Leaving The City tab by Joanna Newsom

Intro

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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   x x 3 5 6 x
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


[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        F5F5
Hay and a clean stall
   Bb5Bb5    DmDm
And ivy on a garden wall
          F5F5
And a sign saying sold
      Bb5Bb5     DmDm
And an old coat for the bad cold

[Instrumental]
D5D5 C5C5 Bb5Bb5 C5C5 [x2]

[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
Towards what we are allowed

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

[Verse BB]
  D5D5   C5C5 Bb5Bb5
Beneath a pale sky
  D5D5   C5C5 Bb5Bb5
Beside the red barn
      D5D5  C5C5 Bb5Bb5
Below the white clouds
D5D5   C5C5 Bb5Bb5
 Is all we are allowed
  D5D5   C5C5 Bb5Bb5
Here, the light will seep
    D5D5 C5C5 Bb5Bb5
And the scythe will reap
    D5D5 C5C5 Bb5Bb5
And spirit will rend
   D5D5  C5C5 Bb5Bb5
In counting toward the end

[Instrumental]
DmDm C majorC Bb majorBb [x2]

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

[Verse BB]
   D5D5  C5C5 Bb5Bb5
In that high sun
 D5D5  C5C5 Bb5Bb5
 After our good run
    D5D5  C5C5 Bb5Bb5
When the spirit bends
      D5D5  C5C5 Bb5Bb5
Beneath knowing it must end
        D5D5  C5C5 Bb5Bb5
And that is all I want here
  D5D5  C5C5 Bb5Bb5
To draw my gaunt spirit to bow
   D5D5  C5C5 Bb5Bb5
Beneath what I am allowed
   D5D5  C5C5 Bb5Bb5
Beneath what I am allowed
     DmDm  C majorC Bb majorBb
Beneath what I am allowed

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