Sapokanikan chords by Joanna Newsom

(Verse 1)

    C        D  F
The cause is Ozymandian

    C      D  F
The map of Sapokanikan

   C          G
Is sanded and bevelled

    Bb            F
The land lorn and levelled

   Am      D#         Dm       D#
By some unrecorded and powerful hand

(Verse 2)

      C      D       F
Which plays along the monument

    C      D    F
And drums upon a plastic bag

    C             G       Bb       F
The brave-men-and-women-so-dear-to-God-

    Am      D#          Dm   D#
And-famous-to-all-of-the-ages rag



(Chorus)

    Bb Gm    D#   Bb
Sang: Do you love me?

Bb Gm     D# Bb
Will you remember?

   Bb   Gm    D#    Bb
The snow falls above me

   Bb Gm    D# Bb
The renderer renders:

    F        D#    Gm
The event is in the hand of God



(Verse 3)

  C       D        F
Beneath a patch of grass, her

C         D         F
Bones the old Dutch master hid

      C         G
While elsewhere Tobias

       Bb     F
And the angel disguise

        Am          D#         Dm         D#
What the scholars surmise was a mother and kid



(Verse 4)

C             D     F
Interred with other daughters

   C       D     F
In dirt in other potters' fields

C           G
Above them, parades

        Bb          F
Mark the passing of days

       Am               D#                 Dm         D#
Through parks where pale colonnades arch in marble and steel



(Chorus)

Bb                     Gm                      D#  Bb
Where all of the twenty-thousand attending your footfall

       Bb               Gm                  D#           Bb
And the causes they died for are lost in the idling bird calls

       Bb                    Gm
And the records they left are cryptic at best

      D#     Bb
Lost in obsolescence

   Bb                       Gm
The text will not yield, nor x-ray reveal

    D#         Bb
With any fluorescence

          F          D#       Gm       G#
Where the hand of the master begins and ends



 Bb      Gm                     D#    Bb
I fell, I tried to do well but I won't be

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

 Bb       Gm           D# Bb
I call and call for the doctor

       Bb     Gm                       D#     Bb
But the snow swallows me whole with ol' Florry Walker

        F          D#      Gm
And the event lives only in print



(Outro)

  C#
He said:

     Bb
"It's alright"

    C
And "It's all over now"

   Am          Dm
And boarded the plane

    Bb
His belt unfastened

    C                    Am      Dm
The boy was known to show unusual daring

              Bb
And, called a "boy"

    C                     Am      Dm
This alderman, confounding Tammany Hall

  Bb           C                     Am               Dm
In whose employ King Tamanend himself preceeded John?s fall

        Bb
So we all raise a standard

  C                         Am       Dm
To which the wise and honest soul may repair

        Bb
To which a hunter

              C              Am       Dm
A hundred years from now, may look and despair

   Bb
And see with wonder

   C                        Am          Dm
The tributes we have left to rust in the parks

           Bb
Swearing that our hair stood on end

      C           Am        Dm
To see John Purroy Mitchel depart

               Bb   C          Am         Dm
For the Western front where our work might count

Bb     C Am Dm
O mercy! O God!

  Bb                C        Am         Dm
Go out, await the hunter to decipher the stone

Bb              C        Am  Dm Bb C Am Dm Bb C Am Dm
And what lies under the city is gone



 Bb       C Am   Dm
Look and despair

 Bb       C Am   Dm
Look and despair


Bb C Am Dm (Fade out)