Biography:
Joanna Newsom (born Joanna Caroline Newsom on 18 January 1982 in California) is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, singer, and actress. Newsom was classically trained on the harp in her youth, and began her musical career as a keyboardist in 2002 in the San Francisco-based indie band The Pleased.
Newsom started taking piano lessons at a very early age and played for a couple of years, but switched to the harp at seven. Her approach to the harp
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Other songs:
- '81
- Bridges And Balloons
- Clam Crab Cockle Cowry
- Emily
- On A Good Day
- Peach, Plum, Pear
- 81
- A Pin Light Bent
- Anecdotes
- Autumn
- Baby Birch
- Book Of Right
- Ca The Yowes To The Nowes
- Cassiopeia
- Clam Crab Cockle Cowrie
- Cosmia
- Divers
- Does Not Suffice
- Easy
- En Gallop
- Esme
- Go Long
- Good Intentions Paving Company
- Goose Eggs
- Have One On Me
- In California
- Inflamatory Writ
- Inflammatory Writ
- Jackrabbits
- Kingfisher
- Leaving The City
- Look And Despair
- Make Hay
- Monkey Bear
- No Provenance
- Occident
- Only Skin
- Peach Plum Pear
- Ribbon Bows
- Sadie
- Sapokanikan
- Sawdust And Diamonds
- Soft As Chalk
- Sprout And The Bean
- Swansea
- The Divers Wife
- The Fray
- The Northstar Grassman And The Ravens
- The Things I Say
- This Side Of The Blue
- Time As A Symptom
- Waltz Of The 101St Lightborne
- What We Have Known
- You And Me Bess
- You Will Not Take My Heart Alive
Four years of hard work!
This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Standard tuning, capo on 3. This will make things a little easier for you.
If you're new to guitar, sorry, you're still gonna have to use bar chords (but shout out to you
for trying to take on a 12 minute song)
chords used (relative to capo)
C (032010)
Em (022000)
D (000232)
Am (002210)
F (133211)
A (002220)
E (022100)
F#m (244222)
Amaj7 (002120)
Bm (224432)
C#m (446654)
F# (244322)
G#m (466444)
B (224442)
quite a few! but less bar chords than you'd have to use in another tab, so it should be
a little nicer to your hands.
[Verse 1]
C Em D Am
The meadowlark and the chim-choo-ree and the sparrow
C Em D Am
Set to the sky in a flying spree, for the sport of the Pharaoh
C Em D Am
Little while later the Pharisees dragged a comb through the meadow
C Em D Am
Do you remember what they called up to you and me, in our window?
C Em D Am
There is a rusty light on the pines tonight, sun pouring wine, lord, or marrow
C Em D Am
Into the bones of the birches and the spires of the churches juttin' out from the shadow
C Em D Am
and the yoke and the axe, and the old smokestacks, and the bale and the barrow
C Em D Am
and everything sloped like it was dragged from the rope in the mouth of the south below
[Verse 2]
F A E F#m
We've seen those mountains kneeling, felten and grey
F A E F#m
We thought our very hearts would up and melt away
D Amaj7 E F#m
From the snow in the nighttime, just going, and going
D Amaj7 E F#m
and the stirrin' of windchimes, in the mornin', in the mornin'
Bm E Bm E
Helps me find my way back in
Bm E Bm E
From the place where I have been
[Verse 3]
C#m F#
and Emily, I saw you last night by the river!
C#m F#
I dreamed you were skippin' little stones across the surface of the water!
G#m B A C#m
Frowning at the angle where they were lost and slipped under forever
G#m B A C#m
In a mud-cloud, mica-spangled, like the sky'd been breathing on a mirror
C#m F#
Anyhow -- I sat by your side, by the water
C#m F#
You taught me the names of the stars overhead that I wrote down in my ledger
G#m B A C#m
Though all I knew of the rote universe were those Pleiades loosed in December
G#m B A C#m
I promised you I'd set them to verse so I'd always remember
[Chorus]
C#m F#
That the meteorite is a source of the light, and the meteor's just what we see
G#m B A C#m
and the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee
C#m F#
and the meteorite's just what causes the light and the meteor's how it's perceived
G#m B A C#m
and the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet and offering to thee
TINY INTERLUDE (still relative to capo)
e|---------0--------------------------------------------------|
B|------------4s2~--------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--4h5h6-----------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------|
[Verse 4]
Amaj7 Em D Am
You came and lay a cold compress upon the mess I'm in
C Em D Am
Threw the windows wide and cried, "Amen! Amen! Amen!"
C Em D Am
The whole world -- stopped! -- to hear you hollerin'
C Em D Am
Then you looked down and saw now what was happenin'
C Em D Am
The lines are fadin' in my kingdom
C Em D Am
Though I have never known a way to border 'em in
C Em D Am
So the muddy mouths of baboons and sows and the grouse and the horse and the hen
C Em D Am
Grope at the gate of the looming lake that was once a tidy pen
C Em D Am
and the mail is late and the great estates are not lit from within
C Em D Am
The talk in town's becomin' downright sickenin'!
[Verse 5]
F A E F#m
In due time we will see the far buttes lit by a flare
F A E F#m
I've seen your bravery and I will follow you there
D Amaj7 E F#m
and row through the nighttime, so healthy, gone healthy all of a sudden
D Amaj7 E F#m
In search of a midwife who can help me, who can help me
Bm E Bm E
Help me find my way back in
Bm E Bm E
and there are worries where I've been
[Verse 6]
C#m F#
and say, say, say, in the lee of the bay, don't be bothered!
C#m F#
Leave your troubles here where the tugboats shear the water from the water
G#m B A C#m
Flanked by furrows, curling back like a match held up to the newspaper
C#m F#
Emily, they'll follow your lead by the letter!
C#m F#
and I make this claim, and I'm not ashamed to say I knew you better!
G#m B A C#m
For what they've seen is just a beam of your sun that banishes winter
C#m F#
Let us go! Though we know it's a hopeless endeavor,
C#m F#
The ties that bind; they are barbed and spined and hold us close forever!
G#m B A C#m
Though there is nothing would help me come to grips with a sky that is gaping and yawning
G#m B A C#m
There is a song I woke with on my lips as you sailed your great ship towards the morning
[Verse 7]
C Em D Am
Come on home, the poppies are all grown knee-deep by now
C Em D Am
Blossoms all have fallen, and the pollen ruins the plow
C Em D Am
Peonies nod in the breeze, and while they wetly bow
C Em D Am
With hydrocephalitic listlessness, ants mop up their brows
C Em D Am
and everything with wings is restless, aimless, drunk and dour
C Em D Am
Butterflies and birds collide at hot, ungodly hours
C Em D Am
and my clay-coloured motherlessness rangily reclines
C Em D Am
Come on home, now! All my bones are dolorous with vines!
[Verse 8]
F A E F#m
Pa pointed out to me, for the hundredth time tonight
F A E F#m
The way the Ladle leads to a dirt-red bullet of light
D A E F#m
Squint skyward and listen, loving him, we move within his borders
D A E F#m
Just asterisms in the stars set order
D A E F#m
We could stand for a century, staring with our heads cocked
D A E F#m
In the broad daylight at this thing -- Joy! Landlocked!
D A E F#m
In bodies that don't keep, dumbstruck with the sweetness of being!
D A E F#m
'til we don't be told, take this, and eat this!
[Chorus]
C#m F#
Told: The meteorite is a source of the light, and the meteor's just what we see!
G#m B A C#m
and the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee!
C#m F#
and the meteorite's just what causes the light and the meteor's how it's perceived!
G#m B A C#m
and the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet and offering to thee!
If you're new to guitar, sorry, you're still gonna have to use bar chords (but shout out to you
for trying to take on a 12 minute song)
chords used (relative to capo)
C (032010)
Em (022000)
D (000232)
Am (002210)
F (133211)
A (002220)
E (022100)
F#m (244222)
Amaj7 (002120)
Bm (224432)
C#m (446654)
F# (244322)
G#m (466444)
B (224442)
quite a few! but less bar chords than you'd have to use in another tab, so it should be
a little nicer to your hands.
[Verse 1]
C Em D Am
The meadowlark and the chim-choo-ree and the sparrow
C Em D Am
Set to the sky in a flying spree, for the sport of the Pharaoh
C Em D Am
Little while later the Pharisees dragged a comb through the meadow
C Em D Am
Do you remember what they called up to you and me, in our window?
C Em D Am
There is a rusty light on the pines tonight, sun pouring wine, lord, or marrow
C Em D Am
Into the bones of the birches and the spires of the churches juttin' out from the shadow
C Em D Am
and the yoke and the axe, and the old smokestacks, and the bale and the barrow
C Em D Am
and everything sloped like it was dragged from the rope in the mouth of the south below
[Verse 2]
F A E F#m
We've seen those mountains kneeling, felten and grey
F A E F#m
We thought our very hearts would up and melt away
D Amaj7 E F#m
From the snow in the nighttime, just going, and going
D Amaj7 E F#m
and the stirrin' of windchimes, in the mornin', in the mornin'
Bm E Bm E
Helps me find my way back in
Bm E Bm E
From the place where I have been
[Verse 3]
C#m F#
and Emily, I saw you last night by the river!
C#m F#
I dreamed you were skippin' little stones across the surface of the water!
G#m B A C#m
Frowning at the angle where they were lost and slipped under forever
G#m B A C#m
In a mud-cloud, mica-spangled, like the sky'd been breathing on a mirror
C#m F#
Anyhow -- I sat by your side, by the water
C#m F#
You taught me the names of the stars overhead that I wrote down in my ledger
G#m B A C#m
Though all I knew of the rote universe were those Pleiades loosed in December
G#m B A C#m
I promised you I'd set them to verse so I'd always remember
[Chorus]
C#m F#
That the meteorite is a source of the light, and the meteor's just what we see
G#m B A C#m
and the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee
C#m F#
and the meteorite's just what causes the light and the meteor's how it's perceived
G#m B A C#m
and the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet and offering to thee
TINY INTERLUDE (still relative to capo)
e|---------0--------------------------------------------------|
B|------------4s2~--------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--4h5h6-----------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------|
[Verse 4]
Amaj7 Em D Am
You came and lay a cold compress upon the mess I'm in
C Em D Am
Threw the windows wide and cried, "Amen! Amen! Amen!"
C Em D Am
The whole world -- stopped! -- to hear you hollerin'
C Em D Am
Then you looked down and saw now what was happenin'
C Em D Am
The lines are fadin' in my kingdom
C Em D Am
Though I have never known a way to border 'em in
C Em D Am
So the muddy mouths of baboons and sows and the grouse and the horse and the hen
C Em D Am
Grope at the gate of the looming lake that was once a tidy pen
C Em D Am
and the mail is late and the great estates are not lit from within
C Em D Am
The talk in town's becomin' downright sickenin'!
[Verse 5]
F A E F#m
In due time we will see the far buttes lit by a flare
F A E F#m
I've seen your bravery and I will follow you there
D Amaj7 E F#m
and row through the nighttime, so healthy, gone healthy all of a sudden
D Amaj7 E F#m
In search of a midwife who can help me, who can help me
Bm E Bm E
Help me find my way back in
Bm E Bm E
and there are worries where I've been
[Verse 6]
C#m F#
and say, say, say, in the lee of the bay, don't be bothered!
C#m F#
Leave your troubles here where the tugboats shear the water from the water
G#m B A C#m
Flanked by furrows, curling back like a match held up to the newspaper
C#m F#
Emily, they'll follow your lead by the letter!
C#m F#
and I make this claim, and I'm not ashamed to say I knew you better!
G#m B A C#m
For what they've seen is just a beam of your sun that banishes winter
C#m F#
Let us go! Though we know it's a hopeless endeavor,
C#m F#
The ties that bind; they are barbed and spined and hold us close forever!
G#m B A C#m
Though there is nothing would help me come to grips with a sky that is gaping and yawning
G#m B A C#m
There is a song I woke with on my lips as you sailed your great ship towards the morning
[Verse 7]
C Em D Am
Come on home, the poppies are all grown knee-deep by now
C Em D Am
Blossoms all have fallen, and the pollen ruins the plow
C Em D Am
Peonies nod in the breeze, and while they wetly bow
C Em D Am
With hydrocephalitic listlessness, ants mop up their brows
C Em D Am
and everything with wings is restless, aimless, drunk and dour
C Em D Am
Butterflies and birds collide at hot, ungodly hours
C Em D Am
and my clay-coloured motherlessness rangily reclines
C Em D Am
Come on home, now! All my bones are dolorous with vines!
[Verse 8]
F A E F#m
Pa pointed out to me, for the hundredth time tonight
F A E F#m
The way the Ladle leads to a dirt-red bullet of light
D A E F#m
Squint skyward and listen, loving him, we move within his borders
D A E F#m
Just asterisms in the stars set order
D A E F#m
We could stand for a century, staring with our heads cocked
D A E F#m
In the broad daylight at this thing -- Joy! Landlocked!
D A E F#m
In bodies that don't keep, dumbstruck with the sweetness of being!
D A E F#m
'til we don't be told, take this, and eat this!
[Chorus]
C#m F#
Told: The meteorite is a source of the light, and the meteor's just what we see!
G#m B A C#m
and the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee!
C#m F#
and the meteorite's just what causes the light and the meteor's how it's perceived!
G#m B A C#m
and the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet and offering to thee!
