Sky High Honey
Matt Nathanson
Tabbed by: Robbie Vogel (robbievogel@gmail.com)
(All Fs should be barred)
There's a chord in the chorus that I don't know the name of, but I know it's right. I'm
calling it F/C, and it's fingered like this:
e|-----x--------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----1--------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----1--------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----2--------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----3--------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----1--------------------------------------------------------------------|
The low E string 1 is optional, and played by the thumb. It's basically a C chord with a
bar over the G and B strings.
Also, in the chorus, there is a C (walkdown). If you listen to the song the guitar
mimics the melody in the "sky high honey" part, which you can do by playing a C chord and
then going:
e|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----1---0----------0-------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------2------------------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Alternatively, if you want it to sound bigger, you can go:
C G Am7 G C
Sky high honey, gone.
OK, on to the music.
INTRO: C, Csus4
e|-------0-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------1---------------1---------------------------------------------------|
G|-------0------------0------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----2----------2h3--------------------------------------------------------|
A|---3----------3------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
VERSE:
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/m/matt_nathanson/sky_high_honey_tab.html ]
C Em F G
I bet you're laughing at some joke he told you
C Em F G
With his arm around your sunburnt shoulders
G Em F G
I spent the morning with my face against the windowseat
G Em F G
Looking down at all the things that got the best of me
CHORUS:
C F/C
No more late night drives to Boston
F C (walkdown)
No more Cure songs to get lost in
C F/C
No more taxis, subway tokens
F C (walkdown) C
Arms wide open, I'm sky high honey, gone.
VERSE 2 (same chords)
I take the streetcars around San Francisco
Get winks from the pretty boys down in the Castro
Through the turnstiles roll the Jappy (?) girls, the shabby dolls
I can't resist myself, I get their names, I never call.
CHORUS 2
C F/C
No more late night drives to Boston
F C (walkdown)
No more Cure songs to get lost in
C F/C
No more taxis, subway tokens
F C (walkdown) Em
Arms wide open, I'm sky high honey, gone.
C (walkdown) Em
I'm sky high honey, gone.
BRIDGE:
Em F C
You wait too long, you never leave
Em F C G
And it feels like dying, but still your heart beats
Em, F, C, G
Em, F, C walkdown
CHORUS 3 (quieter)
C F/C
No more late night drives to Boston
F C (walkdown)
No more Cure songs to get lost in
C F/C
No more taxis, subway tokens
F C (walkdown) Em
Arms wide open, I'm sky high honey, gone.
C (walkdown) C
I'm sky high honey, gone.
OUTRO: same as Intro
