Rambling Man chords by Laura Marling

• Tuning: Open D (D A D F# A D)

Tuning: Open D (D A D F# A D)

D is sometimes played on all open strings, but also sometimes like this:

D  ----4---
A  ----0---
F# ----3---
D  ----0---
A  ----0---
D  ----0---

G is also played in two different ways, most of the time (in the verses and all the quick changes) like this:

D  ----0---
A  ----0---
F# ----1---
D  ----0---
A  ----2---
D  ----0---

But in the chorus it's like this

D  ----5---
A  ----0---
F# ----5---
D  ----0---
A  ----0---
D  ----0---

Dsus4 is like this

D  ----3---
A  ----0---
F# ----1---
D  ----0---
A  ----0---
D  ----0---

A is played like this

D  ----0---
A  ----0---
F# ----3---
D  ----0---
A  ----4---
D  ----0---

And for the D/F# in the bridge, just play the F# on the 6st string, all the other strings open

You can play the same chords in standard tuning, for a more open sound you can then play the Dsus4 like this

E  ----0---
B  ----3---
G  ----0---
D  ----0---
A  ----0---
E  ----X---

Intro:
D  Dsus4  D  G D G D G D

Verse 1:
D   Dsus4       D G D
Oh naïve little me
D            Dsus4           D  G D
Asking what things you have seen
            D        G          D  G D
And you're vulnerable in your head
          A               G                  D  G D
You'll scream and you'll wail 'till you're dead

Verse 2:
  D        Dsus4      D  G D
Creatures veiled by night
  D       Dsus4                D  G D
Following things that aren't right
             D              G          D  G D
And they're tired and they need to be led
             A         G                  D  G D
But you'll scream and wail 'till you're dead

Chorus:
     D    Dsus4   G       D
But give me to a rambling man
       D          Dsus4                 D  G D  G D G D
Let it always be known that I was who I am

Verse 3:
 D     Dsus4         D  G D
Beaten battered and cold
     D           Dsus4             D  G D
My children will live just to grow old
         D   G          D  G D
But if I sit here and weep
         A                 G             D  G D
I'll be blown over by the slightest of breeze

Verse 4:
         D   Dsus4       D  G D
And the weak need to be led
         D        Dsus4              D  G D
And the tender are carried to their bed
            D         G      D  G D
And it's a pale and cold affair
       D          Dsus4                  D  G D
And I'll be dammed if I'll be found there

Chorus:
     D    Dsus4   G       D
But give me to a rambling man
       D         Dsus4                 D  G D  G D G D G D G D G D G D
Let it always be known that I was who I am

Bridge:
     D/F#                                  D
It's funny that the first chords that you come to
         D/F#                         D
Are the minor notes that come to serenade you
            D/F#                     D    D/F#            D
And it's hard to accept yourself as someone, you don't desire
    G                        D  G D G D G D
As someone you don't want to be

Chorus:
    D    Dsus4   G       D
Oh give me to a rambling man
      D          Dsus4                  D  G D
Let it always be known that I was who I am
    D     Dsus4    G       D
Oh give me to the rambling man
       D          Dsus4                 D  G D  G D G D G D G D G D G D
Let it always be known that I was who I am