Ritter Josh - Wolves guitar tab

Wolves

by Josh Ritter

chords dissected by Matt Rowley

(rough sketch of the) piano intro:

E---------------------------------------------

B----------------------------------------3-----

G-------------------------------2--2---2-2----

D-2---2-4-2-0---0-2--2-4-2-0----0--0---0-0----

A-------------2--------------2--0-------------

E---------------------------------------------

D (D)

I still remember that time when we were dancing

Em G

We were dancing to a song that I'd heard

D (D)

Your face was simple and your hands were naked

Em G

I was singing without knowing the words

D (D)

But I started listening to the wolves in the timber

Em G

Wolves in the timber at night

D

I heard their songs when I looked in the mirror

Em G

In the howls and the moons round my eyes

D

So long, so high

Em G

So long, so high

(X2)

D (D)

Then winter came and there was little left between us

Em G

Skin and bones of love won't make a meal

D (D)

I felt my eyes drifting over your shoulder

(Em) G

There were wolves at the edge of the field

D (D)

But I still remember that time when we were dancing

Em G

We were dancing to a song that I'd heard

D (D)

Your face was simple and your hands were naked

Em G

I was singing without knowing the words

D

So long, so high

Em G

So long, so high

(X2)

D

Then one day I just woke up

(D)

And the wolves were all there

Em

Wolves in the piano

G

Wolves underneath the stairs

D

Wolves inside the hinges

(D)

Circling round my door

Em

At night inside the bedsprings

G

Clicking cross the floor

D

I still don't know how they found me

(D)

I'll never know quite how

Em

I still can't believe they heard me

G

That I was howling out that loud

D

So long, so high

Em G

So long, so high

(X2)

[interlude, same chords]

D (D)

Sometimes in the frozen nights I go roaming

Em G

In the bed she used to share with me

D

I wake in the fields

(D)

with the cold and the lonesome

Em G

The moon's the only face that I see

D (D)

I still remember that time when we were dancing

Em G

We were dancing to a song that I'd heard

D (D)

Your face was simple and your hands were naked

Em G

I was singing without knowing the words

D

So long, so high

Em G

So long, so high

(X2)

[Outro, same chords, with some electric guitar noodling]