Elliott Smith - Sweet Adeline
Sweet Adeline by Elliot Smith off the album XO
An awesome song!!
Standard tuning
Intro:x2
e:----------------------------------------0-----2----
B:----------------------------------------1-----3----
G:----------------------------------------0-----2----
D:--5--4--2--0--3--2--0-------------------2---0------
A:-----------------------3--6--5--3--1--3------------
E:---------------------------------------------------
Verse:
Bb Eb D G G7
Cut this picture into you and me
Bb Eb D G G7
Burn it backwards kill this history
Bb Eb D G G7
Make it over make it stay away
Bb Eb D
Or hate'll sing the ending that love started to say
Back to the intro (1 time through)
Verse 2:
Bb Eb D
There's a kid a floor below me saying brother can you
G G7
spare
Bb Eb D G G7
Sunshine for a brother old man winter's in the air
Bb Eb D G G7
Walked me up a story asking how you are
Bb Eb D Told me not to
worry you were just a shooting star
Repeat intro again then....breakout into the most triumphant
chorus...sing along if you dare.
Chorus:
Eb Bb F G# C# C# E
Sweet adeline
Eb Bb F G# C# C# E
Sweet adeline
Eb Bb F G# C# C# E
My clementine
Eb Bb F G# B B D D
Sweet adeline
Repeat intro once more.
Verse 3:
Bb Eb D
Its a picture perfect evening and i'm staring down the
G G7
sun
Bb Eb D G G7
Fully loaded deaf and dumb and done
Bb Eb D G G7
Waiting for sedation to disconnect my head
Bb Eb D G G7
Or any situation where I'm better off than dead
End with playing the G chord over and over until the music's comes to a
hault.