Elegy for Elsabet chords by The Weakerthans

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Intro 1

Verse 1
D 
So the fields  (D major) are stubble,
the garden's done
G 
Where the scary  (G major) scarecrow stands
Em 
Sees her hold (E minor) ing up
horizons with her hands
G 
D 
 (G major)  (D major) 

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Verse 2

She's so tired of

reading daddy's lips

That essay on a frown

Watch her memories

of human voices drown

Verse 3
A 
Let horsey bray  (A major) break between
D 
G 
the thunder  (D major) boom  (G major) 
A 
Make grasses' swish  (A major) meet
D 
G 
the crickets' ring  (D major)  (G major) 
A 
D 
Let every sound  (A major) consecrate our whispering  (D major) 
G 
 (G major) The words that Betta never

Interlude 1

heard

So the back

Verse 4

lanes tie the city down

A mess of dirty string

Winter dies the same way every spring

Verse 5
D 
As the sky  (D major) tries on its uniform
G 
Of  (G major) turned off TV gray
Em 
And the ways  (E minor) we watched her
watch us walk away
G 
 (G major) 

Verse 6
A 
Let every rain  (A major) clatter down
D 
G 
at groaning  (D major) street (G major) s
Make footsteps tick,
A 
D 
G 
 (A major) talk to echoed wall (D major) s   (G major) 
A 
Let every sound  (A major) consecrate
D 
G 
our whispering  (D major)  (G major) 
A 
The words that Betta never heard  (A major) 
D 
 (D major) 

Interlude 2

Let every wind

Verse 7
Bm 
G 
A 
 (B minor)  (G major)  (A major) howl and
D 
G 
creak the creaking  (D major) doors  (G major) 
A 
To rooms that too  (A major) much
D 
G 
has happened in  (D major)  (G major) 
Bm 
Let every sound  (B minor) 
A 
D 
 (A major) consecrate our whispering  (D major) 
G 
A 
 (G major) The words that Betta never heard  (A major) 