Slavin' Away The Fiery Furnaces
Band: The Fiery Furnaces
Note: This is one of my favorite songs, so I decided to tab it out.
Nothing special, just two different chord progressions throughout
the whole song. I didn't bother with the weird bass lines.
ENJOY!!!
SLAVINâ?? AWAY
Slavinâ?[Am]? away, all for [C]you my love,
and Iâ??[F]ve nothing to show for it
â??cept my dusty o[Am]ld book full of pictures.
Dusty ol[Am]d book, tell me a [C]story
â??bout how[F] I wasnâ??t so tired
[Am]
Then play this chord progression a few times
(listen to the song and it will make sense):
A, F#, D, E, A, F, E, A
*Weird bass line*
[Am]I ran off,
put o[C]n corduroy knickers that I got from the coal shoveling kid
[F]and hitch-hiked in a rickety old Ford,
[Am]hitch-hiked in a rattley old Norton side-car
[Am]â??down strange roads, in th[C]e purring rainâ??, as the poet put it,
[F]on up to St. Paul
[Am]on a cold day in the middle of the fall.
<Repeat the same chord progression (Am, C, F, Am) for the following lyrics>
And they picked me up
for not wearing a dress
and suspended my sentence
if I wore something with a strap that was pink
and I scrubbed up good on somebodyâ??s sink.
So now Iâ??ll catch the Canadian Pacific and not be too specific,
to somewhere up north,
and get into lumber and slumber when I like
and in the spring ride down into Cheyenne on my bike.
**HAPPY PART**
A, F#, D, E, A, F, E, A
**Weird bass line stuff**
Then play the same "Slavin Away" chord progression (Am, C, F, Am) for the
spoken word, and up until the happy part and you play this:
Instrumental (happy part): A, F#, D, E, A, F, E, A
Crazy dramatic part: Am, C, F, Am
[A]I could see her, [F#]looking in the mirror at me
[D]wondering if it wasnâ??t[E] plain for every[A]one tâ??seeâ??
[F]nothing ever seemed to t[E]urn out how it m[A]ight be.
***continue playing same chord progression until the grandma starts talking***
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