Elephant In The Dock chords by MewithoutYou

Chords with lyrics

Elephant in the Dock
Ten Stories
meWithoutYou

Tabbed by Matt Giesmann

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Notes:
-Tough vocal phrasing
-For playing acoustically, I fingerpick between the recording and a full strum
-For precise picking, which doesn't exactly follow these chords, see the 'tab' for this song
-In the chorus, slide is optional. I slide 3 half steps up to DmDm instead of the octave slide

  Verses      Choruses
  F# minorF#m A augmentedA  E...  B minorBm A augmentedA  F# minorF#m B minorBm
|---2---/5---\0---|---2---0---2---2-/-14---|
|---2---/5---\0---|---3---2---2---3-/-15---|
|---2---/6---\1---|---4---2---2---4-/-16---|
|---4---/7---\2---|---4---2---4---4-/-16---|
|---4---/7---\2---|---2---0---4---2-/-14---|
|---2---/5---\0---|-----------2------------|
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[Intro]
F# minorF#m A augmentedA E MajorE F# minorF#m
F#m A augmentedA E MajorE E

[Narrator:]
F# minorF#m   A augmentedA       E MajorE      F# minorF#m
Pillary stocks at the gallows tree dock
  F# minorF#m     A augmentedA        E MajorE         E MajorE
the crowd grew impatient as the clouds threatened rain
F# minorF#m    A augmentedA       E MajorE      F# minorF#m
Elephant arrived at the Constable's side,
     F# minorF#m       A augmentedA         E MajorE     E MajorE
with her trunk locked in shackles, and her ankles in chains

[Bailiff:]
   F# minorF#m    A augmentedA     E MajorE    F# minorF#m
"All rise, all rise, his Honor presides,"
  F# minorF#m      A augmentedA      E MajorE       E MajorE
the Judge took the bench to the village brass cavalcade,
F# minorF#m    A augmentedA         E MajorE
Elephant refused to swear the oath, said
[Elephant:]
       F# minorF#m      F# minorF#m
"I don't know anything about truth,
      A augmentedA        E MajorE
but I know falsehood when I see it,
    E MajorE           F# minorF#m        A augmentedA E MajorE F# minorF#m F#m A augmentedA E MajorE E
and it looks like this whole world you've made"

F# minorF#m     A augmentedA        E MajorE     F# minorF#m
Good of our chaplain to sail Kalispell Bay
    F# minorF#m     A augmentedA        E MajorE      E MajorE
And now down on his marrows for this old fool to pray,
      F# minorF#m    A augmentedA      E MajorE      F# minorF#m
"Lord, for sixty-some years I've surrendered my love,
  F# minorF#m    A augmentedA           E MajorE         E MajorE
to emblems of kindness, and not the kindness they were emblems of,
F# minorF#m     A augmentedA        E MajorE        F# minorF#m
Trammels and rings, with the strength of old strings,
     F# minorF#m     A augmentedA       E MajorE      E MajorE
and some hobble skirt spring, by the old problem caught,
     F# minorF#m     A augmentedA       E MajorE         F# minorF#m
Children, sometimes I think all our thoughts are just things,
     F# minorF#m       A augmentedA        E MajorE
and then sometimes think things are just thoughts,"
    E MajorE
and the rabble rang

[Crowd:]
B minorBm            A augmentedA            F# minorF#m B minorBm
"Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang!
B minorBm           A augmentedA            F# minorF#m B minorBm
Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang!"

[Elephant:]
  F# minorF#m      A augmentedA      E MajorE    F# minorF#m
"A thirteen coil knot for the samovar pot!
     F# minorF#m     A augmentedA     E MajorE      E MajorE
Scottish Oatcakes in haversacks each to its grave
     F# minorF#m    A augmentedA     E MajorE     F# minorF#m
This mock trial can no more determine my lot,
     F# minorF#m     A augmentedA      E MajorE
than can driftwood determine the ocean's waves,
E MajorE       F# minorF#m      A augmentedA        E MajorE      F# minorF#m
Brandish your ropes and your boards, and your basket-hilt swords,
     F# minorF#m     A augmentedA       E MajorE      E MajorE
but what is there can punish like a conscience ignored?
    F# minorF#m   A augmentedA       E MajorE
Yes, my body did just as you implied,
      F# minorF#m       F# minorF#m   A augmentedA          E MajorE
while some ghost we'll call 'I' idly watched through its eyes,"
    E MajorE
and the jury sang,

B minorBm           A augmentedA            F# minorF#m B minorBm
"Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang!
B minorBm           A augmentedA            F# minorF#m B minorBm
Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang!
B minorBm           A augmentedA            F# minorF#m B minorBm
Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang!
B minorBm           A augmentedA            F# minorF#m B minorBm
Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang!"

[Elephant:]
B minorBm            F# minorF#m
  I feel it stealing now
B minorBm            F# minorF#m
  I feel it stealing now
B minorBm            F# minorF#m
  I feel it stealing now
B minorBm