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This is someone else's tab just in an easier fingering.
The song is in Eb so any variation will work, but C shapes are the easiest in my opinion.
Grapevine Fires
Death Cab For Cutie
Narrow Stairs
Capo 3
Standard Tuning
All chords in relation to capo
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-Verse 1-
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Am C G
When the wind picked up the fire spread
D Am
And the grapevines seemed left for dead
C G
And the Northern sky looked like the end of days
Em
The end of days
Am C G
The wake-up call to a rented room
D Am
Sounded like an alarm of impending doom
C G (hold twice as long)
To warn us it's only a matter of time
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-Chorus-
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Am C G D
Before we all burn
Am C G Em
Before we all burn
Am C G D
Before we all burn
Am C G (hold G)
Before we all burn
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-Verse 2-
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Am C G
We bought some wine and some paper cups
D Am
Near your daughters school when we picked her up
C G
And drove to a cemetery on a hill
Em
On a hill
Am C G
And we watched the plumes paint the sky gray
C Am
But she laughed and danced through the field of graves
C G
And there I knew it would be alright
D
That everything
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-Chorus-
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Bm D A E
Would be alright
Bm D A Fm
Would be alright
Bm D A E
Would be alright
Bm D A (hold A)
Would be alright
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-Bridge-
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B C
And the news reports on the radio
G Am
Said it was getting worse
C Em
As the ocean air fanned the flames
B
But I couldn't think
C G Am
Of anywhere I would of rather been
C D
To watch it all burn away
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-Chorus-
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Am C G D
To burn away
Am C G Em
Am C G D
Am C G (hold G)
Am C G D
Am C G Em
Am C G D
Am C G (hold G)
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-Outro-
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Am C G
And the firemen worked in double shifts
D Am
With prayers for rain on their lips
C G (fade)
And they knew it was only a matter of time
this is really good for the most part, but in the 2nd verse/chorus you institute a key change that shouldn't be there...it should keep along the same progressions until the bridge.
i think he forgot to change it from when he copied the other guys tab
Also there's a C that should be a D the second time through the verse.