Closer To Fine Chords & Tabs
This is from the Indigo Girls 1200 Curfews music book.
All chords are the way that Emily and Amy do it.
This is a good song to play solo because the two guitar parts are identical.
Don’t worry, it’s a LOT easier than it looks.
See end for fingerings...
Capo 2
Standard Tuning EADGBE
Intro/Rhy. Fig. 1:
(G) (A7sus4)
E--------3---3---3---3---------3---3---3---3---------------
B--------3---3---3---3---------3---3---3---3---------------
G--------0---0---0---0---------0---0---0---0---------------
D--------0---0---0---0------2--2---2---2---2---------------
A-----2---------------------0------------------------------
E-----3----------------------------------------------------
End Rhy. Fig. 1
(Cadd9) (Dsus4) (D) (Dsus2) (D)
E--------3---3---3---3------3--------2------0------2-------
B--------3---3---3---3------3--------3------3------3-------
G--------0---0---0---0------2--------2------2------2-------
D-----2--2---2---2---2------0--------0------0------0-------
A-----3----------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------
Verse with Rhy. Fig. 1 (above):
G A7sus4 Cadd9 Dsus4 D Dsus2
I’m tryin to tell you something about my life
D G A7sus4 Cadd9 Dsus4 D Dsus2
Maybe give me insight between black and white
D D11 C
And the best thing you’ve ever done for me
D11 C
Is to help me take my life less seriously
(------------------Rhy. Fig. 1----------------)
G A7sus4 Cadd9 Dsus4 D Dsus2 D
Cause its only life after all
Verse with Rhy. Fig. 1:
G A7sus4 Cadd9 Dsus4 D Dsus2
Well darkness has a hunger that’s insatiable
D G A7sus4 Cadd9 Dsus4 D
And lightness has a call that’s hard to hear
Dsus2 D D11 C
And I’ll wrap my fear around me like a blanket
D11 C
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it
G C G
And I’m crawling on your shore
Chorus:
D Cadd9 G
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
D Cadd9 G
I looked to the children and I drank from the fountains
D11 C
There’s more than one answer to these questions
G C G
Pointing me in a crooked line
D11 C N.C.
The less I seek my source for some definitive
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/i/indigo_girls/closer_to_fine_tab.html ]
(--------------Rhy Fig. 1----------
G A7sus4 Cadd9
The closer I am to fine------
----------------)(----------------Rhy Fig. 1------------------)
Dsus4 D Dsus2 D G A7sus4 Cadd9 Dsus4 D Dsus2 D
The Closer I am to fine------ yeah
Verse with Rhy. Fig 1:
G A7sus4 Cadd9 Dsus4 D Dsus2 D
I went to see the doctor of philosophy
G A7sus4 Cadd9 Dsus4 D Dsus2
With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
D D11 C
And he never did marry or see a b-grade movie
D11 C
But he graded my performance and he said he could see through me
G D Cadd9
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind
D G C G
I got my paper and I was free
[Chorus]
Verse with Rhy. Fig 1:
G A7sus4 Cadd9 Dsus4 D Dsus2
So I stopped by the bar at three a.m.
D G A7sus4 Cadd9 Dsus4 D Dsus2
To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend
D D11 C
And I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
D11 C
I was twice as cloudy as I’d been the night before
G C G
When I went in seeking clarity
Outro/Chorus:
[chorus]
D Cadd9 G
Here we go to the doctor we go to the mountains
D Cadd9 G
We look to the children and we drink from the fountains
D Cadd9
Here we go to the bible we go through the workout
D G N.C. G
We read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout
D11 C
There’s more than one answer to these questions
G C G
Pointing me in a crooked line
D11 C N.C
The less I seek my source for some definitive
(---------------Rhy Fig 1--
G A7sus4 Cadd9
The closer I am to fine
--------------)(-------------Rhy Fig 1--
Dsus4 D Dsus2 D G A7sus4 Cadd9
Clos--er I am to fine---------
--------------)(-------------Rhy Fig 1--------------------)
Dsus4 D Dsus2 D G A7sus4 Cadd9 Dsus4 D Dsus2 D G-------
Clos--er I am to fine---------
D11=x54030 (this sounds kind of weird, I use xx0010-sounds much better)
C=x32010
G=320003
D=xx0232
Cadd9=x23033 (or x23003)
Dsus4=xx0233
Dsus2=xx0230
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