Neko Case

Accords et partitions

I Wish I Was the Moon

C F C/B Am Fm

Chimney falls and lover's blaze Thought that I was young Now I've freezin'hands and bloodless veins As numb as I've become I'm so tired, I wish I was the moon tonight

Hold On, Hold On

G C Em D B7

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The most tender place in my heart is for strangers I know it's unkind but my own blood is much too dangerous Hangin'round the ceiling half the time Hangin'round the ceiling half the time

Star Witness

D G Bm Em F#m Gmaj7

My true love drowned in a dirty old pan Of oil that did run from the block Of a falcon sedan nineteen sixty nine The paper said '75 There were no survivors

Hell-On

A7 Dm F C Bb7 Am

[VERSE 1] God is not a contract or a guy God is an unspecified tide You cannot time its tables It sets no glass or gables

This Tornado Loves You

D Gmaj7 Bm Bb G F#

My love, I am the speed of sound I left them motherless, fatherless Their souls dangling inside-out from their mouths But it's never enough I want you

Curse Of The I-5 Corridor

F C Am F# Em Fmaj7

I waited too long to write this down The startling sensation is fading The sweet, sweet burn Of the first drink of the night, underage Knowing that you're gonna get away with it

Bad Luck

D A Em F#m Bm Bm/A

Chorus Woke a dog from a running dream And that's bad luck (Bad luck) Ate a black fly in the cream And that's bad luck (Bad, bad luck) Chipped my tooth on an engagement ring And that's bad luck (Bad luck) Could have stopped any one of these things But that would have been

Last Lion Of Albion

Am C F D7 D

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[Verse 1] Early in the morning where there used to be a slough There's a tiny business lake, don't let the cattails fool you Down in the bottom where nothing is born Sleeps a silver dollar with your face thereon

Halls Of Sarah

Am C F G

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A childless widow of a nation You cry like guns across the water Yet we expect you to bring springtime It isn't fair Searchlights wither in your hair

Deep Red Bells

D Bm Dm G

Who you led you to this hiding place This lightning thread-spun silver tunnels Red bells beckon you to ride Hand print on the driver's side It looks a lot like engine oil

Man

G Em C B7 A7

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I'm a man That's what you raised me to be I'm not an identity crisis This was planned

Night Still Comes

B E Abm B7 Em A

My brain makes drugs to keep me slow A hilarious joke for some dead pharaoh But now, not even the masons know What drug will keep night from coming

People Got A Lotta Nerve

C G Em Am7 D6/9 Gm7/F#

Verse 1 So the saying says, "An elephant never forgets," Standing in a concrete gate, Swaying si-lent and sane They walked over the ocean and their dreams they dreamed awake

Oracle Of The Maritimes

Bb Dm Gm

Too cloudy to see fireworks We would ride A chest of drawers into the waves His granite hand held mi-i-i-ine

Middle Cyclone

A E

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Can't give up actin' tough, It's all that I'm made of. Can't scrape together quite enough To ride the bus to the outskirts Of the fact that I need love.

Magpie To The Mornong

F# B C# G#m D#m

Magpie comes a calling Drops a marble from the sky Tin roof sounds alarm

Margaret vs. Pauline

G C Em B7

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Everything's so easy for Pauline Everything's so easy for Pauline Ancient strings set feet a light to speed to her such mild grace No monument of tacky gold They smoothed her hair with cinnamon waves

Calling Cards

C F

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[Verse 1] I used a calling card at the pay phone From the other coast Just to tell you how good it was to hear you In those songs you wrote

Im An Animal

F C Am E

Verse 1: You can say it's my instinct Yes, I still have one There's no time to second guess it Yes, there are things that I'm still so afraid of

That Teenage Feeling

G C Em D Gm Am

[Verse] Now that we've met We can only laugh at these regrets Common as a winter cold They're telephone poles

Dirty Diamond

C D E Am F G

Found these in a box at the bus stop My name's at the bottom But I'm nowhere to be found I really get around they say

Fox Confessor Brings The Flood

G A Fmaj7 B7 C D/F#

Driving home I see those flooded fields How can people not know what beauty this is I've taken it for granted my whole life Since the day I was born

Nothing To Remember

G C E7

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I spent my life becoming invisible It's hard to maintain and its hard to get by I don't recall fight or flight setting in

Vengeance Is Sleeping

D D6 Bb Gm E Em

Note: I had to work out how to play this live without much messing about, so it's not Accurate to the record - to get that you'll have to detune your low E string to D, and Finger position accordingly! (For clues, there's a video on youtube where Someone's accidentally just filmed the guitarist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FEYxc14ZUQ)

Dirty Knife

Em C G C7

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So suddenly the madness came With it's whiskered, wolven, ether pangs He locked the door And he shut the blinds He laid down on the floor and he slept like iron

Maybe Sparrow

G Cmaj7 C Em B Em7

[verse] Maybe sparrow you should wait Cmaj7 B+(augmented) The hawks alight till morning You'll never pass beyond the gate

Furnace Room Lullaby

Am E7 C

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I twisted you over and under to take you The coals went so wild as they swallowed the rest I twisted you under and under to break you I just couldn't breathe with your throne on my chest

Ragtime

E A F#m D Bm

[Verse] Last night, late, I was watching it snow It always goes sideways in the city It comes right out from the street lights, you know Pumped out by an engine deep inside the earth's core

The Pharaohs

E C G F Am A

Hi! Hope this helps you guys! I'll indicate lower in the tab where this applies But there are occasional 'sus4' chords in this song but it's kind of hard to point Out exactly Where they are in the lines. I'll mark where that happens so you can listen to the Song and figure out where you want to play them. Thanks!!!

A Widows Toast

D G F# Bm

Specters move like pilot flames Their widows toast at St. Angel Better times collide with now The tears were warm, I feel them still Their heat to vapor and disperse

Things That Scare Me

Em D

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Same birds that followed me to school When I was young Were they trying to tell me something? Were they telling me to run? The hammer clicks in place

Wild Creatures

G Cmaj7 A D Em7 E5

When you catch the light You look like your mother It crushes me some, Just right from the side When you catch the light

I'm From Nowhere

C Fmaj7 Am G Em

Verse 1 Night sunshine, the ghetto-bird chimes 4am Welcome to the West a mosquito to kiss your hands and feet Welcome to this dirty business I was surprised when you called me a lady

Outro With Bees

D Db G Ddim7 Bm

How's hope feeling... today? Tired and sick of ... this place Red wine is fast

Needle Has Landed

C F Em G Fm

Here I am when traffic slowly flows (Where the needle touched down) Carbon planes draw a cage round the air force base (Where the needle touched down) My foot on the brake it's ok to fly low

City Swans

F C G Am Em B

[Verse 1](N.C.) (Continue Intro Riff) Baby, come out I'll meet you in the street At the place by the old fire station We'll get something to eat,

Favorite

C E7 F G

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FAVORITE - Neko Case Tabbed by: Lydia Bukowski Email: [email protected]

South Tacoma Way

F C G Am Em

I put on that sweater you gave me I woke up in the kitchen a few minutes later I didn't know how I had gotten there Did you guide me

Polar Nettles

F#m Bm D Db7 A

He takes his dinner in the bath Love sickened and infirmed The orderly found him there Fileted on the marble stairs Hat still in hand

Lion's Jaws

E Am B7 F

You're gone, the trees are so quiet When your hand was in my pocket How they swayed from side to side Now the meddling sky and my snowy eye Sees a different night

Fever

Em G Am C D

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THEIR FEET HAD NO INTENTION THEY FOLLOWED SOME MAGNETIC DRUM Em Asus2 Em PRISONERS OF THEIR DESTINATION

Look For Me (I'll Be Around)

B7 Em Am D

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May not seem exciting Way those others do I'm a notion My devotion You will need some days I'll need you

Hex

C F G

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Hear me calling your name in the night To run to your window thinking a coyote might Be howling Hear me knocking at your door again To tell yourself its only the wind

Red Tide

Bm G Em D Em7 A

There’s a smell here that stands my hairs on end Dog hair in the heater, gas pumps and cedar And jacknives on the nine And seabirds choked on fishing line

Lady Pilot

D D7 D6

Stars can't fight city lights Dsus2+5 D They've turned their backs on us Dsus2+5 D It's true today, I saw it from the plane

Set Out Running

D Bm A G Bb

Want to get it all behind me You know everything reminds me I can't be myself without you Want to crawl down deep inside The springs inside the mattress

Thrice All American

G C D

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[Verse 1] I want to tell you about my hometown It's a dusty old jewel in the South Puget Sound Well, the factories churn and the timbers all cut down And life goes by slow in Tacoma

I Missed The Point

D G F#

[Verse] I have lightning If the stars dry out To guide me

Pretty Girls

Am Em E a C Dm

[Chorus] Oh pretty girls, you're too good for this How you break my heart in this cold waiting room Oh now pretty girls, you're too good for this E Esus4 E

Guided By Wire

D G Bm E A D7

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[Verse] Voices that did comfort me Are furthest from my sanity And come from places I have never seen Even in my darkest recollection

If You Knew

G Em C Bm D

If You Knew By Neko Case If you knew what I know, you wouldn't go to see her.

Runnin' Out Of Fools

F Cm Fm Bb G Dm

Are you sure you got the right number Is it me you wanna talk to tonight Everyone in town's got your number Everybody's got you pegged right

Stinging Velvet

D Db G Bm D6

Intro Rain falls, I fix my eyes Let go of the focus and

In California

G D A D/C# D/B D/A

In California, I dream of snow And all the places we used to go With the night falling down With the night falling down Now I?m living in Koreatown waking to the sound of car alarms

No Need To Cry

Cm7 Bb6 F9 Dbm7 Ab Dm7

Artist: Neko Case Album: Furnace Room Lullaby Tempo: 200 BPM Time: 3/4

Behind The House

Em C G B7

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Artist: Neko Case Song: Behind The House Album: Live From Austin TX Year: 2007 Tabbed: By Christina Ayers

Wayfaring Stranger

Am Dm G E F Em

I'm just a poor wayfarin' stranger, While travelin' through this world below. Yet there's no sickness, no toil, nor danger, In that bright land to which I go. I'm goin' there to see my Father.

Make Your Bed

G D C B Em

[Verse 1] Did you come here to meet him, my dear? You're surprised to find only me Well, I put him to rest at the bend in the river And the same I require of you

Thanks A Lot

G Em C D

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Thanks Thanks a lot I got a broken heart That's all i've got You made me cry

Andy

G C Bm E D F

[Verse] Andy The summer's over I never noticed Did you really think you'd leave so fast

Timber

D A G F

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(Intro) (Verse) My love was like a seed that you had planted

Bowling Green

C G Am D Bm

Way down in Bowlin' Green Prettiest girls i've ever seen A man in Kentucky sure is lucky To lie down in Bowlin' Green Bowlin' Green folks treat you kind

Soulful Shade Of Blue

G C D F

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Dressmaker, dressmaker, ?I'm singing at the hall next Saturday night and he'll be there. ?He's been gone for so long, I want him back again, ?Make me the sweetest dress you can.?

Misfire

C G Bb D# Em A

NEKO CASE AND HER BOYFRIENDS- MISFIRE Don't you misfire to fill me up With the desire to carry on

Alone And Forsaken

Am E F C

We met in the springtime when blossoms unfold The pastures were green and the meadows were gold Our love was in flower as summer grew on Her love like the leaves has withered and gone.