Untitled Throw Me A Rope chords by Gillian Welch
Guitar chords with lyrics
Untitled, aka Throw Me A Rope Gillian Welch, David Rawlings performed on Prairie Home Companion 11/1/2003 http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/20031101/index.shtml lyrics transcribed by Boney Earnest 10/1/2005: http://boneyearnest.blogspot.com/2005_10_01_boneyearnest_archive.html crd transcription Kurt Herrmann 1/31/2006 A beautiful song we hope to see on a forthcoming album. Here's my rendition. Some chords I know are more complex with the dual guitar interplay, but I think this is basically it. I'm not sure about the transition chord in the prechorus, where it shifts from some kind of E minor to an E major. Also foggy is the Em7/Asus2 towards the end of the chorus. Note the ending outro is different from the rest of the song.
NOTE: capo 3rd fret (so an E minor as noted here is really a G minor).
This is easier for me to deal with. Sorry if you don't like it.
standard tuning EADGBE
(intro)
Em Am/Am7
(verse)
Em
I lost you a while ago.
Am Em
Still I don't know why.
Em
I can't say your name
Am Em
without a crow flying by.
(prechorus)
Cmaj7 Em/Em7
Gotta watch my back
E/E7
now that you turned me around.
Am/Am7
You got me walkin backwards
Em
into my hometown.
(chorus)
G C
Throw me a rope
G C
on the rolling tide.
Am Em C
What did you want it to be?
Am Em C
You said it's him or me.
Em7/Asus2
The way you made it,
C G
that's the way it will be.
C
(verse)
Em
We were seven years on the Burma shore
Am/Am7 Em
with Gatling guns and (paint? pails? pain?),
Em
working the lowlands door to door
Am/Am7 Em
like Latter Day Saints.
Cmaj7 Em/Em7
But then you turned me out
E/E7
at the top of the stairs.
Am/Am7
You took all the glory
Em
that you just couldn't share.
G C
Throw me a rope
G C
on the rolling tide.
Am Em C
What did you want it to be?
Am Em C
You said it's him or me.
Em7/Asus2
The way you made it,
C G
that's the way it will be.
C
Em
I've never been so disabused.
Am/Am7 Em
I've never been so mad.
Em
I've never been served anything
Am/Am7 Em
that tasted so bad.
Cmaj7 Em/Em7
You might need a friend
E/E7
any day now, any day.
Am/Am7
O my brother be careful.
Em
You are drifting away.
G C
Throw me a rope
G C
on the rolling tide.
Am Em C
What did you want it to be?
Am Em C
You said it's him or me.
Em7/Asus2
The way you made it,
C G
that's the way it will be.
C
Am/Am7 Em
The way you made it,
C Em
that's the way it will be.
Em Am/Am7
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