September chords by The Shins

Chords with lyrics

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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|------------------|
BB|-2--2-----0-------|
G+G|-2-----2-----2----|
D MajorD|-2--------------4-|
A augmentedA|-0----------------|
E MajorE|------------------|

Riff 2

e|---------------|
BB|---------------|
G+G|---------------|
D MajorD|---------------|
A augmentedA|--0--2--4------|
E MajorE|---------------|


Verse
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A augmentedA     C majorC        A augmentedA
Into this strange elastic world
     C majorC        A augmentedA
Pont us kindly gave up a pearl
   D MajorD        G+G
His eternal stone and mud
           D MajorD  D7D7 A augmentedA
But ain't she lovely bone and blood

      C majorC   A augmentedA
Born of the sea
      E minorEm  G+G     A augmentedA
A majorA thousand miles away from me
      D MajorD
A augmentedA court of angels
       G+G
Wards of the sun

A augmentedA future forming
 D MajorD   D7D7  A augmentedA
A majorA curse undone

Chorus
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 Riff 1

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

 Riff 1

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

 Riff 2

D MajorD     A augmentedA          D MajorD
I've been selfish and full of pride
       A augmentedA             D MajorD
And she knows deep down there's a little child
        A augmentedA         F# minorF#m
But I've got a good side to me as well
         E MajorE         D MajorD         Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
And it's that she loves in spite of everything else

Break
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A augmentedA C majorC A augmentedA E minorEm G+G

Verse
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A augmentedA       C majorC            A augmentedA
A majorA song in the tree has distracted her mind
       C majorC          A augmentedA
Some other curious form of life
       D MajorD        G+G
Has made it's presence to her known
            D MajorD  D7D7  A augmentedA
And she coos so gently soft and low

      C majorC          A augmentedA
Her shining face in a million reflections
    E minorEm       G+G     A augmentedA
in tiny raindrops that fall in a veil
     D MajorD          G+G
Over our city like notes from above
            D MajorD  D7D7  A augmentedA
It overwhelms me! just aint that tough

Chorus
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 Riff 1

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

 Riff 1

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

 Riff 2


D MajorD     A augmentedA          D MajorD
I've been selfish and full of pride
       A augmentedA             D MajorD
And she knows deep down there's a little child
        A augmentedA         F# minorF#m
But I've got a good side to me as well
         E MajorE         D MajorD        Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
And it's that she loves in spite of everything else

Outro
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A augmentedA C majorC A augmentedA G+G D MajorD A augmentedA


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 augmentedA chords he will generally play:

A augmentedA A/GA/G A augmentedA

likewise on the C:

C majorC C/GC/G C majorC

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