Monkey Bear Ukulele chords by Joanna Newsom
Guitar chords with lyrics
Verse:
Dm C Bb
down in the green hay
D C G
where monkey and bear usually lay
Dm Bb Dm
they woke from a stable-boy's cry
Dm C Bb
he said; someone come quick!
D C G
the horses got loose, got grass-sick!
Dm Eb Dm
they'll founder! fain, they'll die
Gm A
What is now known by the sorrel and the roan?
Em A
By the chestnut, and the bay, and the gelding grey?
Dm A G
It is: stay by the gate you are given
Dm A Bb
And remain in your place, for your season
F C F
And had the overfed dead but listened
Dm A G
To that high-fence, horse-sense, wisdom
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Dm C Bb D
"did you hear that, Bear " said monkey
C G
we'll get out of here, fair and square
Dm Bb Dm
they've left the gate open wide!
Verse Contd.:
Dm
so;
G
my bride
Dm G
here is my hand, where is your paw?
Dm G
try and understand my plan, Ursala
Dm G
my heart is a furnace
Dm G
full of love that's just, and earnest
Dm G
now; you know that we must unlearn this
Dm G
allegiance to a life of service
Dm G
and no longer answer to that heartless
Dm G
hay-monger, nor be his accomplice
Dm G
(that charlatan, with artless hustling!)
Dm G
but; Ursala, we've got to eat something
Dm G
and earn our keep, while still within
Dm G
the borders of the land that man has girded
Dm G
(all double-bolted and tightfisted!)
Dm G
until we reach the open country
Dm G
a-steeped in milk and honey
Dm G
will you keep your fancy clothes on, for me?
Dm G
can you bear a little longer to wear that leash?
Dm G
my love, I swear by the air I breathe:
Dm F Bb Dm
sooner or later, you'll bare your teeth
Chorus:
Dm G
but for now, just dance, darling
Dm A
c'mon, will you dance, my darling?
Dm F
darling, there's a place for us
Bb G
can we go, before I turn to dust?
Dm F Bb Dm
oh my darling, there's a place for us
Dm G
oh darling
Dm A
c'mon will you dance, my darling?
Dm F
oh, the hills are groaning with excess
Bb G
like a table ceaselessly being set
Dm F Bb Dm
oh my darling, we will get there yet
Verse:
Dm C Bb
they trooped past the guards,
D C G
past the coops, and the fields, and the farmyards
Dm Bb Dm
all night, till finally:
Dm C Bb
the space they gained grew
D C G
much farther than the stone that bear threw
Dm Eb Dm
to mark where they'd stop for tea
Gm A
But walk a little faster and don't look backwards
Em A
Your feast is to the East, which lies a little past the pasture
Dm A G
When the blackbirds hear tea whistling, they rise and clap
Dm A Bb
And their applause caws the kettle black
F C F
And we won't have none of that!
Dm A G
Move along, Bear; there, there; that's that
Dm C Bb
(though cast in plaster
D C G
our Ursala's heart beat faster
Dm Eb Dm
than monkey's ever will)
Verse Contd.:
Dm G
but still;
Dm G
they have got to pay the bills
Dm G
hadn't they?
Dm G
that is what the monkey'd say
Dm G Dm
so, with the courage of a clown, or a cur
G Dm
or a kite, jerking tight at its tether
G Dm
in her dun-brown gown of fur
G Dm
and her jerkin of swan's down and leather
G Dm
Bear would sway on her hind legs;
G Dm
the organ would grind dregs of song, for the pleasure
G
of the children, who'd shriek
Dm
throwing coins at her feet
G Dm
then recoiling in terror
Chorus:
G
sing, dance, darling
Dm A
c'mon, will you dance, my darling?
Dm F
oh darling, there's a place for us
Bb G
can we go, before I turn to dust?
Dm F Bb Dm
oh my darling, there's a place for us
Dm G
oh darling
Dm A
c'mon, will you dance, my darling?
Dm F
you keep your eyes fixed on the highest hill
Bb G
where you'll ever-after eat your fill
Dm F Bb G
oh my darling, dear, mine
Dm
if you dance
F Bb Dm
dance, darling, and i love you still
Verse:
Dm
deep in the night
G
shone a weak and miserly light
where the monkey shouldered his lamp
someone had told him
the bear had been wandering
a fair piece away from where they were camped
someone had told him
the bear'd been sneaking away
to the seaside caverns, to bathe
and the thought troubled the monkey
for he was afraid of spelunking down in those caves
also afraid what the village people would say
if they saw the bear in that state;
lolling and splashing obscenely
well, it seemed irrational, really; washing that face
washing that matted and flea-bit pelt
in some sea-spit-shine, old kelp dripping with brine
but monkey just laughed, and he muttered;
when she comes back, Ursala will be bursting with pride
'til I jump up!
saying: you've been rolling in muck!
saying: you smell of garbage and grime!
but far out
far out
by now
by now
far out, by now, Bear ploughed
'cause she would not drown:
first the outside-legs of the bear
up and fell down, in the water, like knobby garters
then the outside-arms of the bear
fell off, as easy as if sloughed from boiled tomatoes
low'red in a genteel curtsy
bear shed the mantle of her diluvian shoulders;
and, with a sigh, she allowed the burden of belly
to drop like an apronfull of boulders
if you could hold up her threadbare coat to the light
where it's worn translucent in places
you'd see spots where almost every night of the year
Bear had been mending suspending that baseness
now her coat drags through the water
bagging, with a life's-worth of hunger, limitless minnows
in the magnetic embrace
balletic and glacial of Bear's insatiable shadow
left there!
left there!
when Bear left Bear
left there!
left there!
when Bear stepped clear of Bear
Outro:
Dm C Bb
D C G
Dm Eb D
Dm F Bb Dm
(sooner or later, you'll bare your teeth ) Published:
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