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Artist: Josh Ritter Song: The Curse Album: So Runs the World Away Tabbed by: Don Tago Email: recebedou@yahoo.com Standard Tuning: EADGBe Chords used: EADGBE Am:002210 C: 032010 Dm:000231 F: 133211 Intro: [F - Dm - Am - C] x2 Verse 1 chords:
He Fopens his eyes, falls in Dmlove at first sight With the Amgirl in the Cdoorway What Fbeautiful lines, Dmhow full of life After Amthousands of years what a Cface to wake up to He Fholds back a sigh as she Dmtouches his arm She Amdusts off the bed where till Cnow he's been sleeping Under Fmiles of stone, the dried Dmfig of his heart Under Amscarab and bone starts Cback to its beating
Interlude 1: [F - Dm - Am - C] Verse 2: [use verse 1 chords] She carries him home in a beautiful boat He watches the scene from a porthole in stowage And he can hear all she says as she sits by his bed And one day his lips answer her in her own language The days quickly pass, he loves making her laugh The first time he moves it's her hair that he touches She asks 'Are you cursed?', he says 'I think that I'm cured' Then he talks of the Nile and the girls in Bulrushes Interlude 2: [F - Dm - Am - C] Verse 3: [use verse 1 chords] In New York he is laid in a glass covered case He pretends he is dead, people crowd 'round to see him But each night she comes 'round and the two wander down The halls of the tomb that she calls a museum Often he stops to rest, but then less and less Then it's her that looks tired, staying up asking questions He learns how to read from the papers that she Is writing about him and he makes corrections It's his face on her book, more and more come to look Families from Iowa, upper Westsider's Then one day it's too much, he decides to get up And as chaos ensues he walks outside to find her She's using a cane and her face looks too pale But she's happy to see him, as they walk he supports her She asks 'Are you cursed?', but his answers obscured In a sandstorm of flash bulbs and rowdy reporters Interlude 3: [F - Dm - Am - C] x5 Verse 4: [use verse 1 chords] Such reanimation, the two tour the nation He gets out of limos, he meets other women He speaks of her fondly, their nights in the museum But she's just one more rag now he's dragging behind him She stops going out, she just lies there in bed In hotels in whatever towns they are speaking Then her face starts to set, her hands start to fold Then one day the dried fig of her heart stops it's beating Interlude 4: [F - Dm - Am - C] x2 Verse 5: [use verse 1 chords] Long ago on the ship, she asked 'Why pyramids?' He said think of them as an immense invitation She asked 'Are you cursed?', he says 'I think that I'm cured' Then he kissed her and hoped that she'd forget that question