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.
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Intro: G
Verse 1:
G D* Em G D* Em
Here's a hymn to welcome in the day, heralding a summer's early sway
C C/B Am C/B
And all the bulbs are coming in to begin
C C/B Am G/Am D*
The thrushes bleeding battle with the wrens disrupts my reverie again
Verse 2: [Use verse 1 chords]
Pegging clothing on the line
Training jazzmen how to find up the arbor to your door, anymore
Standing on the landing with the war you shouldered all the night before
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/d/decemberists/june_hymn_crd_ver_2.html ]
Chorus 1:
C D* G C
Once upon it, yellow bonnets, garland all along
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: [use verse 1 chords]
A barony of ivy in the trees, expanding out its empire by degrees
And all the branches burst to bloom, in the boon
Heaven sent this card and all maroon did decorate our living room
Chorus 2: [use chorus 1 chords]
Once upon it, yellow bonnets, garland all along
You were waking, day was breaking, a panoply of song
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], then
[C - C/B - Am - G/Am], then
[C - C/B - Am - G/Am - D/F#]
Chorus 3: [use chorus 1 chords]
Once upon it, yellow bonnets, garland all along
You were waking, day was breaking, a panoply of song
And summer comes to Springville Hill
