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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.
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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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