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Neko Case - City Swans Chords

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City Swans Chords

(ver. 1)
Neko Case
Intro Riff and Verse 1:
(Play through once, then vocals come in halfway through the second time around)
e|------------------------------|-----------------------------|
B|------------------------------|-----------------------------|
G|--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--7------|---7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7----|
D|------------------------------|-----------------------------|
A|--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--5------|---5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5----|
D|------------------------------|-----------------------------|
    1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +          1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +
 
e|------------------------------|-----------------------------|
B|------------------------------|-----------------------------|
G|--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--7------|---7--7--7--7--7--9--9--9----|
D|--5--5--5---------------------|-----------------------------|
A|--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--5------|---5--5--5--5--5--7--7--7----|
D|------------------------------|-----------------------------|
    1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +          1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +
 
[Verse 1](N.C.) (Continue Intro Riff)
Baby, come out
I'll meet you in the street
At the place by the old fire station
We'll get something to eat,
Like we talked about.
 
[Verse 2]
C               Cadd11
Baby, come down
             C       Cadd11
It's been a while now
          C                    Cadd11
I've got so many things I could tell you,
       C                      F
If my stubborn mouth doesn't let me down.
 
[Chorus]
    Em G     Am           G      F
And I can't look at you straight-on
        Em        G         Am            G   F
You're made from something different than I know
 
[Verse 3]
C
I try to slip the marching clock
        F
But centipedes invade my thoughts
         C                     F
Without free will I heel and I go
   C
I step onto that metal plate,
          F
Where it meets the dazzling sound of trains,
      C
And I beg those trains to run.
 
[Chorus]
    Em G     Am           G      F
And I can't look at you straight-on
        Em        G        Am             G  F
You're made from something different than I know
 
[Bridge]
    Am
My eyes are on the sidewalk,
     Am/B
It's gum holding your feet
   Am/C
I swear under my breath
           Am/B
Because I'm starving in your gravity
 
 
        Em        G        Am             G   F
You're made from something different than I know
 
 
[Instrumental Solo]
C   F   C   F
 
[Verse 4]
      C
You linger just a little long,
            F
I see your gun is drawn with the safety on
         C
You can walk me back to my hotel
             F
Like it was home.
       C
And I smell those fools you made cordwood of
    F
In petty dreams that leave me sleeping here,
C
in your arms.
        F
City swans,
                   C
Our crook'd necks long
       F
City swans
 
[Chorus]
    Em G     Am           G      F
And I can't look at you straight-on
        Em        G        Am             G   F
You're made from something different than I know
 
[Bridge]
         Am                  Am/B
And it breaks my heart just like the day,
     Am/C                Am/B
That I looked down and I realized
          F                      C
I'd been sailing so long I'd become the shore
    F
mmmhmmm
      C
City swans
    F
mmmhmmm
                   C
Our crook'd necks long
         F
City swans
 
[Outro]
C F
C F
C F
End on C
            
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