Song: Elephant Artist: Jason Isbell Album: Southeastern Tabbed by: Bryce Kujala, [email protected] Capo IV Chords (relative to capo): Em7 G6 A7sus4 Cadd9 Dsus2 Dsus2/F# e|---0---0-----0------0------0--------0-----| B|---3---3-----3------3------3--------3-----| G|---0---0-----0------0------2--------2-----| D|---0---0-----2------2------0--------0-----| A|---2---2-----0------3------x--------x-----| E|---0---3-----x------x------x--------2-----| (Please don't tell my college music professors if I got any of those chord name wrong.) It sounds like he is doing some hammer-ons with the A string on the Em7 and the low E string on the G6. Listen to the record for the timing. Let me know if I got anything wrong. [Intro] Em7 G6 A7sus4 x4 [Verse 1] Em7 G6 A7sus4 She said Andy you're better than your past, Em7 G6 A7sus4 winked at me and drained her glass, Em7 G6 A7sus4 Em7 G6 A7sus4 cross-legged on the barstool, like nobody sits anymore. Em7 G6 A7sus4 She said Andy you're taking me home, Em7 G6 A7sus4 but I knew she planned to sleep alone. Em7 G6 A7sus4 Em7 G6 A7sus4 I'd carry her to bed and sweep up the hair from the floor [Chorus] Cadd9 Dsus2 If I had fucked her before she got sick G6 Dsus2/F# Em7 I'd never hear the end of it Cadd9 Dsus2 Em7 she don't have the spirit for that now Cadd9 Dsus2 We drink these drinks and laugh out loud, G6 Dsus2/F# Em7 bitch about the weekend crowd, Cadd9 Dsus2 Em7 G6 A7sus4 and try to ignore the elephant somehow Em7 G6 A7sus4 somehow Em7 G6 A7sus4 x2 [Verse] Em7 G6 A7sus4 She said Andy you crack me up, Em7 G6 A7sus4 Seagram's in a coffee cup, Em7 G6 A7sus4 Em7 G6 A7sus4 sharecropper eyes and her hair almost all gone. Em7 G6 A7sus4 When she was drunk she made cancer jokes, Em7 G6 A7sus4 she made up her own doctor's notes, Em7 G6 A7sus4 Em7 G6 A7sus4 surrounded by her family, I saw that she was dying alone. [Chorus] I'd sing her classic country songs and she'd get high and sing along. She don't have much voice to sing with now We'd burn these joints in effigy, cry about what we used to be, and try to ignore the elephant somehow. Somehow [Chorus] I buried her a thousand times, giving up my place in line, but I don't give a damn about that now There's one thing that's real clear to me, no one dies with dignity. We just try to ignore the elephant somehow. We just try to ignore the elephant somehow. We just try to ignore the elephant somehow. Somehow. Somehow.
