CALEXICO: Slowness
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(album: Carried to Dust, 2008)
This is a beautiful tune off the Calexico's 2008 "Carried to Dust" album. It was nowhere to be found tabbed on the Net, so when I discovered a good solo acoustic rendition by Calexico's own Joey Burns, it went without questioning... The video, by the way, is here (worthwhile): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTaMaYExIjE
There are still a few parts of the song where caution is advised - in the kinda pre-chorus line and then at the end of the chorus. Those parts are hard to figure out from the video, but you can simply rely on my version transcribed here - it works (I promise:-).
Chords:
C Em Dm G F ?/G# Am D* Fmaj7 C/B G/B
e|--0--0--1--3--1---x--0--0---0------------|
b|--1--0--3--3--1---x--1--3---1-----1---3--|
g|--0--0--2--0--2---x--2--0---2-----0---0--|
D|--2--2--0--0--3---x--2--4---3-----x---x--|
A|--3--2-----2--3--(3)-0--5--(3)----2---2--|
E|-(3)-0-----3--1---4-----x----------------|
C Em
Miles of highway poppies, a stretch of maybe flowers
Dm G
Past Signal Hill a ways
C Em
We were parked and searching
Dm G
For a hubcap rolling into the fields of thorns
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/c/calexico/slowness_crd_ver_2.html ]
F G ?/G# Am D*
Although we couldn't see a thing that night
C Fmaj7 C Fmaj7
Stars still shone
C Fmaj7
In their slowness
C
And their slowness
C/B G/B C
Took us by surprise
C Em
If I never told you how you helped to rescue
Dm G
The car and all inside
C Em
Remember roads were steep and
Dm G
You and I went sliding down the grade from Gate's Pass
F G ?/G# Am D*
You asleep and me behind the wheel hovering
C Fmaj7 C Fmaj7
In that slowness
C
And that slowness
C/B G/B C
Has never gone away
(VERSE chords) [solo/melody/whistle] C Em Dm G x2
F G ?/G# Am D*
Although we couldn't see a thing that night
C Fmaj7 C Fmaj7...
Stars still shone, stars still shone, stars still shone,
C Fmaj7...
In their slowness, in their slowness, in their slowness...
C
And their slowness
C/B G/B C
Never gone awa-a-ay
