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Capo 3
I use my thumb for the "F#" (the low 2). Pull the "B" off to "A"
to add some color. More notes at the bottom.
D5 D5/F# D5/G D2 D2/F# D2/G color
---------|--------|--------- ---0---0-|--0---0-|--0------ -0----|
---3---3-|--3---3-|--3------ ---3---3-|--3---3-|--3------ -3----|
---2---2-|--2---2-|--2------ ---2---2-|--2---2-|--2------ -4p2--|
-0----0--|--------|--------- -0----0--|--------|--------- ------|
---------|--------|--------- ---------|--------|--------- ------|
---------|2----2--|3-------- ---------|2----2--|3-------- ------|
D5 D5/F# D5/G
You’re cussing a storm in a cocktail dress
D5 D5/F# D5/G
your mother wore when she was young
D5 D5/F# D5/G
Red southern saint around your neck
D5 D5/F# D5/G
A wet martini in a paper cup
D2 D2/F# D2/G
You’re a wasp nest
D2 D2/F# D2/G
You’re a wasp nest
D5 D5/F# D5/G
Your eyes are broken bottles
D5 D5/F# D5/G
And I’m afraid to ask
D5 D5/F# D5/G
And all your wrath and cutting beauty
D5 D5/F# D5/G
You’re poison in the pretty glass
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/the_national/wasp_nest_crd.html ]
D2 D2/F# D2/G
You’re a wasp nest
D2 D2/F# D2/G
You’re a wasp nest
D2 D2/F# D2/G
You’re all humming live wires
D2 D2/F# D2/G
under your killing clothes.
D2 D2/F# D2/G
Get over here, I wanna
D2 D2/F# D2/G
kiss your skinny throat
D2 D2/F# D2/G
You’re a wasp nest
D2 D2/F# D2/G
You’re a wasp nest
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Notes
There’s more than one guitar, and you start hear added notes like this.
I play this down an octave or drop the chord and move my hand up
for a moment.
Capo 3
or
---0---7p5-------- ---0---0----------|
---3-------------- ---3---3----------|
---2-------------- ---2---4p2--------|
-0----0----------- -0----0-----------|
------------------ ------------------|
------------------ ------------------|
You might be able to play the flourishes better if you move the
capo to the 8th fret and D chords to A chords.
The problem is you can’t play the G# in the bass
A5 A5/F# A5/G or A2 etc
---------|--------|--------- -------0--2p0---------------|
---------|--------|--------- ---0---0--------------------|
---2---2-|--2---2-|--2------ ---2---2--------------------|
---2---2-|--2---2-|--2------ ---2---2--------------------|
-0----0--|--------|--------- -0----0---------------------|
---------|?----?--|0-------- ----------------------------|
