Artist: The Decemberists
Album: Always the Bridesmaid: A Singles Series
Song: Days Of Elaine
Tabbed by: mattm
E: x79997
D: x57775
A: 577655
[verse]
E
those were the days of elaine, that was the phrase that she used to describe
D A E
to her son, of the fun, she had had
E
long before he went away, long before days of the dull and the dregs (?)
D A E
and the lull and the call never came
C D E
they say, oh oh oh oh oh
[verse]
E
loitering lavendar park, laying about in the day and the dark
D A E
of a room while the noon passes by
E
always on verge of collapse, mother would quit and then suffer a lapse
D A E
from the drink you would think she was dead
C D E
but they say, oh oh oh oh oh
C D E
she says, oh oh oh oh oh
[chorus]
C#m
and the time that it takes
B
well it goes so slow
C#m
and she laid on the brakes
B
she don't ???
A
doesn't it go so slow
G# A
when you build it up to tear it down
E
you're tearin' down
A
you tear it down
F#
those were the days
A
those were the days of elaine
E E
the days of elaine
D A E
the days of elaine
[verse]
E
a lover like ??? ???, she followed him blind from saloon to salon
D A E
from the hills to the pills he would take
E
father died in the mines, brother showed no remorse for his ???
D
when they strung him up
A E
he got all hung up on the scaffolding
C D E
but he says, oh oh oh oh oh
C D E
he says, oh oh oh oh oh
[chorus]
C#m
and the time that it takes
B
well it goes so slow
C#m
and she laid on the brakes
B
she don't ??? ???
A
doesn't it go so slow
G# A
when you build it up to tear it down
E
you're tearin' down
A
you tear it down
F#
those were the days
A
those were the days of elaine
E E
the days of elaine
D A E
the days of elaine
[outro]
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