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Artist: Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
Album:  Cardinology
Song:   Let Us Down Easy
tabber: John Baer (eddiebauerman16@aol.com)
tabbed on 12/9/08

Chords: (rhythm guitar played power chord style, with some bluesy licks and inflections.)

Intro:

Bb, C (lead into) F (X2)

Intro Riff: (palm muted):

    F (133211@1)name="chord_x1333x@1">Bb
e|----------------------*---------------|
B|----------------------*---------------|
G|-------3--------------*---------------|  x3(Third time start singing)
D|-------3-----3--3-x---*-3-3-x-3-3-x-3-|
A|---3h5---3h5----3-x---*-3-3-x-3-3-x-3-|
E|1---------------1-x---*-1-1-x-1-1-x-1-|



V1: (repeat intro riff)

Bb (x1333x@1)         FIn (133211@1)all my life, Mercy

Bb (x1333x@1)            F (133211@1)                            A (x02220@1)  BbHasn't (x1333x@1)known my name this well/ Like how every sea filters out

Bb (x1333x@1)                                    FAnd (133211@1)leads us gently to a creek/ We sit around

Dm (xx0231@1)                           C (x32010@1)            BbSome (x1333x@1)of us are strong/ But the rest of us are weak

Chorus 1:
               
          F (133211@1)                 BbSo (x1333x@1)let us down/ But if you must
                      
                  FLet (133211@1)us down easy  lord

Bb (x1333x@1)              F (133211@1)
Let us down easy .lord

Bb (x1333x@1)          FOooo (133211@1)  Let us down

V2:

   Bb (x1333x@1)             F (133211@1)              
In patches of pink clouds, Thick smoke/ 
         Bb (x1333x@1)           FIt (133211@1)comes rising off the hillside slopes
                       
              A (x02220@1)  BbDown (x1333x@1)here in this neighbourhood/ It's just the dumps
       
With cars iced up, perfect/ for writing 
    Fon (133211@1)if/ You're wearing gloves
DmEvery (xx0231@1)season I spend alone/ 
C (x32010@1)                         BbFeels (x1333x@1)like a thousand to my heart and in my soul

Chorus 2:                                                                    
Bb (x1333x@1)       F (133211@1)                   BbSo (x1333x@1)let me down if you must/ But let us down/ 
F (133211@1)            Bb (x1333x@1)       FEasy (133211@1)lord oh, Let us down easy Lord

Bb (x1333x@1)         FOooo (133211@1)Let us down!

Bridge:

F (133211@1)                            BbLet (x1333x@1)us down/Let us down/Let Us Down (x2)

Interlude: F Bb (x2)

V3: (Chords the same, essentially)

Instead of praying I tell god/ these jokes he must

Be tired of himself so much he must be more/ Than disappointed Christmas

comes we eat alone/ A pretty smile surrounds a pretty girl who

Takes your order she yells/ it and cries alone in/ 

The backroom once in a while until it stops/ Then she smiles

Chorus 3:

So let her down easy if you must/ But let her down easy

Some of us are strong/ But the rest of us are weak

And go it alone/ So let us down easy if you must

But let us down easy, Lord/Let us down easy lord,

Outro: 

F (133211@1)                                   Bb(Let (x1333x@1)us down/ Let us down/Let us down, Easy)  (x a ton of times)

End on F


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