Colette chords by Langhorne Slim

Chords with lyrics

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			   Colette - Langhorne Slim
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Tabbed by: Nate Mitchell
Email: [email protected]

Tuning: Standard
Capo on 2

Notes concerning chord shapes at the bottom of the page.

Intro:

C majorC
C
C majorC
G+G

Verse 1:
C majorC
All I wanted was a good song and a fair friend
C majorC
You came along just then
C majorC
You gave me crazy love and you whispered,
G+G
"You got a bottle and nobody that your missin'."

C majorC
I wasn't much of a fighter or a lover
C majorC
You said, "Don't get excited, but take cover"
C majorC
We stepped into the light to pictures of each other
G+G
Some were in black and white, the others were in color

Chorus:
 C majorC
Colette, I knew the second we met, you'd go to my head
  A minorAm
we took a breath and leapt into the atmosphere
 C majorC
and I guess it was something you said, we'll rest when we're dead
A minorAm
now it must seem pretty clear
   G+G
That I love you. Yes, I do.

(repeat intro and verse 1, lyrics are the same, sing one octave higher)

Break:
G+G
(repeat x8)

Chorus (2x as fast as previously played)
C majorC
A minorAm
C majorC
A minorAm

 C majorC
Colette, I knew the second we met, you'd go to my head
  A minorAm
we took a breath and leapt into the atmosphere
 C majorC
and I guess it was something you said, we'll rest when we're dead
A minorAm
now it must seem pretty clear
   G+G
That I love you.

* Fadd11 is used as a passing tone, hammer your pink onto an A#A# and then
immediately release back into FF Chord shape for Fadd11 is simply
-1-
-1-
-3-
-3-
-0-
---

** the D5D5 of the break is used as a passing tone, just release your fingers from
the C/GC/G shape and pick the A augmentedA and D MajorD strings. Part is so fast that it won't be
noticable and sounds correct in the context.

Note concerning chord shapes:
As with many of Folk musicians, Langhorne Slim uses a slight variation in chord
shapes. The chords will usually feel like they are shaped like C, that is:
-0-
-1-
-0-
-2-
-3-
-0-

To form an FF Chord, all you would have to do would be to move your 2 fingers from
the D MajorD and A augmentedA Strings to the G+G and D MajorD strings, and mute (or don't play) the E MajorE
strings. So FF would then be formed like this:
---
-1-
-2-
-3-
-0-
---

similarly, G+G would be played like this:
-3-
-0-
-0-
-0-
-2-
-3-

Note that your pinky is on the high G.

Another note is that for this song, Langhorne plays C majorC with the added 5th, so just
keep your pinky like its playing G+G and your good to go.

The final chord of this song is C/G, the G+G is the lower G, not the higher one, so
the chord would be:
-0-
-1-
-0-
-2-
-3-
-3-

Forming these chords is far easier then explaining how to :], but I hope this
helped some people who are new to folk chord shapes.