Based on Colin Meloy's live performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajkZVTEqh4Q.
If there's a mistake, let me know/fix it!
Watch the video/listen for the strumming pattern.
CHORDS:
G/D - x5543x
D4(?) - x54033
Em - x22000
Cmaj7 - x32000
D2 - x54030
C - x32010
Am - x02210
Bm - x24432
(Note: Colin seems to mute both E strings on all of his chords, but I'm not entirely sure so feel
free to do otherwise.)
G/D D4 Em Cmaj7 x2
G/D D4
G/Dray Jean was a river child
Em Cmaj7 G/D D4 Em Cmaj7
Born down by the river wild
G/D D4
Said hey, what ya wanna be?
Em Cmaj7
Nobody's gonna intervene
G/D D4 Em Cmaj7
[Chorus:]
D2 C
And she wants you but you won't do
D2 C
And it won't leave you alone
D2 C
And the rain falls on the wrong year
D2 C D2 G/D D4 Em Cmaj7
And it won't leave you alone, it won't leave you alone
G/D D4 Em Cmaj7
G/D D4
Could be that he's into you
Em Cmaj7 G/D D4 Em Cmaj7
Could be that the obverse is true
G/D D4
Struck down as a summer child
Em Cmaj7
Ten steps just to run a mile
G/D D4 Em Cmaj7
D2 C
And he wants you but you won't do
D2 C
And it won't leave you alone
D2 C
And the rain falls on the wrong year
D2 C D2 G/D D4 Em
And it won't leave you alone, it won't leave you alone
Cmaj7 G/D D4 Em Cmaj7
It won't leave you alone
Bm Am
Your spirit's weiling
Bm Am
Flesh is getting bored
Bm Am C
Speaker's blaring out some long forgotten chord
D4 G/D
Some misbegotten long forgotten chord
D4 Em Cmaj7 G/D D4 Em Cmaj7
G/D D4
Sing me some eidolon
Em Cmaj7 G/D D4 Em Cmaj7
And I'll sleep all the winter long
G/D D4
Till then I can only be,
Em Cmaj7
nobody's gonna intervene
G/D D4 Em Cmaj7
D2 C
And she wants you but you won't do
D2 C
And it won't leave you alone
D2 C
And the rain falls on the wrong year
D2 Cm D2 G/D D4 Em
And it won't leave you alone, it won't leave you alone
Cmaj7 G/D D4 Em
It won't leave you alone
Cmaj7 G/D D4 Em Cmaj7
It won't leave you alone
G/D D4 Em Cmaj7
G/D