Ed Harcourt, born on August 14, 1977, is a British singer-songwriter from Lewes, East Sussex. Before he went solo, he played the bass and keyboards in a band called Snug.
Signed to Heavenly Recordings, he debuted in 2000 with the 6-track EP Maplewood. His full length effort, Here Be Monsters followed in 2001.
He has since released From Every Sphere (2003), Strangers (2004), The Beautiful Lie (2006, his last for Heavenly), Lustre (2010), Back Into The Woods (2013), Time Of Dust (2014), and Furnaces (2016).
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Beautiful.Strummin pattern is easy enough to work out.Any version of the chords listed sound fine (except maybe the F chord which is a bit dodgy anyway and defnitely sounds as an A chord on the 8th fret) but Ed seems to prefer barrin them as high as his little dare til he gets to the chorus so have fun with that.There are some excellent lead synth parts to this song but i can't find tabs for any ed songs anywhere and as a rhythm monkey im havin a lot of trouble workin them out on m'acoustic.Thats a project for all ed fans.By the way if theres any problems with this or my only other tab to date (same feet - stereophonics) please tell me.
Starts with 8 bars of Dm (xx0231) then 4 bars this D-ish chord i cant put a name on then the mans haunting vocals begin...
DmAm The whole town nearly died, CG When rocks flew from the sky, Bb F (sounds nice to throw a Gm in here) The stray dogs whined and howled, AmDm At dark foreboding clouds.
DmAm The mayor screamed and fled, CG The priest hid under his bed, BbF Uprooted trees did spin, AmDm To the sound of a merciless wind.
BbF Will you love me when I'm old? AmDm I'm still hopin I can get that far. BbF No-one escaped the whirlwind's hold, AmDm Except the jailor and his pack of cards.
*I like this bit, it's a bit tricky.Run-down from Bb to F with the bass notes followin notes he sings: BbF e¦-------------------------|I B¦------3----3-------------|I G¦------3----3----3-3------|I D¦------3----3----3-3------|I A¦----1----0------2-2------|I E¦-------------1-----------|I Or something like that. The beauty is in the spontaneaity
BbF And I sit out side watchin BbF Fallin stars playin BbF D minor chords on a BbF Spanish guitar ah-ah. (think there might be a slide to Gm here before goin straight to the Dm in the verse)
VERSE 3(same as the other two) Dm... Well clothes blew threw the streets,
And so did cinema seats,
Their souls could not be saved,
I dug a thousand graves.
Repeat CHORUS then some more D minor to lead into the solo.
The end chords are very hard to pick out,especially while distracted by such an amazin but it seems to be a reptition of a Dm - Bb riff maybe something like this:
Well that's the best that i can do.If you can't tell from half the crap I've already I love this song to pieces so anyone who wants to learn it automatically earns my world needs more people who appreciate Ed. Thanks,goodbye and Que Pasa?