Artist: The Decemberists
Song: Shiny
Album: 5 Songs [EP]
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Notes: Capo on 2nd Fret
This is a fairly easy song to play,
but uses some rather uncommon chords,
complete with long and weird names.
My advise would be to not be thrown
by the odd chords, but just to learn
the shapes of them, where they fit
into the song and keep at it :)
Here are all the chords used in the
song:
e|--0--| e|--0--| e|-----| e|--0--| e|--2--|
B|--3--| B|--0--| B|--0--| B|--0--| B|--3--|
G|--0--| G|--0--| G|--4--| G|--0--| G|--2--|
D|--2--| D|--2--| D|--4--| D|--2--| D|--0--|
A|--3--| A|--3--| A|--2--| A|--2--| A|--0--|
E|-----| E|-----| E|-----| E|--0--| E|--2--|<-- fret this with your thumb
e|--3--| e|--0--| e|--2--| e|--0--| e|--2--| e|--0--|
B|--0--| B|--1--| B|--0--| B|--3--| B|--3--| B|--1--|
G|--0--| G|--2--| G|--2--| G|--0--| G|--2--| G|--0--|
D|--0--| D|--2--| D|--1--| D|--4--| D|--0--| D|--2--|
A|--2--| A|--0--| A|--2--| A|--5--| A|-----| A|--3--|
E|--3--| E|-----| E|-----| E|-----| E|-----| E|-----|
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Introduction:
Verse 1:
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.
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.
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
'neath the tilt-a-whirl
where we were coyly caught alone
all fumbling with your blouse
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
and the sullen beery swine
try to tangle you in sullen beery balls of twine
have they ever seen two eyes so shiny?
9
the boys in denim vests
smoking cigarettes between
their bootblack fingertips
sweetly tipsy by the half-light
the light and the half-light
tell me why you lied
and what it is you do to keep your eyes,
all shiny, all shiny
The rest of the song is the norman verse chord
sequence "Cadd9 Cmaj7 Cadd9 Cmaj7 B5 Em B5 Em"
Over Colin singing "All shiny" repeatedly.
The song then finishes with:
Thanks for reading and enjoy playing :)