Song: Elephant
Artist: Jason Isbell
Album: Southeastern
All credit for this tab should go to Bryce Kujala. I simply added the rest of the chords.
Capo 4 for the live version, Capo 5 for the album version
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-----|
Intro:
Em7 G6 A7sus4
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
Verse2:
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:
Cadd9 Dsus2
I'd sing her classic country songs
G6 Dsus2/F# Em7
and she'd get high and sing along
Cadd9 Dsus2 Em7
She don't have much voice to sing with now
Cadd9 Dsus2
We'd burn these joints in effigy,
G6 Dsus2/F# Em7
cry about what we used to be,
Cadd9 Dsus2 Em7 G6 A7sus4
and try to ignore the elephant somehow
Em7
Somehow
Chorus:
Cadd9 Dsus2
I buried her a thousand times,
G6 Dsus2/F# Em7
giving up my place in line,
Cadd9 Dsus2 Em7
but I don't give a damn about that now
Cadd9 Dsus2
There's one thing that's real clear to me,
G6 Dsus2/F# Em7
no one dies with dignity
Cadd9 Dsus2 Em7 G6 A7sus4
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
Cadd9 Dsus2 Em7 G6 A7sus4
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
Cadd9 Dsus2 Em7 G6 A7sus4
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
Em7
Somehow
Em7
Somehow
