Song: Cassiopeia
Artist: Joanna Newsom
Album: "The Milk-Eyed Mender"
Tab by Devin Miller
Tuning: Standard EADGBe ***CAPO 2nd Fret
******************************************************************
INTRO:
I will tab these harmonics as if there was no capo...because they are
high up on the fret board (so play these on the indicated fret with a
capo on 2).
F# C# E B E C#
e|-------------------------------------|
B|------14+------------------14+-------|
G|-------------------------------------|
D|------------7+---5+---7+-------------|
A|-9+----------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------|
Feel the matress tense beneath me
like the muscle of nonsleepy;
Feathers flexing will defeat me,
and it vexes me completely.
******************************************************************
CHORD REFERENCE (use these, not the ones UG puts as links
above the lyrics):
Esus4 E Bm D7M A7M A D F#m
e|--0-----0-----2-----2-----0-----0----2----2-----|
B|--0-----0-----3-----2-----2-----2----3----2-----|
G|--2-----1-----4-----2-----1-----2----2----2-----|
D|--2-----2-----4-----0-----2-----2----0----4-----|
A|--2-----2-----2-----------0-----0---------4-----|
E|--0-----0---------------------------------2-----|
VERSES:
Esus4 E
And the hexes heat covertly
Bm E
like a slow low-flying turkey
Esus4 E
like a Texan drying jerky
Bm E
but his meaty mitts can't hurt me
Esus4 E
With my steely will compounded
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/j/joanna_newsom/cassiopeia_crd.html ]
Bm E
in a mighty mound that's hounded
Esus4 E
by the snap your steel string sounded,
Bm E
just before your snores unwound it.
-----
D7M A7M
And in store are dreams so daring
Bm A7M
that the night can't stop from staring.
-----
Esus4 E
I'll swim sweetly as a herring
Bm E
through the ether, not despairing.
-----
A E
Go to sleep, you stunning sky;
D E
gently creep cunning by:
F#m E
A quiet hum is amplified
D E
by your thumb, that you suck dry.
A E D E
Hundred raging waters snare the lonely sigh.
F#m E D E
Hold your breath and clasp at Cassiopiea.
A E D E
Hundred raging waters snare the lonely sigh.
F#m E D E
Hold your breath and clasp at Cassiopiea.
-----
Esus4 E
Cassiopeia.
Bm E Esus4
Cassiopeia!
E Bm E
Ohhhh....Cassiopeia!
-----
D E D E
=========================================================================
