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# MYSTERY (Emily Saliers) ----------------------- [The chords written down here are Amy's, more or less. She plays either a 12-string or high-strung guitar (which is basically a 12-string with the bigger strings removed). Some fingerings are at the end.] [Emily's guitar is tuned DADGAD, so most of her chords actually have A and D notes in them: G becomes G, A becomes A7sus4, Em becomes Em7(4), etc. Buy the _Swamp_Ophelia_ songbook if you want Emily's chord fingerings.] [Each chord, or pair of chords joined by hyphens, is one 6/8 measure.]
Dmaj9[intro] G (DHan

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ded Dsus4down or Dmade

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by Dsus9hand) Dmaj9 G D

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Gm D Dmaj9Each time you'd pull down the Gdriveway I wasn't sure Dwhen I

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would Dsus4see you agDain Yours was a Em7twisted, blind-sided highGway

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A7sus4 No matter which Droad yo

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u took Gmthen D
Oh you Dmaj9set up your place in my thoGughts Moved in and made my Dthinki

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ng crowDsus4ded D Now we're out in the bEm7ack with the barking dogsD/F# My heart the red Gsun, your heart the moon A7sus4clouded A7
I could go Gcrazy on a night like toAnight D - D/C# Gmaj7/B When summer's beginning to give up her fight And every thougGht's a possibilityA And voices are Dheard,

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but D/C#nothing is D7/Cseen Why do you Gspend this time with meA May be an Gequ

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al AmysteryD

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Dsus4 D
So what is love then Is it dictated or chosen (handed down or made by hand) Does it sing like the hymns of a thousand years Or is it just pop emotion (handed down or made by hand) And if it ever was there, and it left Does it mean it was never true And to exist it must elude Is that why I think these things of you But I could go crazy on a night like tonight When summer's beginning to give up her fight And every thought's a possibility And voices are heard, but nothing is seen Why do you spend this time with me May be an equal mystery
Oh, but you like the C9taste of danger It C9shines like sugar oDn yo

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ur lDsus4ips D And you like to stC9and in the line of fiC9re Just to show yEm7ou can shoot straight from your D7/Chip There must be a Gthousand things you would Gmdie for D - D/C# Gmaj7/B I can hardly think of two But not everything Em7is better spoken alD/F#oud Not when I'm tGalking to you A7sus4 A7
Oh, the Dmaj9pirate gets the ship and the girl toGnight Breaks a bottle to chrDiste

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n herDsus4 D Basking in the Em7exploits of her thiefG

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A7sus4 She's a very goDod li

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stenerGm D
And maybe that's Dmaj9all that we need is to Gmeet in the middle Of impossiDbil

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ityDsus4 D Standing at oEm7pposite poles Equal Gpartner

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s in a Amystery D

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Dsus4 D We're standing at oEm7pposite poles G - A D - Dsus4 D - Dsus4 D - Gm D. Equal partners in a mystery
AMY'S CHORDS: Dmaj9: x00220 G: 320033 Gm: xx0333 A7sus4: x02030 D/C#: x40232 Gmaj7/B: x20032 D7/C: x30232 C9: x32330 (actually x32333, but can _you_ play that?) (The rest should be pretty standard.) If you want to get that jangly 12-string kind of sound on an ordinary 6-string, put a capo at the 5th fret and transpose everything to the key of A. Then, try using these for some of your chord fingerings: Amaj9 D A As2s4 A As2s4 x02100 x00230 x07650 - x07700 x07650 - x07700 [intro] Amaj9 D A Dm(9) A x02100 x00230 x02220 - x03230 x02220 [intro] Later in the song, the only suggestions I have are 32320x for G9, and x02220 x02120 x00252 (A Amaj7 D(9)) instead of A A/G# Dmaj7/F#. - Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com