September chords by The Shins

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               September - Shins
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Tabbed by: Robert McMillan
Email: mcmillan_ra (at) hotmail.com

Tuning: Standard


Riff 1

e|------------------|
B|-2--2-----0-------|
G|-2-----2-----2----|
D|-2--------------4-|
A|-0----------------|
E|------------------|

Riff 2

e|---------------|
B|---------------|
G|---------------|
D|---------------|
A|--0--2--4------|
E|---------------|


Verse
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A     C        A
Into this strange elastic world
     C        A
Pont us kindly gave up a pearl
   D        G
His eternal stone and mud
           D  D7 A
But ain't she lovely bone and blood

      C   A
Born of the sea
      Em  G     A
A thousand miles away from me
      D
A court of angels
       G
Wards of the sun

A future forming
 D   D7  A
A curse undone


Chorus
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 Riff 1

F#m    A       F#m        A
Under our softly burning lamp she takes her time

 Riff 1

F#m   A       E
Telling stories of our possible lives
  G                  E  A
And love is the ink in the well when her body writes

 Riff 2

D     A          D
I've been selfish and full of pride
       A             D
And she knows deep down there's a little child
        A         F#m
But I've got a good side to me as well
         E         D         Dsus4 D
And it's that she loves in spite of everything else

Break
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A C A Em G

Verse
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A       C            A
A song in the tree has distracted her mind
       C          A
Some other curious form of life
       D        G
Has made it's presence to her known
            D  D7  A
And she coos so gently soft and low

      C          A
Her shining face in a million reflections
    Em       G     A
in tiny raindrops that fall in a veil
     D          G
Over our city like notes from above
            D  D7  A
It overwhelms me! just aint that tough

Chorus
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 Riff 1

F#m        A            F#m
It's not that the darkness can't touch our lives
          A
I know it will, in time

 Riff 1

F#m     A    E
But she's no ordinary valentine
   G
And now when the sun goes down
      E    A
she sheds a darling light.

 Riff 2


D     A          D
I've been selfish and full of pride
       A             D
And she knows deep down there's a little child
        A         F#m
But I've got a good side to me as well
         E         D        Dsus4 D
And it's that she loves in spite of everything else

Outro
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A C A G D A



Notes: Watching James Mercer play it live on youtube. He does little embellishments
which add a fair bit to the song a little. But they aren't really necessary if you just want
to bash it out.

For example on the A chords he will generally play:

A A/G A

likewise on the C:

C C/G C

A good example of this is on here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mveay4Ff1BU