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Colette - Langhorne Slim
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Tabbed by: Nate Mitchell
Email: nmitchell076@gmail.com
Tuning: Standard
Capo on 2
Notes concerning chord shapes at the bottom of the page.
Intro:
F Fadd11* F C C
F Fadd11 F C C
F Fadd11 F C C
G
Verse 1:
F Fadd11 F C C
All I wanted was a good song and a fair friend
F Fadd11 F C C
You came along just then
F Fadd11 F C C
You gave me crazy love and you whispered,
G
"You got a bottle and nobody that your missin'."
F Fadd11 F C C
I wasn't much of a fighter or a lover
F Fadd11 F C C
You said, "Don't get excited, but take cover"
F Fadd11 F C C
We stepped into the light to pictures of each other
G
Some were in black and white, the others were in color
Chorus:
F Fadd11 F G G C
Colette, I knew the second we met, you'd go to my head
C Am Am
we took a breath and leapt into the atmosphere
F Fadd11 F G G C
and I guess it was something you said, we'll rest when we're dead
C Am Am
now it must seem pretty clear
F C G F C G
That I love you. Yes, I do.
(repeat intro and verse 1, lyrics are the same, sing one octave higher)
Break:
C/G D5** C F C G G
(repeat x8)
Chorus (2x as fast as previously played)
F Fadd11 F G G C
C Am Am
F Fadd11 F G G C
C Am Am
F Fadd11 F G G C
Colette, I knew the second we met, you'd go to my head
C Am Am
we took a breath and leapt into the atmosphere
F Fadd11 F G G C
and I guess it was something you said, we'll rest when we're dead
C Am Am
now it must seem pretty clear
F C G F C C/G
That I love you.
* Fadd11 is used as a passing tone, hammer your pinky onto an A# and then
immediately release back into F. Chord shape for Fadd11 is simply:
-1-
-1-
-3-
-3-
-0-
---
** the D5 of the break is used as a passing tone, just release your fingers from
the C/G shape and pick the A and D strings. Part is so fast that it won't be
noticeable and sounds correct in the context.
Note concerning chord shapes:
As with many of Folk musicians, Langhorne Slim uses a slight variation in chord
shapes. The chords will usually feel like they are shaped like C, that is:
-0-
-1-
-0-
-2-
-3-
-0-
To form an F Chord, all you would have to do would be to move your 2 fingers from
the D and A Strings to the G and D strings, and mute (or don't play) the E
strings. So F would be formed like this:
---
-1-
-2-
-3-
-0-
---
similarly, G would be played like this:
-3-
-0-
-0-
-0-
-2-
-3-
Note that your pinky is on the high G.
Another note is that for this song, Langhorne plays C with the added 5th, so just
keep your pinky like its playing G and your good to go.
The final chord of this song is C/G, the G is the lower G, not the higher one, so
the chord would be:
-0-
-1-
-0-
-2-
-3-
-3-
This is the same shape of C/G used in the break section.
Forming these chords is far easier then explaining how to :], but I hope this
helped some people who are new to folk chord shapes.
