Frank Turner - The armadillo
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---Frank Turner
---The Armadillo (Flanders & Swann Cover)
---Mittens EP
Here's a fairly simplified version of how Frank plays this great song.
Feel free to correct any mistakes, I'm still a rookie at this :)
EADGBe
A7 x02020
Am x02210
Am7 x02010
B7 x21202
Bm x24432
Bm#5 x20033
C x32010
C/B x20010
D xx0323
Dadd4/F# 2x0033
Em 022000
F# 244322
G 320033
G5 3x0033
--Riff:
e|------------------------------------------------------------------
B|----------3---3---3---3---3---3---1-----------1h3p1---------------
G|----------0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---------------0-------0---
D|------0-----------------------------------2---------------2-------
A|------------------2---2---2---2---0-------------------------------
E|--3-------2---2---------------------------------------------------
--Interlude:
e|-------------------------------------------
B|--1------0---------------------------------
G|--0------0-------2-------0--------0----2---
D|-----------------2-------2-------2/4---0---
A|------2------2-------2-------2-------------
E|-------------------------------------------
[Riff x2]
G5 Dadd4/F# Bm#5 Am7 D
I was taking compass bearings for the Ordanance Survey
G5 Dadd4/F# Bm#5 A7 Am7 D
On an army training camp on Salisbury plain.
I had Bmpacked up my theoEmdolite, I was Amcalling it a Dday
B7When I heard a voice that sang a sad reEmfrain:
[Interlude]
G5 Dadd4/F# Bm#5 Am7 D
Oh my darling armadillo, let me tell you of my love,
G5 Dadd4/F# Bm#5 A7 Am7 D
Listen to my armadillo roundelay.
Be my Bmfellow on my Empillow underAmneath this weeping Dwillow,
Be my Cdarling C/BarmadAm7illo Dall the day.
[Riff x2]
G5 Dadd4/F# Bm#5 Am7 D
I was somewhat disconcerted by this curious affair
G5 Dadd4/F# Bm#5 A7 Am7 D
For a single armadillo, you alone,
On BmSalisbury plain in Emsummer is comAmparitively Drare
And a B7pair of them is practically unkEmnown.
Drawn Bmby that mellow Emsolo, there I F#followed on my Bmbike
To Emdiscover Am7what these Emarmadillo B7lovers might be Emlike.
[Interlude]
G5 Dadd4/F# Bm#5 Am7 D
Oh my darling armadillo how delightful it would be
G5 Dadd4/F# Bm#5 A7 Am7 D
If for us those silver wedding bells should chime.
Let the Bmorange blossoms Embillow, you need Amonly say I Dwill, oh
Be my Cdarling C/BarmadAm7illo Dall the time.
[Riff x2]
Then I Bmsaw them in a Emhollow on a F#yellow muddy Bmbank;
An EmarmaAm7dillo Emsinging to an B7armour-plated Emtank.
--Simply pick the following notes throughout this next part:
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|--4--------------------4--4--------------------4---
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Should I tell him gaunt and rusting with the willow tree above,
This abandoned on-manoeuvres is the object of your love?
I Bmleft him to his Emsinging, I cycled F#home without a Bmpause.
EmNever Am7tell a Emman the truth about the B7one that he aEmdores.
G5 Dadd4/F# Bm#5 Am7 D
On the breeze that followed sunset I could hear that sad refrain
G5 Dadd4/F# Bm#5 A7 Am7 D
Singing willow, willow, willow down the way.
And I Bmseem to hear it Emstill oh vive lAm'amour, vive l'armadilDlo,
Be my CdarlingC/B armaAm7dillo Dall the Gday.
Be my CdarlingC/B armaAm7dillo Dall the Gday.