LEAST COMPLICATED (Emily Saliers)
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[Emily plays this in A with Capo on 10; Amy plays it in G with a capo on
[Each chord is half a measure. I think Amy plays C/G as 3x2013.]
(A) (D/A) (A) (A) (A) (D/A) (A) (A)
[intro]
(A) (D/A) (A) (A)
I sit two stories above the street
(A) (D/A) (A) (A)
It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep
Bm A/C#
There's life down below me though
D E A D/A A A
The kids are walking home from school
A D/A A A
So long ago when we were taught
A D/A A A
That for whatever kind of puzzle you've got
Bm A/C#
You just stick the right formula in
D E A D/A A A
A solution for every fool
E E D D
I remember the time when I came so close to you
A A Bm7 Bm7
Sent me skipping my class and running from school
D D E [tacet]
And I bought you that ring cause I never was cool
A E D
What makes me think I could start clean slated
D E [tacet] A D/A A A A D/A A A
The hardest to learn was the least complicated [mandolin]
A D/A A A
Oh I just sit up in the house and resist
A D/A A A
And not be seen until I cease to exist
Bm7 A/C#
A kind of conscientious objection
D E A D/A A A
A kind of dodging the draft
A D/A A A
The boy and girl are holding hands on the street
A D/A A A
And I don't want to but I think you just wait
Bm7 A/C#
It's more than just eye-to-eye
D E A Asus4 A A
Learn the things I could never apply
E(sus4?) E(sus4?) D(9) D(9)
And I remember the time when I came so close with you
A A Bm7 Bm7
I let everything go it seemed the only truth
D D E [tacet]
And I bought you that ring; it seemed the thing to do
A E D
What makes me think I could start clean slated
D E [tacet] A A
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
A E D
So what makes me think I could start clean slated
D E E A A
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
Bm7 Bm7 F#m7 F#m7
Ohhhhh, I'm just a mirror of a mirror of myself
D E A A
All the things that I do
F#m F#m C#m C#m
And the next time I fall, I'm gonna have to recall
D D/C# Bm7 D/A E (E)-(Esus4) (E) [tacet]
It isn't love, it's only something new
(A) (D/A) (A) (A)
I sit two stories above the street
(A) (D/A) (A) (A)
It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep
Bm7 A/C#
There's life down below me though
D E A D/A A A
The kids are walking home from school
E E D(9) D(9)
And I remember the time when I came so close with you
A A Bm7 Bm7
Sent me skipping my class and running from school
D D E [tacet]
And I bought you that ring cause I never was cool
A E D
What makes me think I could start clean slated
D E E A A
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
A E D
So what makes me think I could start clean slated
D E [tacet] A D/A A A
The hardest to learn was the least complicated [mandolin]
A D/A A A
Least complicated
A [tacet; single notes: G-G-G-F#-E, E-F#-G-G-G-F#-E-D-E etc.]
Least complicated (Na naa, na na na na naaaa...)
EMILY'S PICKING PATTERN:
A Asus4 A Asus9 A Asus9
E ----------------|------0---------|----------------|----------------|
B --------2-------|2=3-------3-----|----------0-----|0=2---0-------0-|
G --------------2-|----------------|------2-------2-|----------2-----|
D ----2-------2---|----2-------2---|----2-------2---|----2-------2---|
A 0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
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- transcribed by Adam Schneider, http://adamschneider.net/
