Artist: The Decemberists
Album: The King Is Dead
Song: June Hymn
Tabbed by: Adam Thomas
(Dslide is really a D11, but I call it Dslide to remind myself that it's just a C
chord slid up two frets.)
Capo 2 Intro: G, C/G(hammer)
G G/F# Em7
Here’s a hymn to welcome in the day
G G/F# Em7
Heralding the summer’s early sway
C C/B Am7 (walk up)
And all the bulbs all coming in...to begin
C C/B Am7
Thrushes bleating battle with the wrens
C/G D/F#
Disrupts my reverie again
Pegging clothing on the line
Training jasmine how to vine
Up the arbor to your door...and more
Standing on the landing with the war
You shouldered all the night before
C D
Once upon it, the yellow bonnets
G C
Garland all the lawn
Am7 D
You were waking, day was breaking
G C
A panoply of song
D(slide) C (Intro)
Summer comes to Springville Hill
A barony of ivy in the trees
Expanding out its empire by degrees
And all the branches burst abloom...in the boom
Heaven sent this cardinal maroon
To decorate our living room
Once upon it... (Then intro with walk up G A B C in the bass)
C D Em C Am7
And years from now when this old life isn’t ambling anymore,
D C C/B Am7 C/G
Will I bring myself to write--------------?
G D (Intro)
I give my best to Springville Hill
Once upon it...
(Intro x1) D(slide) Intro to close
Summer comes to Springville Hill
#----------------------------PLEASE NOTE-----------------------------#
# This represents the author's own work and interpretation of the #
# song. To be used only for private study, scholarship, or research. #
#--------------------------------------------------------------------#
Follow On Twitter