After Eliot chords by Flynn Johnny

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                             AFTER ELIOT - JOHNNY FLYNN
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Tabbed by: brynaguitar


Tuning: DGCFAd

d|---|
A|-2-|
F|-2-|
C|-1-|
G|-2-|
D|-2-|

Intro: E B7 x4

Verse 1:
   E          F#m           A     E
We shared the experience of being alive
            F#m       A
And then we took some tea
E           F#m    A        E
We finished up and all on a whim
             F#m    A
We talked as it was free


B               A
When we went to get the bill
    E              B
The lady looked us over
B                     A
She told us, 'now you stay quite still
         E             B
And I'll fetch in some clover'



Pre-chorus:
C#m            B      A       C#m
And all of the yellow melancholy
          B          A
The world about grew stark
    C#m  B        A          C#m
The only sound in all of the place
                B    A    (A-B-A)
Was the singing of a lark



Chorus:
        C#m      B       A             E
It sang Holly go lightly bright as the day
C#m          B        A
Fresh as the moon and stale as the hay
C#m         B      A           E
Cold as the window frozen with frost
C#m            B            A   (A-B-A)
You never been seen and you never       been lost


E B7 x2


Verse 2:
E          F#m     A          E
And lost I was for all of the time
         F#m         A
We never shared thereafter
E          F#m       A          E
Closing my books and shoeing my feet
E            F#m     A
The air blew in much darker



B                         A
Floor boards they've been laughing at me
    E                    B
The folds of my skin are frayed
                     A
I'm the oldest man I know by now
          E              B
I was the youngest yesterday



Pre-chorus:
C#m        B       A        C#m
What did I lose to mourn so long
              B         A
A worm in the heart has tamed me
C#m       B         A    C#m
Laying to rest in a ventricle
             B       A    (A-B-A)
Stirs when I take my tea



Chorus:
       C#m      B       A             E
It sang Holly go lightly bright as the day
C#m          B        A
Fresh as the moon and stale as the hay
C#m         B      A           E
Cold as the window frozen with frost
C#m            B            A   (A-B-A)
You never been seen and you never       been lost


E B7 x4


Verse 3:
E         F#m          A             E
I saw her once and she came upon the midday
            F#m      A
And gave me both her hands
E               F#m         A               E
It seemed while I was still dreaming of the waves
                 F#m      A
That she lived a while on land

B                  A
Slipping through a stream of dark
    E                  B
The streets laid out a way
B                A
Stayed above the level
        E                  B
Kept my wandering heart at bay


Pre-chorus:
C#m                   B              A                C#m
In the sage strands a feeling in the landlord's daily dealing
                    B        A
There's a turn of a twisting smile
C#m           B             A                  C#m
Cheap is your time when our tea don't taste so fine
                  B      A     (A-B-A)
How are you, it's been a while




Chorus:
        C#m      B       A             E
It sang Holly go lightly bright as the day
C#m          B        A
Fresh as the moon and stale as the hay
C#m         B      A           E
Cold as the window frozen with frost
C#m            B            A          E