Autumn chords by Joanna Newsom

Chords with lyrics

Verse:
A minorAm   C majorC      G+G   FF
Driven through by her own sword,
A minorAm    C majorC     G+G   FF
summer died last night, alone.
A minorAm    C majorC      G+G   FF
Even the ghosts huddled up for warmth.
A minorAm     C majorC    G+G    FF
Autumn has come to my hometown.


Verse:
A minorAm    C majorC    G+G   FF
Friendly voices, dead and gone,
A minorAm     C majorC     G+G    FF
 singing, Star of the country down...
 A minorAm    C majorC      G+G      FF
(even the ghosts help raise the barn,
 A minorAm   C majorC    G+G   FF
here, now, in my hometown)

Chorus:

FF    Eb MajorEb   D MajorD

  D MajorD        C majorC
— when, out of the massing
     Bb majorBb   G+G     Bb majorBb  C majorC  D MajorD
that bodes and bides, in the cold west,
D MajorD    C majorC    Bb majorBb
flew a waxwing, who froze
   G+G    Bb majorBb C majorC  D MajorD
and died against my breast!
 D MajorD         C majorC
And all the while, rain,
       Bb majorBb   G+G
like a weed in the tide,
 Bb majorBb  C majorC  D MajorD
swans and lists, down
   C majorC      Bb majorBb   G+G
on the gossiping lawns,
  Bb majorBb  C majorC  D MajorD
saying tsk tsk tsk.


Verse:

A minorAm     C majorC        G+G     FF
I may have changed. It's hard to gauge.
A minorAm     C majorC      G+G    FF
Time won't account for how I've aged.
A minorAm    C majorC      G+G    FF
Would I could tie your lying tongue,
   A minorAm    C majorC    G+G     FF
who says that leaving keeps you young.
A minorAm   C majorC  G+G   FF
And I have got no control
A minorAm    C majorC    G+G   FF
over my heart, over my mind.
A minorAm   C majorC     G+G     FF
Over the hills, the rainclouds roll.
A minorAm   C majorC     G+G    FF
I'll winter here, wait for a sign

Chorus:

FF   D#D#  D MajorD

D MajorD
to cast myself
  C majorC    Bb majorBb
out, over the water,
  G+G    Bb majorBb C majorC   D MajorD
riven like a wishbone.
D MajorD
You'd hardly guess
 D MajorD    C majorC         Bb majorBb
I was my own mother's daughter;
    G+G      Bb majorBb  C majorC  D MajorD
I ain't naturally given to roam.
D MajorD            C majorC
And I lay low, when I return, and I move
 Bb majorBb    G+G
like a gurney
   Bb majorBb   C majorC   D MajorD
whose wheels are squeaking,
 D MajorD         C majorC
alone, here in my home,
   Bb majorBb
and I laugh,
    G+G
when you speak of my
Bb majorBb  C majorC   D MajorD
pleasure-seeking


Bridge:

 Fmaj7Fmaj7
     Eb MajorEb C majorC Bb majorBb FF G+G
among the tall pines,
D MajorD     C majorC Bb majorBb G+G Bb majorBb C majorC D MajorD
along the lay-lines.
Fmaj7Fmaj7      Eb MajorEb C majorC Bb majorBb FF G+G
Here, where the loon keens.
D MajorD        C majorC Bb majorBb G+G Bb majorBb C majorC D MajorD
There, where the moon leans.
Fmaj7Fmaj7 Eb MajorEb   C majorC   Bb majorBb    FF   G+G
There where I know my violent love lays down,

D MajorD   C majorC   Bb majorBb   G+G   Bb majorBb C majorC  D MajorD
in a row of silent, dove-gray days.
      C majorC   Bb majorBb G+G  Bb majorBb  C majorC  D MajorD
Here, in a row of silent, dove-gray days.

Verse:

A minorAm    C majorC     G+G   FF
Wherever I go, I am snowbound
  A minorAm     C majorC     G+G    FF
by thoughts of him whom I would sun.
 A minorAm     C majorC   G+G   FF
I loved them all, one by one.
A minorAm     C majorC     G+G   FF
Cannot gain ground, cannot outrun;
A minorAm    C majorC G+G  FF
but time marches along.
A minorAm     C majorC   G+G    FF
You can't always stick around.
A minorAm      C majorC    G+G    FF
But, when the final count is done,
 A minorAm  G+G   FF  E minorEm
I will be in my hometown.
    Bb majorBb  G+G     C majorC
I will be in my hometown.


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