Strangest Thing Chords & Tabs
Grant Lee Phillips
LITTLE MOON - 2009
CHORDS
Transcribed by Vladimir Roman - All credit to him
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Vladimir Roman
2. STRANGEST THING
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Comments:
1. Parts of Riff 1 also sound in some Verses.
2. Piano chords:
Bass Chord
Em/B B g - B - e
Em/D D g - B - e
D/F# F# D - D - F#
3. Guitar chords:
Em/B Em/D D/F#
e[0] e[0] e(x)
B[3] B[3] B[3]
g[4] g[2] g(0)
D[4] D[0] D[0]
a[2] a[2] a[0]
e[2] e[x] e[2]
4. Riff 1 is played on the piano. The guitar chords and notes
below are, of course, a very simplified transcription.
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Riff 1: x3 (There's a pause between the 2nd and the 3rd time,
where just the G chord + b[--0h3p0h30...-] sound
for serveral bars.)
g Em/B g Em/B
e[--------------------0-0-0-0-------------------0-0-0-0--]
b[--0h3p0h3p0h3p0h3p0---------0h3p0h3p0h3p0h3p0----------]
Em7 Em/D
e[--------------------0-0-0-0--]
b[--0h3p0h3p0h3p0h3p0----------]
Verse 1:
g Bm g Bm
Strangest thing days I feel like dirt
Em D g
And then I see the diamond dust on everything
g Bm g Bm
Strangest thing something plucks my nerve
Em D g D/F# Em D C g D
And then I hear a hundred chords a-shimmering
Verse 2:
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/g/grant-lee_phillips/strangest_thing_crd.html ]
g Bm g Bm
Strangest thing the way that one guitar
Em D g
Can move me more than any symphony
g Bm g Bm
Strangest thing when it stars to pour
Em D g D/F# Em D C g D
I feel the sadness and the pain go out of me
Chorus:
g D/F# Em D C g D
I don’t feel sad when Cash wears black I hear the train comin’
g D/F# Em D C g D
Good things down the railroad track ya gotta believe in somethin’
Riff 1: x1
Verse 3:
g Bm g Bm
Yeah the strangest thing that assassin’ gun
Em D g
It was a-trained to fire away on anyone
g Bm g Bm Em
Strangest thing the way a stranger wept for him
D g D/F# Em D C g D
And how she spilt a tear of love
g Bm g Bm Em
Yeah the strangest thing the way that hope can hide itself
D g D/F# Em D C g D
Behind the walls of anything
Chorus:
g D/F# Em D C g D
I don’t feel sad when Cash wears black I hear the train comin’
g D/F# Em D C g D
Good things down the railroad track ya gotta believe in somethin’
Riff 1: x1
Verse 4:
g Bm g Bm Em
Strangest thing like a potion to unspell
D g
The curse of human suffering
g Bm g Bm
Stangest thing strangest things befall
Em D g D/F# Em D C g D
Even the strongest of us all
Ending:
g D/F# Em D C g D
g D/F# Em D C
