All Delighted People by Sufjan Stevens, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

All Delighted People

Biography:

Sufjan Stevens (Born July 1, 1975) is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Petoskey, Michigan. He is known for his lyrically focused and instrumentally rich songs that often relate to faith and family. He has enjoyed wide critical success in the United States. He is considered part of the folk revival through indie pop, but his influences are very broad, including experimental electronic music, the jazz of Vince Guaraldi, and the academic minimalism of Steve Reich and Philip Glass.

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Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People

tabbed by: Rob
email: [email protected]

Verse picking pattern:

F#m
e|------5---------|
B|------2---2-----|
G|--2-----------2-|
D|4---4---4---4---|
A|----------------|
E|----------------|

F#m C#m
Tomorrow you’ll see it through
A Bm Bm7
The clouded out disguises put you in the room
E D
And though I wandered out alone
A E F#m A
A thousand lights abounded on our home

D A
And I remember every sound it made
E F#m A
The clouded out disguises and the grave
D A
So yeah I know I’m still afraid
E F#m A D
Of letting go of choices I have made

E
All Delighted people raise their hands
F#m C#m
And I took you by the sleeve
A Bm D
No other reason than to be your leading man
F#m C#m Cm
And you woke up with a fright
A Bm D
Our lives depended on the visions through the night
F#m C#m Cm
Oh we had always, Oh we had always wanted to before
A Bm F#
The hurricane inclined us, grappling on the floor

E
All Delighted people raise their hands

F#m C#m Cm
Still the force of nature spurns
A Bm F#
Ideas of strength and style abated by the burning basement

E
All Delighted people raise their hands

D A
And I’m not easily confused
E F#m A
The trouble with the storm inside us brews
D A
But I have so much to give

E F#m A
In spite of all the terror and abuse

(Instrumental)
D (horn notes: D D, A A, F# F#, rest rest)
A (horn notes: E, D C#, B A, F# E)
F# F#m (horn notes: fool around with F#, E, D)
B (horn notes: fool around with F#, E, A)

E
All Delighted people raise their hands

Picking pattern for next section:

D
e|----2-----2-----|----2-----2-----|
B|--3-----3-----3-|--3-----3-----3-|
G|2-----2-----2---|2-----2-----2---|
D|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|

D A
And the people bowed and prayed

Bm A
And what difference does it make

G D
It doesn’t matter anyway
Bm F#m E
The world surrounds us with its hate

(Short instrumental with the E…high E string 5 4 2 4)

F#m C#m
Hello darkness, my old friend
A Bm D
I’ve come to strangle you in spite of what you’d like
F#m C#m Cm
And don’t be rascal, don’t be a laughing dog…in spite of odds
A Bm F#
All I’m deciphering from the spirits in the light within

E
All delighted people raise their hands

F#m C#m Cm
In restless dreams I walked alone
A Bm F#
The clouded out disguises left me in a dream of lightness

E
All delighted people raise their hands

D A
And the people bowed and prayed
C#m Bm
To the neon god they made
D A
And what difference does it make?
C#m Bm
I love you so much anyway
A G
And on your breast I gently laid
D Bm
Your arms surround me in the lake
F#m E (high E string 5 4 2 4)
I am joined with you forever

(Instrumental)
D (horn notes: D D, A A, F# F#, rest rest)
A (horn notes: E, D C#, B A, F# E)
F# F#m (horn notes: fool around with F#, E, D)
B (horn notes: fool around with F#, E, A)

E
All delighted people raise their hands

D A
I’m not easily confused

F# F#m B (high E string – slide to 7, 9 7 5 7) x4
I feel alive I feel it glowing in the room

(Instrumental)
F# C#m A B (on high E string fool around with 2456, 9 7 9 7…etc.)

F# C#m A B
All delighted people raise their hands….

(Repeat indefinitely. Sufjan kinda fades out but you can end on F#)

note: add a second instrument for the layers (like the high E string melodies)