Chords with lyrics
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THE COLD ACRE - Augie March
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Tabbed by: emery01
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Tuning: Standard
So, deceptively the intro/verse just sits on a 
B minorBm while the lead guitar plays a little lick that seems to
move between a B minorBm arpeggio and an 
A augmentedA major arpeggio. I'm almost certain that the whole band just sits on the B minorBm
while the lead does its thing.
However I decided it sounded better with one guitar in the verses to alternate between B minorBm and F#m.
You can either or come up with your own idea on what sounds best for you.
Lead intro:
e|----------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|7-7-------------7-7---------------------------------------------|
G+G|----7-7-----7-7-----7-7-----7-7-9-9-6-6-----6-6-9-9-6-6-----6-6-|
D MajorD|--------9-9-------------9-9-------------7-7-------------7-7-----|
A augmentedA|----------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|----------------------------------------------------------------|
INTRO:
B minorBm
B minorBm
There's a place I've been told
F# minorF#m
And when I grow old I may go there
B minorBm
I've been told that my family's bones
F# minorF#m
May lie under the snow there
D MajorD F# minorF#m
With my little bag, with my little dog
G+G
Who sleeps on my chest
A augmentedA
When he can't find a hole in a log
F# minorF#m G+G
When I go, my dog will know
To leave his old fellow and find a new pillow
A augmentedA
Far from the chill of the cold acre
*INTRO*
B minorBm
Now there's a Hillydale here and a Lilydale there
F# minorF#m B minorBm
Where there's joy in the living, voices that ring in the air
F# minorF#m D MajorD
I'd stay there but sooner or later I'd have to go
F# minorF#m G+G
Where I don't know but when a dog knows it's on him
A augmentedA F# minorF#m G+G
He doesn't ask why he just goes, when I go my bones will know
A augmentedA
To pick up and follow the wagon that rolls on the cold acre
CHORUS:
D MajorD F# minorF#m
My heart is a cold acre and my chest is a cold acre
G+G A augmentedA
I don't grow any good anymore though I've seeded my soul
With all kinds of love, that it aches so
*SOLO OVER VERSE*
This may be with an octave pedal or just playing octaves but it sounds fine without
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|15~-15/17-15-14-10-7-10-12--7-10-14--10-8-7--7-10-12--12-10-8-7-10--7-8/10-8-7-|
G+G|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B minorBm
Though I wake from them mouthing
F# minorF#m
They leave me not able to talk
B minorBm
All these dreams are not nightmares
F# minorF#m
But realms I've been choosing to walk
D MajorD F# minorF#m
With my little bag, with my little dog
G+G A augmentedA
Who rests on my stomach and barks at the oncoming fog
F# minorF#m G+G
O but when I go with my lot in tow
Like a vampire carry my piece in the earth
A augmentedA
To the place of my death to the plots of my birth
CHORUS:
D MajorD F# minorF#m
My heart is a cold acre, in my chest is a cold acre
G+G A augmentedA
I don't grow any good anymore though I've seeded my soul
D MajorD
With all kinds of love that don't grow in a cold acre
F# minorF#m
Nothing grows in a cold acre
G+G
I don't grow any good anymore from the bad
A augmentedA
But there's one that you have, one that you had
F# minorF#m G+G
O grow, grow, grow, grow, grow
A augmentedA
And plant me in the only place I know that's the cold acre
END WITH INTRO
cheers
