Perhaps the saddest, most poetic song she has ever written. (Stunning (and
difficult) chord progressions- as goes for the rest of the album's songs)
Intro: C#5 A5 F#m11 B5 C#5 B5
C#5 A5 A5 F#m11 B5
There's a city,
F#m11 B5
draped in net
F#m11 E5 B5
Fisherman net
C#5 B5 B5 A5
And in the half light,
A5
in the half light
C#5 A5 A5 F#m11 B5
It looks like every tower
F#m11 E5 B5
Is covered in webs
F#5 E5 B5
Moving and glistening and rocking
F#5 E5
Its babies in rhythm
B5 F#5
As the spider of time is climbing
E5 B5
Over the ruins
F#5 Ab5 A7M#11 A5
F#5 F#5 F#m7add11 Eadd11 E5
There were hundreds of people living here
Badd11/D# B13/D# B7add11/D# Badd11/D# B7add11/D#
Sails at the windows
B5 A5 A5 B5
And the planes came crashing down
F#5 F#5 F#5 E5 E5
And many a pilot drowned
Eadd11 Badd11/D# B13/D# B7add11/D# Badd11/D# B7add11/D#
And the speed boats flying above
A5 B5
Put your hand over the side of the boat
C#m11
And what do you feel?
C#5 F#5 F#m11 B5
My mother
F#m11 E5 B5
and her little brown jug
F#5 E5 B5
It held her milk
F#5 E5 B5
And now it holds our memories
F#5 E5 Badd11/Eb5 B5
I can hear her singing
F#5 E5
?Little brown jug don't I love thee?
E5
?Little brown jug don't I love thee?
F#5 F#5 F#5 E5
Ho ho ho,
F#5 B5
hee hee hee
B5 B5 B5 B5 B5 B5 C#m11 E5 C#m11 E5
(Little brown jug don't I love thee)
B5 B5 B5 F#m7add11 E5 A5
(Little brown jug don't I love thee)
Badd11 A5 E5 F#5 F#5
E5 F#5 Badd11 F#5
I hear her laughing
E5 A5 E5 A5 Badd11
She is standing in the kitchen
F#5 A5 E5 A5
As we come in the back door
C#5 A5
See it fall
F#5 F#5 F#5 B5 B5
See it fall
F#5 E5 B5
Oh little spider climbing out of a broken jug
F#5 F#5 E5 E5 B5 Ab5
F#5 F#5 F#5 E5 E5
And the pieces will lay there a while
Badd11/D# B13/D# B7add11/D# Badd11/D#
In a house draped in net
B5 F#5 F#m7add11 Badd11 B5
In a room filled with coral
F#5 F#5 F#5 E5 Eadd11 E5 Badd11/Eb5
Sails at the window
B13/D# B7add11/D# Badd11/D# B7add11/D#
Forests of masts
Badd11/Eb5 F#m7add11/A5 F#madd11/A5 F#m7add11/A5 B5 Badd11
Put your hand over the side of the boat
F#5 Badd11/Eb5 B5
Put your hand over the side of the boat
B5
And what do you feel?