Anecdotes chords by Joanna Newsom

Chords with lyrics

Probably best if you listen to the song for timings as its quite difficult at times.

 AbAb      Eb MajorEb     DbDb
 Sending the first scouts over
 AbAb       Eb MajorEb    DbDb
 Back from the place beyond the dawn:
 AbAb        Eb MajorEb  DbDb
 Horse, bear your broken soldier
 AbAb     Eb MajorEb   DbDb
 Eyes frozen wide at what went on
   AbAb      Eb MajorEb   DbDb
 And Time, in our camp, is moving
AbAb     Eb MajorEb  DbDb
 As you’d anticipate it to
   AbAb      Eb MajorEb  DbDb
 But what is this sample proving?
 AbAb    Eb MajorEb   Bb majorBb        DbDb
 Anecdotes cannot say what Time may do

 DbDb F minorFm Eb MajorEb AbAb Eb MajorEb DbDb C majorC G+G A minorAm G+G


 C majorC     Bb majorBb   AbAb  G+G
 I kid with Rufus Night-jar
     F minorFm      AbAb
 When our men are all asleep:
   C majorC   Bb majorBb    AbAb    G+G
 It ain’t about how rare you are
     F minorFm       AbAb
 But how hard you are to see
Eb MajorEb       AbAb DbDb
 Take, you and me—
 FF          C majorC
 “When are you from?” said he
    A minorAm       G+G
 In our blind of winter leaves


    F# minorF#m        G+G
 As we sighted out their fliers
    F# minorF#m       G+G
 In the greyscale of the night
   F# minorF#m      G+G
 And fumbled on the bare ground
  F# minorF#m     G+G
 To bury round landmines
      A augmentedA F#F# B minorBm C majorC        D MajorD  Bb majorBb
 While the deeeeeew lay down and dried

 D MajorD Bb majorBb D MajorD Bb majorBb C majorC


 C majorC     Bb majorBb   AbAb G+G
 We signal Private Poorwill
   F minorFm        AbAb
 When morning starts to loom:
 C majorC    Bb majorBb    AbAb   G+G
 “Pull up from your dive!” till,
  F minorFm        AbAb      Eb MajorEb     AbAb  DbDb
 We hear the telltale boom too soon, hotdogging loon,
 FF         C majorC     A minorAm    G+G
 caught there Like a shard of mirror in the moon!


   F# minorF#m          G+G
 Now they’ve stopped giving orders
    F# minorF#m    G+G
 But I follow anyway
 F# minorF#m       G+G
 Laying in our state of torpor
 F# minorF#m       G+G
 Waiting out the day
      A augmentedA F#F# B minorBm C majorC    D MajorD  Bb majorBb
 While the deeeeeew burns away


 D MajorD Bb majorBb D MajorD Bb majorBb AbAb G+G


 F minorFm    Eb MajorEb    Bb majorBb   DbDb
 Rushing, tearing, speeding home:
 F minorFm     Eb MajorEb      Bb majorBb   DbDb
 Bound to a wheel that is not my own
    F minorFm     Eb MajorEb  Bb majorBb    DbDb
 Where round every bend I long to see
 F minorFm    Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb  DbDb
 Temporal infidelity


 F minorFm      Eb MajorEb     Bb majorBb      DbDb
 All along the road, the lights stream by
 F minorFm    Eb MajorEb      Bb majorBb     DbDb
 I want to go where the dew won’t dry
 F minorFm    Eb MajorEb      Bb majorBb     DbDb
 I want to go where the light won’t bend—
 F minorFm    Eb MajorEb    Bb majorBb   DbDb
 Far as the eye may reach—nor end


   F minorFm Eb MajorEb    Bb majorBb      DbDb
 But, inasmuch as that light is loaned
   F minorFm Eb MajorEb   Bb majorBb       DbDb
 And, insofar as we’ve borrowed bones
 F minorFm     Eb MajorEb    Bb majorBb  DbDb
 Must every debt now be repaid
   F minorFm      Eb MajorEb   Bb majorBb      DbDb
 In star-spotted, sickle-winged night raids
     F minorFm     Eb MajorEb       Bb majorBb      DbDb
 While we sing to the garden, and we sing to the stars
F minorFm         Eb MajorEb      Bb majorBb    DbDb
 And we sing in the meantime wherever you are?


    F minorFm      Eb MajorEb    Bb majorBb       DbDb
 In the folds and the branches somewhere out there
F minorFm      Eb MajorEb     Bb majorBb   DbDb
 I was only just born into open air
   F minorFm      Eb MajorEb    Bb majorBb       DbDb
 Now hush, little babe, you don’t want to be
 F minorFm     Eb MajorEb     Bb majorBb       DbDb
 Down in the trenches remembering with me


    AbAb      Eb MajorEb  DbDb
 Where you will not mark my leaving
AbAb         Eb MajorEb      DbDb
 And you will not hear my parting song
 AbAb      Eb MajorEb   DbDb
 Nor is there cause for grieving
 AbAb      Eb MajorEb    Bb majorBb
 Nor is there cause for carrying on
   AbAb       Eb MajorEb   DbDb
 And daughter, when you are able
 AbAb      Eb MajorEb      DbDb
 Come down and join! The kettle’s on
      AbAb    Eb MajorEb    DbDb
 And your family’s round the table
AbAb      Eb MajorEb    Bb majorBb       DbDb
 Will you come down, before the sun is gone?


 DbDb F minorFm Eb MajorEb AbAb Eb MajorEb DbDb C majorC G+G A minorAm G+G

 F# minorF#m G+G (x4)

 A augmentedA F#F# B minorBm C majorC

 D MajorD Bb majorBb D MajorD Bb majorBb D MajorD Bb majorBb