Grant Lee Phillips
LITTLE MOON - 2009
CHORDS
Transcribed by Vladimir Roman - All credit to him
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Vladimir Roman
2. STRANGEST THING
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Comments:
1. Parts of Riff 1 also sound in some Verses.
2. Piano chords:
Bass Chord
Em/B B G - B - E
Em/D D G - B - E
D/F# F# D - D - F#
3. Guitar chords:
Em/B Em/D D/F#
e[0] e[0] e(x)
b[3] b[3] b[3]
g[4] g[2] g(0)
d[4] d[0] d[0]
a[2] a[2] a[0]
e[2] e[x] e[2]
4. Riff 1 is played on the piano. The guitar chords and notes
below are, of course, a very simplified transcription.
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Riff 1: x3 (There's a pause between the 2nd and the 3rd time,
where just the G chord + b[--0h3p0h30...-] sound
for serveral bars.)
G Em/B G Em/B
e[--------------------0-0-0-0-------------------0-0-0-0--]
b[--0h3p0h3p0h3p0h3p0---------0h3p0h3p0h3p0h3p0----------]
Em7 Em/D
e[--------------------0-0-0-0--]
b[--0h3p0h3p0h3p0h3p0----------]
Verse 1:
G Bm G Bm
Strangest thing days I feel like dirt
Em D G
And then I see the diamond dust on everything
G Bm G Bm
Strangest thing something plucks my nerve
Em D G D/F# Em D C G D
And then I hear a hundred chords a-shimmering
Verse 2:
G Bm G Bm
Strangest thing the way that one guitar
Em D G
Can move me more than any symphony
G Bm G Bm
Strangest thing when it stars to pour
Em D G D/F# Em D C G D
I feel the sadness and the pain go out of me
Chorus:
G D/F# Em D C G D
I don’t feel sad when Cash wears black I hear the train comin’
G D/F# Em D C G D
Good things down the railroad track ya gotta believe in somethin’
Riff 1: x1
Verse 3:
G Bm G Bm
Yeah the strangest thing that assassin’ gun
Em D G
It was a-trained to fire away on anyone
G Bm G Bm Em
Strangest thing the way a stranger wept for him
D G D/F# Em D C G D
And how she spilt a tear of love
G Bm G Bm Em
Yeah the strangest thing the way that hope can hide itself
D G D/F# Em D C G D
Behind the walls of anything
Chorus:
G D/F# Em D C G D
I don’t feel sad when Cash wears black I hear the train comin’
G D/F# Em D C G D
Good things down the railroad track ya gotta believe in somethin’
Riff 1: x1
Verse 4:
G Bm G Bm Em
Strangest thing like a potion to unspell
D G
The curse of human suffering
G Bm G Bm
Stangest thing strangest things befall
Em D G D/F# Em D C G D
Even the strongest of us all
Ending:
G D/F# Em D C G D
G D/F# Em D C
