Belle and Sebastian is a band from Glasgow. Led by guitarist/vocalist Stuart Murdoch, the seven-piece band has an intimate, majestic sound that is equal parts folk-rock and '60s pop. Murdoch has a gift not only for whimsy and surrealism, but also for odd, unsettling lyrical detail which keeps the songs grounded in a tangible reality.
Based in Glasgow, Scotland, Belle and Sebastian released their first two albums in 1996: Tigermilk, recorded over three days
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The notes in brackets are just notes, not chords. The G chord before [F#-F-ED-E-D] is played very briefly before the notes come in. It probably doesn't really matter if you play the G at all, but I think it's there. I think this sounds best with the recording if you barre G and Cm, and mute the E string in the Cm, if you're playing guitar, that is...
intro riff [D-F-DGG]x4 then [D-F-D]
GCm Morning prayers took the girl unawares FC She was late for class and she knew it GCm The broadcaster had a voice that was soothing FC She couldn’t tell if it was a man or wo-man ACG [F#-F-ED-E-D] A patch of sun fell onto her neck ACG [F#-F-ED-E-D] She put her head on her arms on her desk
GCm The lesson today was Acts of Apostles FC The crazy hippies, they’re running scared GCm She shut her eyes and imagined the desert FC No cars, no mobiles, just sun and bread ACG [F#-F-ED-E-D] What would she look like standing by the well? ACG [F#-F-ED-E-D] More like a women and less like a girl
BbEb “Oh, if I could make sense of it all! BbEb I wish that I could sing. I’d stay in a melody Bb I would float along in my everlasting song Am [C-BC-B] D What would I do to believe?”
intro notes again: [D-F-DGG]x4 then [D-F-D]
GCm Later on she plays Morning Has Broken FC She knows she’s bad. She is slowing everbody down GCm The choirmaster, usually a bastard, FC knows her mother’s sick. He’ll be nice to her. ACG [F#-F-ED-E-D] She thinks that she shouldn’t be there at all ACG [F#-F-ED-E-D] Her worries make everything else seem trivial
BbEb “Oh, if I could make sense of it all! BbEb I wish that I could sing. I’d stay in a melody Bb I would float along in my everlasting song Am [C-BC-B] D What would I do to believe?”