West Coast Of Ireland tab by Justin Vernon

West Coast of Ireland - Justin Vernon

Artist: Justin Vernon
Song: West Coast of Ireland
(2002)

Tuning: Standard
Tempo: 100
Key: D

Tabbed by Sean Davoust @yahoo.com 24.05.2013

Divided into 4/4 bars using | |
The letter d denotes downward picking
and a number contained in parentheses like so (0); signifies a grace note.

|||Intro|||
                   d    d                    d  d  d        d
E-|-------0h2---|--2----0-----------------|--3--2--------|----------------|
B-|-----3-------|--3----3--3--------------|--3--3--3h5---|--3h5--------3--|
G-|---2---------|--2----2-----------------|--2--2--2-----|--2-------2-----|
D-|-0-----------|--0-----------(0)--------|--0-----0-----|--2----0--------|
A-|-------------|----------0--------------|--------------|----------------|
E-|-------------|-----------------3-------|--------------|----------------|

E-|-------------------------|-------------------------|
B-|------3-----3-----3-----3|------3-----3-----3-----3|
G-|--2-2---2-------2---2----|--2-2---2-------2---2----|
D-|--0-------0---0-------0--|-------------------------|
A-|-------------------------|--0-------0---0-------0--|
E-|-------------------------|-------------------------|

E-|----------------------------|-------------------------|
B-|--------3-----3-----3-----3-|------3-----3-----3-----3|
G-|--2---2----2-------2---2----|--2-2---2-------2---2----|
D-|----------------------------|-------------------------|
A-|--0h2--------2---2-------2--|-------------------------|
E-|----------------------------|--3-------3---3-------3--|

d
E-|-------------------------|-------------------------|-----|
B-|------3-----3-----3-----3|------3-----3----------3-|--2--|
G-|--2-2---2-------2---2----|--2-2---2----------2-----|--2--|
D-|-------------------------|-------------------------|--2--|
A-|-------------------------|--0-------0---0----------|--0--|
E-|--3-------3---3-------3--|-------------------------|-----|

|||Verse and chorus|||
Slight alterations in picking pattern:

Sitting on...              looking out...

E-|-------------------------|---------------------------|
B-|------3-----3-----3-----3|--------3-----3-----3-----3|
G-|--2-2---2-------2---2----|--2---2---2-------2---2----|
D-|--0-------0--------------|---------------------------|
A-|-------------0--------0--|--0h2-------2---2-------2--|
E-|-------------------------|---------------------------|

Knowing youre...          feeling that...

E-|-------------------------|--------------------------|
B-|------3-----3-----3-----3|------3-----3-----3-----3-|
G-|--2-2---2-------2---2----|--2-2---2-------2---2-----|
D-|-------------------------|--------------------------|
A-|-------------------------|--0-------0---0-------0---|
E-|--3-------3---3-------3--|--------------------------|

d
E-|-----|
B-|--2--|
G-|--2--|
D-|--2--|   At the end of each verses before the chorus
A-|--0--|
E-|-----|

The lyrics are contained within | | signifying each bar.

Verse 1

|Sitting on the west coast of Ireland | looking out onto the ocean|

|Knowing youre looking straight on back| feeling that same wave of motion|

|Take my sweatshirt off| and my t-shirt as usual|

|Kiss the sand I got some water in my mouth| man its hard being spiritual.|

Chorus

|And the sun shines right on down| to the core of my bones|
|And as much as I know Im far away| I know Im going home|

Verse 2

|Could see myself flying in| to Minneapolis international|

|See my folks and my brother and my sister| and the smell of the dog on their clothes|

|When I get home Im gonna lay right down| to the cool April sun|

|Gonna lay in the grass till I start itching and Id find| probably move along a few times|

Chorus

|And the sun shines right on down| to the core of my bones|
|And as much as I know Im far away| I know Im going home.|

Verse 3

|I can get out to California| I had San Francisco on my mind|

|I could get down to New Orleans| and have that music knock me to the ground|

|Im gonna stay here| and watch another Wisconsin sun go down|

|And have dinner with my parents| and head on in to my small small enough town|

Chorus

|And the sun shines right on down| to the core of my bones|
|And as much as I know Im far away| I know Im going home.|

Verse 4

|And one day were all gonna be a pile of bones| yeah thats what were all gonna be|

|But Ill still be smiling I guarantee| as long as they dont bury me|

|I wanna be up and I wanna be able to feel the air| and be where the river meets the sea|

|Where the sky meets the ocean and where space meets the sky| Ill be singing all of us free|

|All of us free|

Chorus:

|And the sun shines right on down| to the core of my bones|
|And as much as I know Im far away| I know Im going home.|

|I know Im going home|
|I know Im going home|
|I know Im going home|