Artist: Gretchen Peters
Song: Idlewild
Tabbed by: DJ
19th Nov 2012

Tuning:Standard
CAPO: 3rd fret (Sounds in key of Cm)

A childhood perspective on a family breaking up,
with a backdrop of the turbulent events of the early 1960's

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

Am (x02210@1)  Am/G (302210@1)  Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)        Am (x02210@1)  Am/G (302210@1)  Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)  
||:  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  / |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  / :|| (Twice)

Am (x02210@1)       Am/G (302210@1)            Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)    
They're in the front seat,      he's got the radio low,
         Am (x02210@1)             Am/G (302210@1)        Fmaj7And (1x3210@1)the moon hangs over Idlewild as the planes touch down,
        Am (x02210@1)    Am/G (302210@1)            Fmaj7He (1x3210@1)is talking,        she's not listening,
        Am (x02210@1)            Am/G (302210@1)    Fmaj7She (1x3210@1)is thinking of her father, who died when she was young!

Am (x02210@1)  Am/G (302210@1)  Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)        
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  / |

Am (x02210@1)       Am/G (302210@1)               Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)    
I'm in the back seat,       they think I'm sleeping,
            Am (x02210@1)           Am/G (302210@1)                Fmaj7But (1x3210@1)I am listening for the cracks between their voices, in the dark,
           Am (x02210@1)   Am/G (302210@1)           Fmaj7We (1x3210@1)are a family,        we are a shipwreck,
            Am (x02210@1)          Am/G (302210@1)          Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)        Am (x02210@1) Am/G (302210@1)Fmaj7And (1x3210@1)we are picking up my Grandma, who is getting... very old!

Dm (xx0231@1)         (F)          Am (x02210@1)  
And they think she's dying, but I think she's laughing,
 (Am/G)        Dm (xx0231@1)            (F)                  G (320003@1)                  
I think she's riding 'Halley's Comet', from Fort Lauderdale to here, 
   (G/B)   Dm (xx0231@1)          (F)        Am (x02210@1)  (Am/G)  
But when I see her, I'll keep her secret,     
Dm (xx0231@1)             (F)             G (320003@1)                   Gsus4 (3x0013@1)GWe (320003@1)all have our secrets that we keep inside ourselves!

Am (x02210@1)  Am/G (302210@1)  Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)        
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  / |

Am (x02210@1)   Am/G (302210@1)         Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)    
They built this airport,        but in a few years...
            Am (x02210@1)          Am/G (302210@1)     Fmaj7...They'll (1x3210@1)name it after Kennedy, the one who died today,
              Am (x02210@1)      Am/G (302210@1)            Fmaj7And (1x3210@1)he will leave her,       and she will suffer,
               Am (x02210@1)        Am/G (302210@1)           Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)  Am (x02210@1)Am/G (302210@1)Fmaj7And (1x3210@1)they will never really know each other...    at---- all!

Dm (xx0231@1)          (F)          Am (x02210@1)   
They think we're driving,  but I know we're drifting,
    (Am/G)       Dm (xx0231@1)               (F)               G (320003@1)                  
They think we're off on some ad - venture, where the hero saves the day, 
  (G/B)          Dm (xx0231@1)      (F)           Am (x02210@1)   
We think we're special, we think we're golden,   
  (Am/G)         Dm (xx0231@1)         (F)                G (320003@1)                Gsus4 (3x0013@1)GWe (320003@1)think we're walking on the moon, but we are dancing in the dark!

Am (x02210@1)  Am/G (302210@1)   Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)   Am (x02210@1)   Am/G (302210@1)  Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)     
OO---, ooo----!        |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  / |

Am (x02210@1)    Am/G (302210@1)               Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)    
We shoot our rockets,        we shoot our presidents,
               Am (x02210@1)            Am/G (302210@1)          Fmaj7We (1x3210@1)shoot the commies, and the n*****s, and the Viet Cong,
             Am (x02210@1)    Am/G (302210@1)           Fmaj7Everything (1x3210@1)changes,        everything stays the same,
         Am (x02210@1)             Am/G (302210@1)        Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)         Am (x02210@1) Am/G (302210@1)Fmaj7And (1x3210@1)the moon hangs over Idlewild as the planes... touch----- down!

Am (x02210@1)  Am/G (302210@1)   Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)   Am (x02210@1)   Am/G (302210@1)  Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)     
||:  OO---, ooo----!        |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  :|| (Repeat)

(Suggestion for coda)
  Am (x02210@1)   Am/G (302210@1)  Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)        G6 (320000@1)  Amsus2
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  / |  /  /   /  / ||
                                ^  ^   ^
    
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Chords in brackets could be missed out,
I don't think Gretchen plays them, 
but there's the suggestion of them
by the bass part on the record.

Am (x02210@1)   =  x02210
Am/G   =  302210
Fmaj7  =  103210
Dm (xx0231@1)   =  xx0231
(F)    =  133211 
G (320003@1)    =  320003
Gsus4  =  320013
(G/B)  =  x20003
(Am/C) =  x32210
G6 (320000@1)   =  320000
Amsus2 =  x02200