Artist: Gretchen Peters
Song: Pretty things
Album: Blackbirds
Composers: Gretchen Peters & Ben Glover
Tabbed by: DJ
11th Feb 2015
CAPO: 5th fret (Sounds in the key of G)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
D = xx0232 D4 = xx0233 D/F# = xx4x32
E/D = xx0454 Am = x02210 Am/B = x2x21x
G = xx5433 Am7 = x02010 Am/C = x3x21x
G6 = xx5430 E4/D = xx0455 *G = 320033
Dsus2 = xx0230 D/E = xx2x32 G/A = x00033
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[Intro]
D E/D G D
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D E/D G G6 D
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[Verse 1]
D
I knew a girl who said that beauty kills,
E/D
Dulled the pain with wine and pills,
G G6 D Dsus2
Took that slow ride down the hill-- ...to nowhere,
D
She said, 'Pompeii crumbled, and Athens fell,
E/D
Heathens stormed the citadel,
G D D4 D
A girl like me ain’t got a chance in hell ...against ‘em!'
[Chorus]
D Am Am7
Oh---, ...pretty things----,
(Pretty things-----!)
G D Dsus2
Pretty things gone ...to ruin----,
(Pretty things!)
D Am Am7
Oh---, ...pretty things----,
(Pretty things-----!)
G D Dsus2
Pretty things gone ...to ruin----!
[Verse 2]
D E/D
Rained three days, when we awoke ...sun came out and the levee broke,
G D Dsus2
Like some cruel and cosmic joke God’s ...playing,
D E/D E4/D
I don’t pretend that I believe, I know there ain’t no guaran - tees,
G D D4 D
Still morning finds me on my knees ...and praying!
[Chorus]
D Am Am7
Oh---, ...pretty things----,
(Pretty things-----!)
G D
Pretty things gone ...to ruin----, Dsus2
(Pretty things!)
D Am Am7
Oh---, ...pretty things----,
(Pretty things-----!)
G D Dsus2
Pretty things gone ...to ruin----!
[Break]
D D/E D/F# Am Am/B Am/C
Oo--, oo--, oo---! Oo--, oo--, oo---!
*G G/A *G D Dsus2 D
Oo--, oo--, oo---! Oo------------!
D D/E D/F# Am Am/B Am/C
Oo--, oo--, oo---! Oo--, oo--, oo---!
*G G/A *G D Dsus2
Oo--, oo--, oo---! Oo------------!
[Verse 3]
D
Come the flood, you build an ark,
E/D
Come the night, you curse the dark,
G D Dsus2
Inside your broken heart you bear ...the crosses,
D E/D
Some of us have got it made, some of us have more than paid,
G D D4 D
We’re all marching in this slow parade ...of losses!
[Chorus ]
D Am Am7
Oh---, ...pretty things----,
(Pretty things-----!)
G D Dsus2
Pretty things gone ...to ruin----,
(Pretty things!)
D Am Am7
Oh---, ...pretty things----,
(Pretty things-----!)
G D Dsus2
Pretty things gone ...to ruin----,
(Pretty things!)
[Chorus ]
D Am Am7
Oh-- oh--, ...pretty things----,
(Pretty things-----!)
G D Dsus2
Pretty things gone ...to ruin----,
(Pretty thing!)
D Am Am7
Oh---, ...pretty things----,
(Pretty things-----!)
G D Dsus2
Pretty things gone...to ruin----,
(Pretty things!)
[Coda]
D D/E D/F# Am Am/B Am/C *G G/A *G D Dsus2 D
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D D/E D/F# Am Am/B Am/C *G G/A *G D
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