Firefly tab by TV Soundtracks 📺

Ballad of Serenity
--Theme song of the cancelled television series Firefly

--Written by Joss Whedon
--Recorded by Sonny Rhodes

--Chorded/Tabbed by Jeff Spies (jspies at nd dot edu)
----Thanks to Tim B. for a chord correction.

Capo 3 (tabs and chords relative to capo)

Note: Rhodes plays this in an open tuning; I don't.

Intro:

e|--------------------------------
b|-----------------------------2--
g|-----------------------------2--
D|-----------------------------2--
A|---------0----3-p-0-------0-----
E|--0-h-3--------------3----------

(bend that last G a half step)

Verses:

A G
Take my love, take my land
D A E
Take me where I cannot stand
C G
I don't care, I'm still free
D A E
You can't take the sky from me
A G
Take me out to the black
D A E
Tell them I ain't coming back
C G
Burn the land and boil the sea
D A E
You can't take the sky from me

Instrumental:

e|----------------0---
b|----------------1---
g|----------------0---
D|----------------2---
A|---------0-h-2--3---
E|--0-h-3-------------

(finger-style solo on these chords--or just strum)
C G
(then something like this)
e|---------------
b|--3--5--7--8---
g|---------------
D|--4--5--7------
A|--5--7--9--11--
E|---------------

Final Verse:

A G
There's no place I can be
D A E
Since I found Serenity
C D
But you can't take the sky from me

Outro:

C A
(bend low C when you hit the C chord,
pull off to the open A and strum A chord as you pull off)