• Song:

    Black Dresses

  • Artist:

    Spill Canvas

  • Album:

    Sunsets & Car Crashes

Tabbed by: Jeremy Snook


Tuning: Standard

Note: An X below the tab's notes means you need to palm mute that note. An X ON the tab 
means you just do not play that not during the strum.

Chords:

   E  B  C  A   A2 D
e | -0--0--0--0---0--0-- | 
B | -7--0--0--8---0--0-- | 
G | -0--7--0--0---4--0-- | 
D | -5--0--7--10--2--(b9)- | 
A | -7--5--x--0---0--0-- | 
E | -0--7--8--x---x--10- | 

Intro:

  Sweep/strum these
        V           V           V
e | ------------------------------------------------- | 
B | ----7-7/8p0------------------------------------ | 
G | ------0---------7-7/9p0---------------0h7------ | 
D | ------5-----------0---------7-7p0--7p0-----(b9)---- | 
A | ------7-----------5-----------x------------------ | 
E | --00--0-------77--7-------88--8--88---88--------- | 
    xx          xx          xx     xx   xx

e | --------------------------------------------------------------- | 
B | ----7-7/8p0-------------------------------------------------- | 
G | ------0---------7-7/9p0---------------0h7-------------------- | 
D | ------5-----------0---------7-7p0--7p0-----9~--7~--4/5/5/7~~~ | 
A | ------7-----------5-----------x-------------------------------- | 
E | --00--0-------77--7-------88--8--88---88----------------------- | 
    xx          xx          xx     xx   xx

/ = slide up
\ = slide down
B = hammer-on
p = pull-off

Intro strumming:
E B C A
E B C C
E B C A
E B C C

Verse:

E  B     C              A       E   B
In muddy grass we stand side by side
         C        A
with our knuckles interlocked
E     B       C         A   E   B
Black dresses flood the c  emetery
        C          A
in this cliche tragedy
A                             A
Just do as you're instructed and....
C              D             A
Take this razor and cut your palms

                         E                B         C
I'll do the same until a river of crimson begins to flow
                   D            A
Now drip your ruby red over the casket
  E              B          A
A funeral for my once loved youth

Pre-chorus:

   E      B          C
My secret is fatally gorgeous
A           A
I'd die for you
            E          B             C
But in this Bonnie and Clyde kind of romance
A               A
tell me what would you do?
   E         B        C
My secret is fatally gorgeous
A        A
I'd die for you
             E         B         C
But when your precious life is at stake
        A         B          C
tell me would you die for me too?

Chorus:

E                 B            C
The quivering liquids in your stomach
                          A
will eat away at the bad habits that have made you
       E                B                   C
a real character in the story of your now distant life
A2               A2
Goodnight and goodbye, quickly
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