Sapokanikan chords by Joanna Newsom

Chords with lyrics

(Verse 1)

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The cause is Ozymandian

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The map of Sapokanikan

  C majorC     G+G
Is sanded and bevelled

  Bb majorBb      FF
The land lorn and levelled

  A minorAm   D#D#     DmDm    D#D#
By some unrecorded and powerful hand

(Verse 2)

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Which plays along the monument

  C majorC   D MajorD  FF
And drums upon a plastic bag

  C majorC       G+G    Bb majorBb    FF
The brave-men-and-women-so-dear-to-God-

  A minorAm   D#D#     DmDm  D#D#
And-famous-to-all-of-the-ages rag


(Chorus)

  Bb majorBb G minorGm  D#D#  Bb majorBb
Sang: Do you love me?

Bb majorBb G minorGm   D#D# Bb majorBb
Will you remember?

  Bb majorBb  G minorGm  D#D#  Bb majorBb
The snow falls above me

  Bb majorBb G minorGm  D#D# Bb majorBb
The renderer renders:

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The event is in the hand of God

(Verse 3)

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Beneath a patch of grass, her

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Bones the old Dutch master hid

   C majorC     G+G
While elsewhere Tobias

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And the angel disguise

    A minorAm     D#D#     DmDm     D#D#
What the scholars surmise was a mother and kid


(Verse 4)

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Interred with other daughters

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In dirt in other potters' fields

C majorC      G+G
Above them, parades

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Mark the passing of days

    A minorAm        D#D#         DmDm     D#D#
Through parks where pale colonnades arch in marble and steel


(Chorus)

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Where all of the twenty-thousand attending your footfall

    Bb majorBb        G minorGm         D#D#      Bb majorBb
And the causes they died for are lost in the idling bird calls

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And the records they left are cryptic at best

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Lost in obsolescence

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The text will not yield, nor x-ray reveal

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With any fluorescence

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Where the hand of the master begins and ends


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I fell, I tried to do well but I won't be

    Bb majorBb    G minorGm          D#D#       Bb majorBb
Will you tell the one that I love to remember and hold me

 Bb majorBb    G minorGm      D#D# Bb majorBb
I call and call for the doctor

    Bb majorBb   G minorGm            D#D#   Bb majorBb
But the snow swallows me whole with ol' Florry Walker

    FF     D#D#   G minorGm
And the event lives only in print


(Outro)

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He said:

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"It's alright"

  C majorC
And "It's all over now"

  A minorAm     DmDm
And boarded the plane

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His belt unfastened

  C majorC          A minorAm   DmDm
The boy was known to show unusual daring

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And, called a "boy"

  C majorC           A minorAm   DmDm
This alderman, confounding Tammany Hall

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In whose employ King Tamanend himself preceeded John?s fall

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So we all raise a standard

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To which the wise and honest soul may repair

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To which a hunter

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A augmentedA hundred years from now, may look and despair

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And see with wonder

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The tributes we have left to rust in the parks

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Swearing that our hair stood on end

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To see John Purroy Mitchel depart

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For the Western front where our work might count

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O mercy! O God!

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Go out, await the hunter to decipher the stone

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And what lies under the city is gone


 Bb majorBb    C majorC A minorAm  DmDm
Look and despair

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Look and despair


Bb majorBb C majorC A minorAm DmDm (Fade out)