Chords with lyrics
This is how I play the song! Suggestions and corrections welcome!
I'm not 100% sure but this is what the bass notes sound like to me.
Verse 1:
A minorAm G+G FF C majorC
There is no blues that can sound quite as heartfelt as mine
FF DmDm FF A minorAm
Lamented at the gorge of the river, I watched it weep its banks dry
A minorAm G+G FF C majorC
I hum the sorriest tune on the bar at these dives
FF DmDm FF A minorAm
Send all the patrons running home to make up with their first wives
Chorus:
FF C majorC
(But the low...)
FF A minorAm G+G
(And to bask...)
FF C majorC
(But the low...)
FF A minorAm G+G
(And to bask...)
Verse 2:
A minorAm G+G FF C majorC
My prose is purple but not as pretty as Lucerne
FF DmDm FF A minorAm
For sweet nothings from the lips of a gargoyle, nobody ever yearned
A minorAm G+G FF C majorC
Perpetually a philistine, but darling, I am longing to learn
FF DmDm FF A minorAm
Been looked at like the rotten grape on the vine, while you and yours are drinking Sauternes
Chorus:
FF C majorC
(But the low) is what I came for
FF A minorAm G+G
(And to bask) in a darkness I do adore
FF C majorC
(But the low) is what I came for
FF A minorAm G+G
(And to bask) in a darkness I do adore
FF C majorC
(But the low) is what I came for
FF A minorAm G+G
(And to bask) in a darkness I do adore
FF C majorC
(But the low) is what I came for
FF A minorAm G+G FF
(And to bask) in a darkness I do adore
C majorC FF A minorAm G+G
I do adore, I do adore, I do adore
Instrumental:
FF C majorC FF A minorAm G+G x2
Verse 3:
A minorAm G+G FF C majorC
I am the magpie's solo, the sorrow that makes you salute
FF DmDm FF A minorAm
Pounding the earth for the early worm, I am a glutton but it's good for my glutes
A minorAm G+G FF C majorC
I was solace to the sirens, the bait on the fisherman's rod
FF DmDm FF A minorAm
The hook took me far from my family, but closer to God
Chorus:
FF C majorC
(But the low) is what I came for
FF A minorAm G+G
(And to bask) in a darkness I do adore
FF C majorC
(But the low) is what I came for
FF A minorAm G+G
(And to bask) in a darkness I do adore
FF C majorC
(But the low) is what I came for
FF A minorAm G+G
(And to bask) in a darkness I do adore
FF C majorC
(But the low) is what I came for
FF A minorAm G+G FF
(And to bask) in a darkness I do adore
C majorC
(But the low) But the low is what I came for
FF A minorAm G+G FF
(And to bask) But the low is what I came here for
C majorC
(But the low) But the low is what I came for
FF A minorAm G+G FF