Standard tuning.
(To make fingerwork easier: put capo on second fret to make it an F# chord but with an E
fingering. Get it? In which case you'd be fingering E, A, E, A B, c#m, A, B... for
the beginning of the verse)
**Note: When playing the final chord of the chorus, I believe the artist's tuning
creates a B chord with a Major 7th added, or Major B7 chord (not a dominant 7, which instead
would add a minor 7th). At this moment, either a B, a Major B7, or an A# minor chord
sound pretty good to me.
[Intro]
F#, B, F# F#
F#, B
F# B F# B
F B C# C#
[Verse]
F# B F#
Oh I was sent to find the lonesome place
B C#
Where I was lost but left to trace
D#m B C#
By carving riddles on the lonesome vine
F# B F#
Oh but rumor has it that I wasn't born
B C#
I just walked in one frosty morn
D#m B C#
Into the vision of some vacant mind
[Chorus]
B C# F# B **(optional: add 7, I think it's heard in Matsson's tuning.)
Oh once I held a pony by its flagging mane
B C# F# B
And once I called the shadow in the turning game
D#m C# B C#
But I will fight this stranger that you should fear
D#m C# B F#
So I won't be a burden of tomorrow dear
[Interlude]
F#, B, F#, B
[Verse]
F# B F#
Aww Xavier's on the border of the sun
B C#
Swings on the chambers of your guns
D#m B C#
And tries to shoot the chord and light the path
F# B F#
Aww but hell I'm just a blind man on the plains
B C#
I drink my water when it rains
D#m B C#
And live by chance among the lightning strikes
[Chorus]
B C# F# B
Oh once I held a glacier to an open flame
B C# F# B
And once I felt like wildcat in the fallen game
D#m C# B C#
But I will fight this stranger that you should fear
D#m C# B F#
So I won't be a burden of tomorrow dear
F#, B, F# F#
F#, B
[Outro]
B C# F# B
Oh the singer's on the edge to feed the canyon's mouth
B C# F# D#m
They will go on forever til they sing you out of time
D#m C# B C#
But I will fight this stranger that you should fear
D#m C# B F#
So I won't be a burden of tomorrow dear
