9Cadd9       Dsus2Dsus2    E minor 7Em7  G6G6  A7sus4A7sus4
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
  E minor 7Em7
Somehow
  E minor 7Em7
Somehow