I'm a huge fan of The National, but their songs are not easy to play or to cover
(most of them at least), neither to figure out actually :). The other chords
available here are based on a live show from the National and so are accurate to
the way the band plays the song, but they aren't really that much fun to play on
an acoustic guitar. I just tabbed my own version in about
10 minutes with pretty much only simple chords. The key sounds right, and I do
improvise a couple C variations when I play it that go nicely along with the song
so no, it is not accurate to the original way of playing it! Just play or fiddle
around with it and tell me what you think. Enjoy!
PS: the tab may miss a chord or two so if you feel like something is missing, it probably is :)
Capo: 2nd or 3rd fret (for me, adapt depending on your voice)
Tuning: standard
Chords used:
G: 320033 or 320003
C: 032010
C2: 030010 (don't know the name of this chord)
C/E: 020010
The song with the chords:
[Verse]
G C C2 C/E G
Be still for a second while I try and try to pin your flowers on
C C2 C/E
Nana na na
G
Can you carry my drink I have everything else
C
I can tie my tie all by myself
G C C2 C/E
I’m getting tied, I’m forgetting why
G C
Oh we’re so disarming darling, everything we did believe
G C C2 C/E
is diving diving diving diving off the balcony
[Chorus]
G C C2
Tired and wired we ruin too easy
G C
sleep in our clothes and wait for winter to leave
G C C2
G
Hold ourselves together with our arms around the stereo for hours
C C2 C/E
Nana na na
G
While it sings to itself or whatever it does
C
when it sings to itself of its long lost loves
G C C2 C/E
I’m getting tied, I’m forgetting why
[Pre-Chorus]
G C C2
Tired and wired we ruin too easy
G C C2
sleep in our clothes and wait for winter to leave
G C
but I’ll be with you behind the couch when they come
C2 C/E G C
C/E
on a different day just like this one
[Chorus]
G
We’ll stay inside til somebody finds us
C
do whatever the TV tells us
G C C2
stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz for days
C/E G
We’ll stay inside til somebody finds us
C
do whatever the TV tells us
G C
stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz
[Bridge]
C2 C/E G
so worry not
C
all things are well
C2 C/E G
we’ll be alright
C C2 C/E
we have our looks and perfume
[Chorus]
G
stay inside til somebody finds us
C
do whatever the TV tells us
G C
stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz
C2 C/E G
so worry not
C
all things are well
C2 C/E G
we’ll be alright
C C2 G
we have our looks and perfume on
