Elephant In The Dock chords by MewithoutYou

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 Dm instead of the octave slide

  Verses      Choruses
  F#m A  E...  Bm A  F#m Bm
|---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#m A E F#m
F#m A E E

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

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

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

[Crowd:]
Bm            A            F#m Bm
"Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang!
Bm           A            F#m Bm
Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang!"

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

Bm           A            F#m Bm
"Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang!
Bm           A            F#m Bm
Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang!
Bm           A            F#m Bm
Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang!
Bm           A            F#m Bm
Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang!"

[Elephant:]
Bm            F#m
  I feel it stealing now
Bm            F#m
  I feel it stealing now
Bm            F#m
  I feel it stealing now
Bm