Grant-Lee Phillips - Strangest Thing Ukulele

Grant Lee Phillips
LITTLE MOON - 2009
CHORDS

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2. STRANGEST THING

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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