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Song title: Idaho
Original Album: Fires
Words and Music by Nerina Pallot
Copyright ? 2005 Idaho / Echo Records
Published by Idaho Records
Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)
NOTE:
This is such a beautiful song: melancholy and strangely uplifting at the same
time. Recorded on the piano, here it is transcribed for guitar. If you finger-
pick the chords in the basic figure, it sounds quite good but is hard work at
this tempo. I play barr? chords everywhere, but see what you think...
A cool song from one of the great songwriters out there. Enjoy!
INTRO:
[play: Dm Bb C G] [x4]
VERSE:
Dm (xx0231@1) Bb (x1333x@1) C (x32010@1) GIn (320003@1)the back of a car on a road in the dark,
Dm (xx0231@1) Bb (x1333x@1) C (x32010@1) GIn (320003@1)the stillicide, silently falling snow,
Dm (xx0231@1) Bb (x1333x@1) C (x32010@1) GI (320003@1)have packed everything that I own in a bag,
Dm (xx0231@1) Bb (x1333x@1) C (x32010@1)GAnd (320003@1)I'm driving, I'm driving to Idaho,
[play: Dm Bb C G] [x2]
Dm (xx0231@1) Bb (x1333x@1) C (x32010@1) GA (320003@1)poem for leaving, a reason to go,
Dm (xx0231@1) Bb (x1333x@1) C (x32010@1)GSo (320003@1)I'm driving, I'm driving to Idaho.
CHORUS:
F (133211@1) Dm (xx0231@1) Bb'Cause (x1333x@1)I can't be anyone but me, anyone but me,
F (133211@1) Dm (xx0231@1) BbAnd (x1333x@1)I can't keep dreaming that I'm free, dreaming that I'm free,
Gm (355333@1) C (x32010@1) Gm (355333@1) CI (x32010@1)don't want to fall a-sleep and watch my life from fifty feet,
Gm (355333@1) Bb (x1333x@1) C (x32010@1) FMy (133211@1)hands are on the wheel so I'm driving to Ida-ho,
[play: F (133211@1)C (x32010@1) F (133211@1)C]
F (133211@1) C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) C'Cause (x32010@1)I hear it's mighty pretty...
VERSE:
Dm (xx0231@1) Bb (x1333x@1) C (x32010@1) GAnd (320003@1)oh, I've been dumb, I've been perfectly beautiful,
Dm (xx0231@1) Bb (x1333x@1) C (x32010@1) GLain (320003@1)on my back buying lovers with stealth,
Dm (xx0231@1) Bb (x1333x@1) C (x32010@1) GBut (320003@1)I'm sick of you all, and I'm sick of opinions,
Dm (xx0231@1) Bb (x1333x@1) C (x32010@1) GAnd (320003@1)I'm sick of this war I wage on myself...
BRIDGE:
Dm (xx0231@1) C (x32010@1) Dm (xx0231@1) C- (x32010@1)F- (133211@1)CI (x32010@1)don't know why I'm so gripped to go there
Dm (xx0231@1) C (x32010@1) Dm (xx0231@1) C- (x32010@1)F- (133211@1)CA (x32010@1)universe riddle that only I know?
Dm (xx0231@1) Bb (x1333x@1) C (x32010@1) GMr. (320003@1)Robert says, "It's all in the head!"
Dm (xx0231@1) Bb (x1333x@1) C (x32010@1) GTell (320003@1)me, Phaedrus, what's good, is it Ida-ho?
CHORUS:
F (133211@1) Dm (xx0231@1) Bb'Cause (x1333x@1)I can't be anyone but me, anyone but me,
F (133211@1) Dm (xx0231@1) BbAnd (x1333x@1)I can't keep dreaming that I'm free, dreaming that I'm free,
Gm (355333@1) C (x32010@1) Gm (355333@1) CI (x32010@1)don't want to fall a-sleep and watch my life from fifty feet,
Gm (355333@1) Bb (x1333x@1) C (x32010@1) FMy (133211@1)hands are on the wheel so I'm driving to Ida-ho,
[play: F (133211@1)C (x32010@1) F (133211@1)C]
F (133211@1) C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) C'Cause (x32010@1)I hear it's mighty pretty...
[play: Dm Bb C G] [x4]
[repeat CHORUS]
[play: F (133211@1)C (x32010@1) F (133211@1)C]
F (133211@1) C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) C'Cause (x32010@1)I hear it's mighty pretty...
C (x32010@1) F...in (133211@1)Ida-ho.
CHORDS:
Dm 557765
Bb 688766 or 113331
C 335553 or 8 10 10 988
G (320003@1) 355433
Gm 355333
F (133211@1) 88 10 10 10 8
