"New Lover" By Josh Ritter Tabbed by Tom(tkforeverer@yahoo.com) Props to Abe who helped me out a bit A -> B7 Strumming pattern is something like ... D D DUDU go nuts. Last chord rolls into the start of the next line a bit. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Intro Progression x 4 (4th time he skips the E/C#and (042100@1)plays the Etwice (022100@1)into the A) E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1)E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1)E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1)E (022100@1) E (022100@1) A (x02220@1) B7-- (x21202@1) E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) Can't pretend that all is well it's like I'm haunted by a ghost E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) There are times I cannot speak your name but I catch it in my throat E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) And if I don't sing this song it's out of fear of sour notes (not sure if that's 'of' OR 'or') Progression x 1 (E E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7) E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) Oh I feel like a miser Oh I feel low and mean E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) For accusing you of stealing what I offered you for free E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) Oh it beggars the belief sometimes what thieves we lovers be Progression x 1 (E E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7) E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) Oh I don't know who you're with these days might be with someone new E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) And if you are I hope he treats you like a lover ought to do E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) But whoever makes you happy it don't really matter who E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1)A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) I've got a new lover now I hope you've got a lover too Progression x 4 (E E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7) E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) Praise the water under bridges praise the time we say we'll heal E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) Praise the fonder that still grows on the absent heart and fields E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) Praise be to this pain these days it's all I seem to feel (not sure on lyric? all the same i fear? all the same i feel?) Progression x 1 (E E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7) E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) Perhaps the fault was mine perhaps I just ignored E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) Who you were always gonna be instead of who I took you for E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) I've been treated worse it's true still I expected more Progression x 1 (E E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7) E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) But I will not chase your shadow as you go from room to room E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) Dropping handkerchiefs and daggers smoking guns and other clues E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) For what someone did with someone and who did what to who E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1)A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) I've got a new lover now I hope you've got a lover too. Progression x 4 E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) I got a new lover now she knows just what I need E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) When I wake up in the night she can read me back my dreams E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) And she loves them cause she never needs to tell me what they mean Progression x 1 (E E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7) E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1)A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) I got a new lover now I know that she's not mine E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) And I only want to hold her I don't need to read her mind E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) And she only looks like you when she's in a certain light Progression x 1 (E E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7) E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) I hope you've got a lover now hope you've got somebody who E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) Can give you what you need like i couldn't seem to do E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) But if you're sad and you are lonesome and you've got nobody true E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) I'd be lying if I said that didn't make me happy too. Progression x 1 (E E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7) E (022100@1) E/C# (042100@1) A (x02220@1) B7 (x21202@1) I'd be lying if I said that didn't make me happy too. Progression x 4 Ring out E
