• Song:

    I Will Follow You Into The Dark

  • Artist:

    Death Cab For Cutie

  • Album:

    2005-08-30: KEXP Live

I Will Follow You into the Dark
written by Ben Gibbard
tabbed by Joe

Capo 5th fret - standard tuning

the chords are written relative to the capo; the actual chords are in parentheses.
(ie, the song is written in the key of Dm, but with the capo you play it like it's Am)

intro/chorus:

  Am(Dm)       C(F)        F(Bb)       C(F)    G(C)-1st inversion
e|------------------------------------------------------------
B|-----1-----------1------------------------------------------
G|-------2---2-------0---0-----2-----------0-------0----------
D|---2-----2-----2-----2---------3---3---2---2---0---0--------
A|-0-----------3-------------3-----3---3-------2--------------
E|-------------------------1----------------------------------

  Am(Dm)       C(F)        G(C)                    
e|-------------------------------------------------
B|-----1-----------1-----------3-----3-------3-----
G|-------2---2-------0---0-------0-----0---0---0---
D|---2-----2-----2-----2-----0-----0-----0-------0-
A|-0-----------3-----------------------------------
E|-------------------------3-----------------------

  Am(Dm)       C(F)        E(A)        C(F)    G(C)-1st inversion
e|------------------------------------------------------------
B|-----1-----------1-----------0------------------------------
G|-------2---2-------0---0-------1---1-----0-------0----------
D|---2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2---2---0---0--------
A|-0-----------3-----------------------3-------2--------------
E|-------------------------0----------------------------------

  Am(Dm)       F(Bb)      C(F)
e|-------------1-----------------------------------
B|-----1-------1--1-----------1-----------1--------
G|-------2---2-2----2---2-------0---0-------0---0--
D|---2-----2---3-3----3-----2-----2-----2-----2----
A|-0-----------3----------3-----------3------------
E|-------------1-----------------------------------

(repeat)

Verse:

   C(F)                    Am(Dm)
e|---------------------------------------------------
B|-----1-----------1-----------1-----------1---------
G|-------0---0-------0---0-------2---2-------2---2---
D|---2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----
A|-3-----------3-----------0-----------0-------------
E|---------------------------------------------------
 (Love of mine, someday    you will die, but
   
   F(Bb)                   C(F)        G(C)
e|---------------------------------------------------
B|-----------------------------1-----------3---------
G|-----2-----------2-------------0---0-------0---0---
D|-------3---3-------3---3---2-----2-----0-----0-----
A|---3-----3-----3-----3---3-------------------------
E|-1-----------1-----------------------3-------------
   I'll be close behind,   I'll follow you into the dark)

(repeat)


the last verse and the last chorus are a little different
when he sings "in the blackest of rooms" 
you add this part to the end of the verse:

  C(F)            F(Bb)     
e|----------------1-------------------
B|-----1----------1-------------------
G|-------0---0----2-------------------
D|---2-----2------3-------------------
A|-3--------------3-------------------
E|----------------1-------------------
In the blackest of rooooooooooooooooms

(strum on "rooms")

and when he sings "then i'll follow you into the dark"
at the very end of the song, he just plays three chords:

   G(C)           F(Bb)             C(F)
e|-3--------------1-----------------0--
B|-3--------------1-----------------1--
G|-0--------------2-----------------0--
D|-0--------------3-----------------2--
A|-2--------------3-----------------3--
E|-3--------------1-------------------
 Then I'll follow you into the dark
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