This guy is the most underrated guy I've ever seen/heard.
This song sounds best tuned a whole step down (like the album).
Sounds good a half step down.
In standard it may be a bit high for us baritones to sing along.
Intro:
G G/E
e|---3--|-3---|
A|---0--|-0---|
G|---0--|-0---|
D|---0--|-0---|
A|---2--|-2---|
E|---3--|-0---|
G(three barrs) G/E
G G/E
C/G
e|--0--|
B|--1--|
G|--0--|
D|--2--|
A|--3--|
E|--3--|
G C/G Em C/G Em
He has a flowering spade growing out of his chest
D D7
full of magic and healing,
G C/G Em C/G Em
She is a flowering spade and she moves and she sways
D D7
you can see that she feels it.
--For the next section play very percussively It looks something like this--
C G A Bm
e|----x--x-x-x-|--5--x-x-x--|-----x-x-x--|-7-x-7-7-|
B|----5--x-x-x-|--5--x-x-x--|--7--x-x-x--|-7-x-7-7-|
G|----5--x-x-x-|--5--x-x-x--|--7--x-x-x--|-7-x-7-7-|
D|-------x-x-x-|------------|------------|---------|
A|--3----------|------------|5-----------|---------|
E|-------------|3-----------|------------|---------|
Play the bm* like this
e|--2--|
B|--3--|
G|--4--|
D|--4--|
A|--2--|
E|-----|
C G A Bm
She's off to dance with the goat boys,
C G Bm* D7
He's off to sail through your wide open ocean.
C G A Bm
She learned to sing from a siren,
C G A Bm*
He learned to swim from a drop in the water.
G C/G Em C/G Em
There are words, there are signs, close your eyes, there is magic
D D7
inside you.
G C/G Em C/G Em
Hear this box in your mind, building frames for to trace your
D D7
desires.
C G A Bm
She learned to cook from a sailor,
C G Bm* D7
He learned to cry in an elephant circus.
C G A Bm
She found a recipe for flying,
C G Bm* D7
He's growing flowers to understand dying.
G G/E
Re-Joyce...
Then if you want to for the Humming section you can do it over the verse
G G/E C/F Em C/F Em D D7
And the oop ba badada stuff you can do to percussive progression
C G A Bm
Hope you like it... Cheers!