• 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:

   E5  B5  C5  A5   A5 D5
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
B5 = hammer-on
p = pull-off

Intro strumming:
E5 B5 C5 A5
E5 B5 C5 C5
E5 B5 C5 A5
E5 B5 C5 C5

Verse:

E5  B5     C5              A5       E5   B5
In muddy grass we stand side by side
         C5        A5
with our knuckles interlocked
E5     B5       C5         A5   E5   B5
Black dresses flood the c  emetery
        C5          A5
in this cliche tragedy
A5                             A5
Just do as you're instructed and....
C5              D5             A5
Take this razor and cut your palms

                         E5                B5         C5
I'll do the same until a river of crimson begins to flow
                   D5            A5
Now drip your ruby red over the casket
  E5              B5          A5
A funeral for my once loved youth

Pre-chorus:

   E5      B5          C5
My secret is fatally gorgeous
A5           A5
I'd die for you
            E5          B5             C5
But in this Bonnie and Clyde kind of romance
A5               A5
tell me what would you do?
   E5         B5        C5
My secret is fatally gorgeous
A5        A5
I'd die for you
             E5         B5         C5
But when your precious life is at stake
        A5         B5          C5
tell me would you die for me too?

Chorus:

E5                 B5            C5
The quivering liquids in your stomach
                          A5
will eat away at the bad habits that have made you
       E5                B5                   C5
a real character in the story of your now distant life
A5               A5
Goodnight and goodbye, quickly
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