Anais Mitchell - Wedding Song
capo 7, chords relative to capo
INTRO: E7
EURYDICE:
E
Lover, tell me if you can
Who’s gonna buy the wedding bands?
G6 E
Times being what they are
G6 Asus2 E
Hard and getting harder all the time
ORPHEUS:
E
Lover, when I sing my song
All the rivers sing along
G6 E
And they’re gonna break their banks for me
To lay their gold around my feet
All the flashing in the pan, all the fashion for your hand
G6 Asus2 E
The river's gonna give us the wedding bands
EURYDICE:
E
Lover, tell me, if you’re able
Who’s gonna lay the wedding table?
G6 E
Times being what they are
G6 Asus2 E
Dark and getting darker all the time
ORPHEUS:
E
Lover, when I sing my song
All the trees gonna sing along
G6 E
And bend their branches down to me
To lay their fruit around my feet
The almond and the apple
And the sugar from the maple
G6 Asus2 E
The trees gonna lay the wedding table
INSTRUMENTAL:
E Emaj7 E Esus4 E
|----------------|0---------------|----------------|----------------|
|0---------4-----|----------0-----|----------------|0---------------|
|------1---------|----------------|2-----1---2-----|----------------|
|--2-----------2-|------2-------2-|--2-----------2-|------2---2---2-|
|----2-------2---|----2-------2---|----2-------2---|----2-------2---|
|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|
E Emaj7 E Esus4 Esus2
|----------------|0---------------|----------------|----------------|
|0---------4-----|----------0-----|----------------|----------------|
|------1---------|----------------|2-----1---2-----|----------1-----|
|--2-----------2-|------2-------2-|--2-----------2-|4-----4---------|
|----2-------2---|----2-------2---|----2-------2---|----2-------2---|
|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|
E Esus4 E Esus2
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|------------0---|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|2---------1-----|----------------|------1---------|
|2-----2---2-----|------2-------2-|2-----2---4-----|4---------4-----|
|----2-------2---|----2-------2---|----2-------2---|----2-------2---|
|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|
G6 Asus2 E
EURYDICE:
E
Lover, tell me, when we’re wed
Who’s gonna make the wedding bed?
G6 E
Times being what they are
G6 Asus2 E
Hard and getting harder all the time
ORPHEUS:
E
Lover, when I sing my song
All the birds gonna sing along
G6 E
And they’ll come flying 'round to me
To lay their feathers at my feet
And we’ll lie down in eiderdown,
A pillow ’neath our heads
G6 Asus2 E Emaj7
The birds gonna make the wedding bed
G6 Asus2 E Emaj7
And the trees gonna lay the wedding table
G6 Asus2 E Emaj7
And the rivers gonna give us the wedding bands
G6 Asus2 E
Chords used:
E: 022100
E7: 022130
G6: 320000
Asus2: x02200
Emaj7: 022140
Notes:
-I transcribed this from a youtube video and she plays it in B. I believe the studio
recording is in C, which would mean capo 8 with these chord shapes.
-fairly basic travis picking pattern; do whatever sounds right to you.
-Eurydice is the female part and Orpheus is the male part.
-transcribed by robertdanielmaher (at) gmail (com)
