Murder And Crime Chords

by Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine
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This version has much similar voicing to the original with capo on 7, as well as more coloration to the chords to make it sound more authentic and interesting.Was this info helpful?
Difficulty: intermediate
Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: Bm
Capo: 7th fret
Author can 0f spam [pro] 395. Last edit on Oct 13, 2021

Chords

Em
Cmaj7
D
Asus2
C
Bm7
Am
A7
G

Strumming

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Capo 7
 
Chords used:
Em     : 022003         Cmaj7  : x32000                D     : xx0232
Asus2  : x02200         C      : x32010
Bm7    : x2023x         Am     : x02210
A7     : x02020         G      : 320033
 
Fingerpicking pattern example (basically works for whole song):
 
 |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |
 |Em              |Asus2           |Bm7             |A7              |
E|---3---3---3---3|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|----------------|---0---0---0---0|---3---3---3---3|---2---2---2---2|
G|--0---0---0---0-|--2---2---2---2-|--2---2---2---2-|--0---0---0---0-|
D|-2---2---2---2--|-2---2---2---2--|-0---0---0---0--|-2---2---2---2--|
A|----------------|0---0---0---0---|2---2---2---2---|0---0---0---0---|
E|0---0---0---0---|----------------|----------------|----------------|
 
Note that the timing changes from 4/4 during the last chord in the chorus (C) with
a single additional bar of 2/4
 
 
Em Asus2 Bm7 A7
 
[Verse 1]
Em                Asus2
Evidence known so long
   Bm7                A7
Oh god, I'm lost in my wrongs
Em                    Asus2
Everything froze like stone
         Bm7                     A7     C
Saw your heart couldn't take much more
 
[Chorus]
Am              Em            D
My boy, I don't know why this life
      C           G           Bm7         C
Is so cruel and unkind but it weighs on my heart
Am              Em            D
All joys were taken from your eyes
       C          G       Bm7       C
As the law would abide in murder and crime
Am                Em       D
Hard lines as the fossil defines
         C          G        Bm7          C
It's own shadow in lime and reveals how it dies
 
Em Cmaj7 Bm7 A7
 
[Verse 2]
Em                                   Cmaj7
If anything goes, then everything's flawed
      Bm7                        A7
Oh my love, what the violence has caused
Em                        Cmaj7
Malevolence flowed from beyond
       Bm7                   A7     C
And my heart cannot take much more
 
[Chorus]
Am          Em           D
Oh joy I'm afraid of the light
       C           G           Bm7     C
As the jewel of my mind begins to fall apart
Am                      Em         D
Do not destroy what has taken it's time
       C           G       Bm7       C
As the lord would abide in murder and crime
 
[Chorus]
Am                  Em            D
Oh my love, I don't know why this life
      C           G           Bm7         C
Is so cruel and unkind but it weighs on my heart
Am     G            Em     D
Fading lines as the fossil denies
         C             G          Bm7        C
It's own shadow in the time to conceal how it died
 
[Verse 3]
Em                    Cmaj7
Evidence known, march on
   Bm7                 A7
Oh god, I'm lost in the antiphon
Em                                         Cmaj7
Where does everything go when everything's gone?
       Bm7                    A7       C
For my heart cannot break much more
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2 comments
Cooprix
Wow, thank you! Beautiful tab
+1
tyclark809
I figured out that the low E needs to be tuned down to C or G relative to capo on 7th it makes all the difference
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