Song: The blade (Live acoustic)
Artist: Ashley Monroe
Composers: Marc Beeson, Jamie Floyd & Allen Shamblin
Live acoustic version for 'World Cafe'
Tabbed by DJ
1st Nov 2015
CAPO: 2nd fret (Sounds in the key of F#)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
E = 022100 B = x24442
Esus4 = 022200 Asus2 = x02200
A = 320003 C#m = x24432
Amaj7 = x02120 Bsus4 = x24452
A5add#11 = x02240 Amaj7sus2 = x02100
Video clip with acoustic guitar and violin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2Jof3GWUs
The guitarist throws in a few subtle chord varitions,
which I've shown, the oddest is his maj7's in Verse 4,
not sure it really works myself, I'd stick to an A if
you don't like those. With the add#11, he only appears
to throw this in once, whereas, on the album that's a
key figure on piano. His sus4's are pretty random too,
so just pick and choose which you want to use or not.
You could play Verses 1 and 4 just like Verse 2,
which has the simplest chords.
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[Intro]
E Esus4 E E Esus4 E
||: / / / / | / / / / :|| [x2]
[Verse 1]
E Esus4 E Esus4 E
I let your love in, I have the scar,
E Esus4 E
I felt the ra - zor ...against my heart,
A A5add#11 A E
I thought we were ...both in all the way,
B
But you caught it by the handle,
Asus2 B E Esus4 E Esus4 E
And I ...caught it by the blade!
[Verse 2]
E
You said, "Good - bye, ...it's not the end,
E
And, if you need me, ...I'm still your friend"
A E
Well, that's easy ...for you to say,
B
'Cause you caught it by the handle,
Asus2 B E E4 E
And I caught it by ...the blade!
[Verse 3]
C#m A B C#m
That's the risk you run when you love, when you love,
B C#m A B B4 B
And you give it all you've ...got to give,
C#m A B
Knowing all a - long there's a chance,
C#m B C#m A
There's a chance ...you'll reach, and they won't,
B Bsus4 B
You'll bleed, and they ...don't!
[Verse 4]
E Esus4 E Esus4
For you, it's o - ver, for me, it's not,
E Esus4 E
I kept try - ing, and you just stopped,
Amaj7sus2 Amaj7 Amaj7sus2 Amaj7
Now I know how...
E
...You can sound so brave,
B
'Cause you caught it by the handle, baby,
Asus2 B E Esus4 E Esus4 E
And I caught it by ...the blade!
[Verse 5]
C#m A B C#m
That's the risk you run when you love, when you love,
B C#m A B Bsus4 B
And you give it all you've ...got to give,
C#m A B
Knowing all a - long there's a chance,
C#m B C#m A
There's a chance ...you'll reach, and they won't,
B Bsus4 B
You'll bleed, and they ...don't!
[Coda]
A E
I thought we were ...both in all the way,
B Bsus4 B
But you caught it by the handle,
Asus2 B E Esus4 E
And I ...caught it by the blade,
E E4 E B
Humm -umm, you caught it by the handle, baby,
Asus2 B E Esus4 E E
And I ...caught it by ...the blade!
