June Hymn Chords

Artist: The Decemberists
Song: June Hymn
Album: The King Is Dead
Tabbed by: Don Tago (modified by bensully)
Email: recebedou@yahoo.com
 
 
Standard Tuning: [Capo II]
 
Chords used:
     EADGBe
Am:  002210
C:   032010
C/B: 020010
D*:  200232
Em:  022000
G:   320033
G/Am:320010
G/C: 332010
 
Thumbing the baseline is important throughout the whole song.
If you listen to the recording, the chord changes move straight with
the guitar baseline and thats how I judged some of the chord changes I made.
 
In the verse, the low E descends on the first line and the
A descends on the second line, then goes back up to reset
for the third line, which goes down all the way from the A to the E.
 
The interlude before the final chorus plays like a lyric line, except
it is instrumental.
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[Intro]
G
 
 
[Verse 1]
G                  D*             Em   G           D*             Em
Here's the hymn to welcome in the day, heralding a summer's early sway
                             C  C/B    Am    C/B
And all the bulbs all coming in   to begin
    C                 C/B             Am                G        D*
The thrushes bleating battle with the wrens disrupts my reverie again
 
 
[Verse 2]
G         D               Em
  Pegging clothing on the line
G          D               Em                       C   C/B   Am    C/B
  Training Jasmine how to vine up the arbor to your door, and more
       C               C/B              Am                 G               D
You're standing on the landing with the war you shouldered all the night before
 
 
[Chorus]
C             D*              G                C
 Once upon it, yellow bonnets, garland all the lawn
Am               D*                    G              C
  You were waking and day was breaking,  a panoply of song
D                    C/G         G
 And summer comes to Springville Hill
 
 
[Verse 3]
  G         D          Em       G               D           Em
A barony of ivy in the trees, expanding out its empire by degrees
                               C   C/B      Am  C/B
And all the branches burst to bloom, in the boom
C                C/B        Am          G               D
Heaven sent this cardinal maroon to decorate our living room
 
 
[Chorus]
C             D*              G                C
 Once upon it, yellow bonnets, garland all the lawn
Am               D*                    G              C
  You were waking and day was breaking,  a panoply of song
D                    C/G         G
 And summer comes to Springville Hill
 
 
[Bridge]
C               D*                Em          C
And years from now when this old light isn't ambling anymore
Am      D/F#            G      D*        Em
Will I bring myself to writ-e-ite-e-ite-ite-e-ite
C                 D*           G
I give my best to Springville Hill
 
 
[Interlude]
G Em G Em
C C/B Am G
C C/B Am G D/F#
 
 
[Chorus]
C             D*              G                C
 Once upon it, yellow bonnets, garland all the lawn
Am               D*                    G              C
  You were waking and day was breaking,  a panoply of song
D                    C/G         G
 And summer comes to Springville Hill
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