• Song:

    Silver Jenny Dollar

  • Artist:

    New Pornographers

  • Album:

    Together

tabber: John Baer 



(Intro to 0:15. Play riff with chords)

  D5              G5  A5       D5               G5 A5     
E--------------- | -2------------------ | ------2----- | 
B-3-3-3--3-5h3-5 | ---2-2-----3-3-3--3- | 5h3-5---2-2- | 
G--------------- | ---2-2-------------- | --------2-2- | (x2)
D--------------- | -------------------- | ------------ | 
A--------------- | -------------------- | ------------ | 
E--------------- | -------------------- | ------------ | 


(Verse 1:)

G5             A5         D5     F#5
Was only ever passing through

 G5             A5         D5       F#5
She's only ever passing through

G5    A5             D5   F#5
     "Carlitas and You"

G5  A5                   D5   F#5
   Was the name of her act

(Prechorus 1:)

        B5       E5           B5        E5  
And its true, to love her is all I can do

     B5                     E5
In a world that's beaten everything black and blue



(Chorus 1:)

E5          G5            A5
They haul a silver Jenny dollar 

D5
(a-whoa whoa whoa whoa...)

  G5            A5
A silver Jenny dollar

D5
(a-whoa whoa whoa whoa...)

  G5             A5
A silver Jenny dollar

D5
(a-whoa whoa whoa whoa)

      G5         A5  D5
(whoa whoa whoa)

(Repeat Intro chords/riff x2)


(Verse 2:)

G5               A5         D5     F#5
We're only ever passing through

G5                 A5         D5     F#5
We were only ever passing through

G5   A5              D5    F#5
     "Carlitas and You"

G5   A5                   D5   F#5
    Was the name of our act


(Prechorus 2:)

         B5          E5           B5       E5
And its true, you'll notice its all I can do

     B5                  E5
In a world that's beaten everything black and blue

(*Repeat Chorus*)

(Bridge:)

B5           F#5      B5      F#5
The winter's over, the war is over

B5              F#5       G5       A5
A parcel of land men, our scum is true

(no chord)
They'll love ya...

(Solo/breakdown riff: strings and piano at 1:59,
 Notes in "[]" is the piano)
 
E-------------- | ----------------- | 
B---[0]-------- | -[2-2]----------- | 
G-------------- | ----------------- | (x4 to 2:14)
D-------------- | ----------------- | 
A-------5-4-5-- | ------4-0-4-0---- | 
E-3------------ | ----------------- | 


(*Chorus 3: same as before, with some verse vocals and the solo/breakdown riffs 
playing underneath)

End on: D (a-whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa)
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