Artist: The Decemberists
Album: 5 Songs EP
Song: Shiny
(Made much easier with a capo on 2, but here's the open tuning version)
D/F#: 2 5 4 2 3 2 DaddE: - 5 7 9 7 5
DaddE DaddE
DaddE DaddE
By the bumper cars, in the pretty twining light,
I may have gone too far, I may have gone too much, too long, I'm a dull and witless boy
DaddE DaddE
In the after bars, think I was sullied by a dream
In the killing jar, you and me at war at arms, all falling in embrace
DaddE DaddE
/ /
Tell me why you lied, and what it is you do to keep your eyes all shiny
A tawny gypsy girl, sleeping blanketed by stars
Beneath the tilt-a-whirl, where we were coyly caught alone
All fumbling with your blouse
DaddE DaddE
Tell me why you lied, and what it is you do to keep your eyes all shiny
And in the rollercoaster din
By the parachutes in saddle shoes you break your shin
But I have never seen two eyes so shiny
DaddE DaddE
DaddE DaddE
And the sullen beery swine
Try to tangle you in sullen beery balls of twine
Have they ever seen two eyes so shiny
The boys in denim vests, smoking cigarettes between
Their bootblack fingertips, sweetly tipsy by the half-light
The light and the half-light
DaddE DaddE
Tell me why you lied and what it is you do to keep your eyes so shiny
DaddE DaddE
Oh, shiny... (repeat and fade)