Joanna Newsom - Look And Despair Chords

     C        D    F    
The cause is Ozymandian.
     C      D     F    
The mapa sacra continent
  C             G      
is sanded and bevelled,
    Bb              F    
the land lorn and levelled
    Am      EbM7            Dm7      EbM7   

(repeat sequence for all repetitions of this phrase)

        Bb                Gm            Eb                 Bb     
where all of the twenty thousand attending your footfall
          Bb              Gm                   Eb            Bb     
and the causes they died for are lost in the idling bird calls,
          Bb                     Gm            
and the records they left are cryptic at best,
     Eb       Bb     
lost in obsolescence.
     Bb                       Gm            
The text will not yield, nor x ray reveal
      Eb         Bb     
with any fluorescence
             F             Eb        Gm   Db9  
where the hand of the master begins and ends.

(repeat sequence for all repetitions of this phrase)

     Bb    
"It's alright,"
      C       
and "It's all over now,"
     Am7           Dm    
and boarded the plane,
            Bb      
his belt unfastened;
    C                              Am7   Dm    
the boy was known to show unusual daring.
                 Bb    
And, called a “boy”,
     C                          Am7        Dm   
this older man confounding Tammany Hall
                Bb    
(In whose employ 
      C                        Am7            Dm   
King Tamanend himself preceded John’s fall).