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Colette - Langhorne Slim
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Tuning: Standard
Capo on 2
Notes concerning chord shapes at the bottom of the page.
Intro:
Fadd11*
Fadd11
Fadd11
Verse 1:
Fadd11
All I wanted was a good song and a fair friend
Fadd11
You came along just then
Fadd11
You gave me crazy love and you whispered,
"You got a bottle and nobody that your missin'."
Fadd11
I wasn't much of a fighter or a lover
Fadd11
You said, "Don't get excited, but take cover"
Fadd11
We stepped into the light to pictures of each other
Some were in black and white, the others were in color
Chorus:
Fadd11
Colette, I knew the second we met, you'd go to my head
we took a breath and leapt into the atmosphere
Fadd11
and I guess it was something you said, we'll rest when we're dead
now it must seem pretty clear
That I love you. Yes, I do.
(repeat intro and verse 1, lyrics are the same, sing one octave higher)
Break:
**
(repeat x8)
Chorus (2x as fast as previously played)
Fadd11
Fadd11
Fadd11
Colette, I knew the second we met, you'd go to my head
we took a breath and leapt into the atmosphere
Fadd11
and I guess it was something you said, we'll rest when we're dead
now it must seem pretty clear
/G
That I love you.
* Fadd11 is used as a passing tone, hammer your pinky onto an A# and then
immediately release back into F. Chord shape for Fadd11 is simply:
-1-
-1-
-3-
-3-
-0-
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** the D5 of the break is used as a passing tone, just release your fingers from
the C/G shape and pick the A and D strings. Part is so fast that it won't be
noticeable and sounds correct in the context.
Note concerning chord shapes:
As with many of Folk musicians, Langhorne Slim uses a slight variation in chord
shapes. The chords will usually feel like they are shaped like C, that is:
-0-
-1-
-0-
-2-
-3-
-0-
To form an F Chord, all you would have to do would be to move your 2 fingers from
the D and A Strings to the G and D strings, and mute (or don't play) the E
strings. So F would be formed like this:
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-1-
-2-
-3-
-0-
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similarly, G would be played like this:
-3-
-0-
-0-
-0-
-2-
-3-
Note that your pinky is on the high G.
Another note is that for this song, Langhorne plays C with the added 5th, so just
keep your pinky like its playing G and your good to go.
The final chord of this song is C/G, the G is the lower G, not the higher one, so
the chord would be:
-0-
-1-
-0-
-2-
-3-
-3-
This is the same shape of C/G used in the break section.
Forming these chords is far easier then explaining how to :], but I hope this
helped some people who are new to folk chord shapes.