Johnny Flynn - The Landlord Chords

[Intro]
 
               Cm               Bb
I met the landlord, I kept my soul
                                  Cm
And in of a man he was ashen and coal
                                   Bb
Spoke quick, confusing, burdened me up
                                     Cm
Left me for hollow when he'd had his sup
Ab  Cm G
 
[Verse 1]
 
Cm                                         Bb
   I bore all his load til the day that we met
                                             Cm
And one glimpse of you bent the load from my fret
                                              Bb
To my frown, to my stern, and then rocking me by
                                              Cm
And a game and a cheer, on the earth, in the sky
 
Ab Cm
 
[Chorus]
 
Bb                Ab
So said I to the landlord
Cm            Bb       Ab
   "I'll not see thee here"
Cm     Bb                 Ab
   And I'll wait for his answer
 
Cm G
 
[Verse 2]
N.C                 Cm                       Bb
Til the load wasn't there and it never had been
                                      Cm
And all was before was so distant a dream
                                              Bb
Til I saw in my friend what had once been my foe
                                          Cm
And the terrible landlord had all in his tow
 
[Verse 3]
Ab Cm                                                Bb
     In his wake and the call of his burning black ship
                                                    Cm
And the wind it was blown from his proud blackened lips
                                               Bb
And I with my bellows cast clouds through the sky
                                                  Cm
So that his awful flames, they might moisten and die
 
[Interlude]
Ab Cm
 
Cm Abmaj7 Bb Ab Gm Cm
 
Cm Abmaj7 Gm Ab Gm Ab Bb Gm
 
Cm Bb Cm Gm
 
Cm Bb F Cm
 
[Verse 4]
Ab Cm                                                    Bb
      And then I with a light shone on that which was there
                                              Cm
As in light I did nothing, as in days I did fare
                                        Bb
And so days in my ears and days all around
                                           Cm
Proving death to the landlord and all he abounds
                                                 Bb
And the night she shone, too, until all that was now
                                            Cm
Had been hoisted for viewing in all of the crowd
                                                 Bb
I was glad in the light that crept twixt new and old
                                               Cm
And then polished with all, and so tender so bold
 
[Chorus]
Ab C          Bb       Ab
     So said I to the landlord
Cm         Bb        Ab
"I'll not see thee here"
Cm         Bb            Ab
  And I'll wait for his answer
Cm G
 
[Verse 5]
Cm                                           Bb
  So meek in that moment, thee in error til all
                                                   Cm
Of my friends and their friends saw in joy their loads fall
                                                      Bb
They fell in they fell out, they fell near they fell far
                                             Cm
They gave all in a shout and put all to the stars
                                              Bb
Lifting them as one load, such a burdensome thing
                                                     Cm
Troubling nothing that lives now, no and nothing it seems
                                      Bb
Nothing that dances, nothing that's moved
                                            Cm
In the old spinning circle of all that we proved
 
[Chorus]
 
Ab C         Bb        Ab
    So said I to the landlord
Cm           Bb        Ab
   "I'll not see thee here"
Bb                     Ab
And I'll wait for his answer
Ab C         Bb        Ab
    So said I to the landlord
Cm           Bb        Ab
   "I'll not see thee here"
Bb                     Ab
And I'll wait for his answer
Cm         Bb        Ab
  Though I wake in fear
 
Cm G
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