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Jason Isbell - Elephant (Chord)
Album: Southeastern (2013)
Submitter: NixonTheGrouch (0) on 6/14/13 7 comments
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Song: Elephant
Artist: Jason Isbell
Album: Southeastern
Tabbed by: Bryce Kujala, bryce at brycekujala.com

Capo IV

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-----|

(Please don't tell my college music professors if I got any of those chord name wrong.)

It sounds like he is doing some hammer-ons with the A string on the Em7 and the low E string on the G6.  
Listen to the record for the timing. Let me know if I got anything wrong.

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 f**ked 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
b***h about the weekend crowd,
    Cadd9             Dsus2         Em7    G6   A7sus4 
and try to ignore the elephant somehow
    Em7    G6   A7sus4
somehow

Verse:
She said Andy you crack me up,
Seagrams in a coffee cup,
sharecropper eyes and her hair almost all gone.
When she was drunk she made cancer jokes,
she made up her own doctor's notes,
surrounded by her family, I saw that she was dying alone.

Chorus:
I'd sing her classic country songs
and she'd get high and sing along.
She don't have much voice to sing with now

We'd burn these joints in effegy,
cry about what we used to be,
and try to ignore the elephant somehow.
Somehow


Chorus:
I buried her a thousand times,
giving up my place in line,
but I don't give a damn about that now

There's one thing that's real clear to me,
no one dies with dignity.
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow.
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow.
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow.
Somehow.
Somehow. 
 Comments (click here to add a non-facebook comment)
I'm fairly certain it should be capoed on the fifth fret, but other than that it seems spot on, good job!
-Ellery | 6/17/2013
Thanks for the feedback! It's quite possible that my guitar was out of tune after I put on the capo, so I'll check that when I get home and adjust the tab accordingly.
-NixonTheGrouch | 6/17/2013
Great job - Capo is definitely on 4 not 5. Why the asterisks? He sang the words so please write the words.
-Amateur39 | 1/14/2014
Oops, never adjusted the capo. Fixed now. Thanks! Oh, and the swear filtering is the site, not me! :-)
-NixonTheGrouch | 1/15/2014
Had a guy play my stage on the San Antonio Rodeo this year do this song and it was so well done, I had to go look the song up and listen to Isbell's version. What a great artist he is! I look forward to checking the tab against the song
-lmofle | 3/7/2014
Great job, thanks a lot. Greetings from Denmark
-thrax | 11/10/2014
On the production version it's in key of Am--capo on 5th fret. On the demo version which is included on Southeastern, Jason performs the song in the key of Gm- capo on 3rd fret. And if you watch his video SiriusXM/Outlaw Country he does the song in G#m---capo on the 4th fret. So your both right. Any way you slice it though--he sounds great and the song is powerful.
-nellard | 3/8/2015
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