Leaving The City chords by Joanna Newsom

Chords with lyrics

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Chords
    E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB e
D5D5   x x 0 2 3 x
DmDm   x x 0 2 3 1
FF   1 3 3 2 1 1
F5F5   x x 3 5 6 x
G minorGm   3 5 5 3 3 3
Bb5Bb5  x x x 3 6 6
C5C5   x 3 5 5 x x
C majorC   x 3 2 0 1 0
Bb majorBb   x 1 3 3 3 1
A5A5   x 0 2 2 x x
A minorAm   x 0 2 2 1 0

[Intro - this tab]
  D5D5        DmDm
e|-----------------|-----3-1---0---1-----|-5-6-5-3-2---6-8-6-5-------------|
BB|-----------------|-3-------------------|---------------------6-5h6p5---3-|
G+G|---2---2---2---2-|---------------------|---------------------------------|
D MajorD|-0---0---0---0---|---------------------|---------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-----------------|---------------------|---------------------------------|
E MajorE|-----------------|---------------------|---------------------------------|

[Verse A augmentedA]
DmDm        FF
Hay and a clean stall
  G minorGm  Bb5Bb5 A5A5  DmDm
And iv - y on a garden wall
          F5F5
And a sign saying sold
    G minorGm Bb5Bb5 A5A5    DmDm
And an old coat for the bad cold

[Instrumental]
DmDm A minorAm DmDm D5D5
FF Bb majorBb G minorGm
DmDm

[Verse BB]
D5D5 C5C5      Bb5Bb5
  I believe in you
D5D5 C5C5      Bb5Bb5
Do you believe in me?
D5D5 C5C5      Bb5Bb5
What do you want to do?
D5D5 C5C5      Bb5Bb5
Are we leaving the city?

D5D5 C5C5      Bb5Bb5
On the black road
D5D5 C5C5      Bb5Bb5
Through the gold fields
D5D5 C5C5      Bb5Bb5
While the fiends are plowed
D5D5 C5C5      Bb5Bb5  DmDm
Towards what we are allowed

[Verse C majorC]
      D5D5     F5F5
The bridle bends in idle hands
    Bb5Bb5          D5D5
And slows your canter to a trot
   F5F5      Bb5Bb5
We mean to stop in increments
      D5D5     F5F5    Bb5Bb5
But can’t commit, we post and sit in impotence
     D5D5       F5F5    Bb5Bb5
The harder the hit, the deeper the dent
      D5D5     F5F5   Bb5Bb5
We seek our name, we seek out fame
        D5D5  F5F5    Bb5Bb5
In our credentials, paned in glass
   D5D5     F5F5   Bb5Bb5
Trying to master incidentals
     D5D5         F5F5   Bb5Bb5
Bleach a collar, leech a dollar from our cents
    D5D5     F5F5   Bb5Bb5
The longer you live, the higher the rent

[Verse BB]
  D5D5   F5F5 Bb5Bb5
Beneath a pale sky
  D5D5   F5F5 Bb5Bb5
Beside the red barn
      D5D5  F5F5 Bb5Bb5
Below the white clouds
D5D5   F5F5 Bb5Bb5
 Is all we are allowed
  D5D5   F5F5 Bb5Bb5
Here, the light will seep
    D5D5 F5F5 Bb5Bb5
And the scythe will reap
    D5D5 F5F5 Bb5Bb5
And spirit will rend
   D5D5  F5F5 Bb5Bb5
In counting toward the end

[Verse C majorC]
   D5D5      F5F5
In December of that year
  Bb5Bb5            D5D5
The word came down that she was here
  F5F5
The days were shorter
 Bb5Bb5   D5D5     F5F5
I was sure if she came round
      Bb5Bb5
I’d hold my ground
   D5D5      F5F5 Bb5Bb5
I can do what they alluded to
         D5D5
A augmentedA change that came to pass
   F5F5     Bb5Bb5
And spring did range, weeping grass
    D5D5   F5F5
And sleepless broke
  Bb5Bb5          D5D5
Itself upon my winter glass
  F5F5        Bb5Bb5
And I could barely breathe for seeing
D5D5  F5F5       Bb5Bb5
All the splintered light that leaked
           D5D5     F5F5
A augmentedA fish is fleeting, launched in flight
  D5D5              D5D5
Unstaunched daylight, brightly bleeding
    F5F5        Bb5Bb5
Bleached the night with dawn deleting

[Verse BB]
   D5D5  F5F5 Bb5Bb5
In that high sun
 D5D5  F5F5 Bb5Bb5
 After our good run
    D5D5  F5F5 Bb5Bb5
When the spirit bends
      D5D5  F5F5 Bb5Bb5
Beneath knowing it must end
        D5D5  F5F5 Bb5Bb5
And that is all I want here
  D5D5  F5F5 Bb5Bb5
To draw my gaunt spirit to bow
   D5D5  F5F5 Bb5Bb5
Beneath what I am allowed
   D5D5  F5F5 Bb5Bb5
Beneath what I am allowed
     DmDm  FF Bb majorBb
Beneath what I am allowed

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