Joanna Newsom - Leaving The City Chords

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[Verse A]
Dm               F5
Hay and a clean stall
      Bb5        Dm
And ivy on a garden wall
                   F5
And a sign saying sold
            Bb5         Dm
And an old coat for the bad cold

[Instrumental]
D5 C5 Bb5 C5 [x2]

[Verse B]
D5 C5           Bb5
    I believe in you
D5 C5           Bb5
Do you believe in me?
D5 C5           Bb5
What do you want to do?
D5 C5           Bb5
Are we leaving the city?

D5 C5           Bb5
On the black road
D5 C5           Bb5
Through the gold fields
D5 C5           Bb5
While the fiends are plowed
D5 C5           Bb5
Towards what we are allowed

[Verse C]
            Dm          C
The bridle bends in idle hands
       Bb                   Dm
And slows your canter to a trot
     C           Bb
We mean to stop in increments
           Dm         C        Bb
But can't commit, we post and sit in impotence
          Dm              C       Bb 
The harder the hit, the deeper the dent
            Dm          C      Bb    
We seek our name, we seek out fame
               Dm     C        Bb
In our credentials, paned in glass
     Dm          C      Bb 
Trying to master incidentals
         Dm                   C      Bb 
Bleach a collar, leech a dollar from our cents
        Dm          C      Bb 
The longer you live, the higher the rent

[Verse B]
    D5     C5  Bb5
Beneath a pale sky
    D5     C5  Bb5
Beside the red barn
           D5   C5  Bb5
Below the white clouds
D5     C5  Bb5
 Is all we are allowed
    D5     C5  Bb5
Here, the light will seep
        D5  C5  Bb5
And the scythe will reap
       D5  C5  Bb5
And spirit will rend
     D5   C5  Bb5
In counting toward the end

[Instrumental]
Dm C Bb [x2]

[Verse C]
      Dm            C    
In December of that year
    Bb                         Dm
The word came down that she was here
    C
The days were shorter
  Bb     Dm          C
I was sure if she came round
           Bb
I'd hold my ground
      Dm            C  Bb
I can do what they alluded to
                 Dm
A change that came to pass
     C           Bb            
And spring did range, weeping grass
       Dm       C
And sleepless broke
   Bb                    Dm
Itself upon my winter glass
   C                 Bb        
And I could barely breathe for seeing
Dm    C             Bb
All the splintered light that leaked
                     Dm          C
A fish is fleeting, launched in flight
    Dm                           Dm
Unstaunched daylight, brightly bleeding
         C                Bb
Bleached the night with dawn deleting

[Verse B]
      D5   C5  Bb5
In that high sun 
 D5   C5  Bb5
  After our good run
        D5   C5  Bb5
When the spirit bends
           D5   C5  Bb5
Beneath knowing it must end
                D5   C5  Bb5
And that is all I want here
   D5   C5  Bb5
To draw my gaunt spirit to bow
     D5   C5  Bb5
Beneath what I am allowed
     D5   C5  Bb5
Beneath what I am allowed
         Dm   C  Bb
Beneath what I am allowed

Dm C Bb [repeat to fade]