Wallflowers

Wallflowers - Ashes To Ashes guitar chord

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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 95 13:31:32 EDT

From: Winston Campbell

Subject: ASHES TO ASHES by The Wallflowers

Ashes To Ashes

(words & music by Jakob Dylan)

Basically the rhythm guitar for this song is played in a power chord fashion.

I will not transcribe it like that because the organ plays regular chord

shapes.  Just like father like son, I have a bit of the problem understanding

what Dylan is saying but I will try my best:

Intro:  F    Em    Am  (4x)

             F                     Em                Am

Well you can walk like a stranger, head back in your hair

         F                    Em    Am

Bringing gifts, while you act so sincere

F    Em    Am        F    Em    Am

         F            Em          Am

Bringing gifts, oh boy, he~s five years

           F         Em        Am

A game for rocks and traini...ing wheels

F    Em    Am        F    Em    Am

Am

               C      G        F   G        Em

Well I don~t remember you from any of those books

         C          G        F          G         Em   E

Ashes to ashes, and six feet under face down in a box

F                Em                    Am

Where~d you ever learn to treat me like that

F    Em    Am        F    Em    Am

          F               Em                 Am

You don~t see that, baby ahh..., that famous stuff

             F             Em                 Am

You know the Harvard folds law, that penniless rough

F    Em    Am        F    Em    Am

     F                Em                 Am

Your bad luck follows you like a heart attack

           F                Em        Am

Twist your fingers, soon as break your back

F    Em    Am        F    Em    Am

Am

               C      G        F   G        Em

Well I don~t remember you from any of those books

         C          G        F          G         Em   E

Ashes to ashes, and six feet under face down in a box

F                Em                    Am

Where~d you ever learn to treat me like that

F    Em    Am

     F                            Em                     Am

It~s coming from another withered mother who~s just like yours

             F                 Em       Am

Bringing you aches and all those mental sores

F                      Em                Am

Take a little half, so need some for yourself

        F                          Em               Am

Like an itty in the gritty, they always seem by themselves

         F                 Em       Am

Well you must be, had-to-be, one of these

              F           Em    Am

Honey, on the shed on the open tree

F                 Em               Am

Didn~t I meet you once in a liquor store

                  F              Em    Am

I think I saw you hanging by the stage door

            F               Em         Am

Handing out programs to the family theater

            F           Em             Am

Deprive the row, so you don~t miss her or treat her

Am    Am    Am    Am

You take it

Am

Why take it?

G

Fast and ever

       F        Em      Dm

If you gave yourself a chance...

     C         G      F        G            Em

Well I don~t remember you from any of those books

                   C    G      F         G         Em   E

Ashes to, ashes and six feet under faced down in a box

F                Em                    Am

Where~d you ever learn to treat me like that?

F    Em    Am...

(the song fades out on these chords)

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