• Song:

    Apartment Story

  • Artist:

    The National

I'm a huge fan of The National, but their songs are not easy to play or to cover (most
them at least), neither to figure out actually :). The other chords available here are
on ashow from the National and so are accurate to the way the band plays it, but it's 
really that much fun to play on an acoustic guitar. I just tabbed my own version in about
minutes with pretty much only simple chords. The key sounds right, and I do improvise a 
C variations when I play it that go nicely with the song so no, it is not accurate as in 
same as the original, just play or fiddle around with it and tell me what you think. Enjoy!

PS: the tab may miss a chord so if you feel like something is missing, it probably is :)

Capo: 2nd or 3rd fret (for me, adapt depending on your voice)
Tuning: standard

Chords used:
G:   320033 or 320003
C:   032010
C2:  030010 (don't know the name of this chord)
C/E: 020010

The song with the chords:
G (320003@1)	      C (x32010@1)     C2 (x32030@1)      C/E (x3111x@5)  GBe (320003@1)still for a second while I try and try to pin your flowers on
	C (x32010@1)C2 (x32030@1)C/ENana (x3111x@5)na na

        GCan (320003@1)you carry my drink I have everything else
      CI (x32010@1)can tie my tie all by myself
      G (320003@1)                 C (x32010@1)       C2 (x32030@1)C/EI'm (x3111x@5)getting tied, I'm forgetting why

         G (320003@1)                        COh (x32010@1)we're so disarming darling, everything we did believe

   G (320003@1)                         C (x32010@1) C2 (x32030@1)    C/Eis (x3111x@5)diving diving diving diving off the balcony

G (320003@1)                             C (x32010@1) C2Tired (x32030@1)and wired we ruin too easy
G (320003@1)                                        Csleep (x32010@1)in our clothes and wait for winter to leave

G (320003@1)                              C (x32010@1)               C2 (x32030@1)  GHold (320003@1)ourselves together with our arms around the stereo for hours
     C (x32010@1)  C2 (x32030@1)C/ENana (x3111x@5)na na

         GWhile (320003@1)it sings to itself or whatever it does
        Cwhen (x32010@1)it sings to itself of its long lost loves
       G (320003@1)                   C (x32010@1)     C2 (x32030@1)C/EI'm (x3111x@5)getting tied, I'm forgetting why

G (320003@1)                             C (x32010@1)  C2Tired (x32030@1)and wired we ruin too easy
G (320003@1)                                        C (x32010@1)   C2sleep (x32030@1)in our clothes and wait for winter to leave
G (320003@1)                                   Cbut (x32010@1)I'll be with you behind the couch when they come
     C2 (x32030@1)      C/E (x3111x@5)              G (320003@1)    C (x32010@1) C/E
on a different day just like this one

GWe'll (320003@1)stay inside til somebody finds us
Cdo (x32010@1)whatever the TV tells us
G (320003@1)                         C (x32010@1)      C2stay (x32030@1)inside our rosy-minded fuzz for days

C/E   G
We'll stay inside til somebody finds us
Cdo (x32010@1)whatever the TV tells us
G (320003@1)                         Cstay (x32010@1)inside our rosy-minded fuzz

C2 (x32030@1)C/E (x3111x@5)Gso (320003@1)worry not
	       Call (x32010@1)things are well
      C2 (x32030@1)name="chord_x3111x@5">C/E Gwe'll (320003@1)be alright
             C (x32010@1) C2 (x32030@1) C/Ewe (x3111x@5)have our looks and perfume

Gstay (320003@1)inside til somebody finds us
Cdo (x32010@1)whatever the TV tells us
G (320003@1)                         Cstay (x32010@1)inside our rosy-minded fuzz

C2 (x32030@1)C/E (x3111x@5)Gso (320003@1)worry not
	       Call (x32010@1)things are well
      C2 (x32030@1)name="chord_x3111x@5">C/E Gwe'll (320003@1)be alright
             C (x32010@1)      C2 (x32030@1)   Gwe (320003@1)have our looks and perfume on

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