Song: Waltz #2 (XO)
Artist: Elliott Smith
Album: XO
To play this song exactly like on the album recording, you need to tune your guitar a
full step down.
Of course there are two or three guitars used, but I´m just gonna write down the main
chords and little bits so you can play the song pretty much on one guitar.
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INTRO
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|------------|------------|------------|------2-2-2-|
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|------------|------------|------------|------0-0-0-|
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Drum intro
(I´m not gonna go into all the details of strumming etc)
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|1-----------|------------|------1-1-1-|1-----------|
|0-----------|------------|------0-0-0-|0-----------|
|2-----------|------------|------2-2-2-|2-----------|
|3-----------|--------2---|3-----3-3-3-|3-----------|
|------------|3-----------|------------|------0-3-4-|
VERSE
First the mic, then a half cigarette
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Singing Cathy´s Clown That´s the
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Man she´s married to now
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That´s the girl that he takes around town,
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She appears composed, so she is I suppose
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Who can really tell ? She
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Shows no emotion at all
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Stares into space like a dead china doll
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CHORUS
I´m never gonna know you know
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|2-----------|0-----------|2-----------|0-----------| complicated here
|2-----------|2-----------|3-----------|2-----------| but whatever
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But I´m gonna love you anyhow
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|0-----------|------------|------0-0-0-|0-----------|
|2-----------|------------|------2-2-2-|2-----------|
|3-----------|--------2---|3-----3-3-3-|3-----------|
|------------|3-----------|------------|------0-3-4-|
VERSE GUITAR REPEATS
Now she´s done and they´re calling someone
Such a familiar name
I´m so glad that my memory´s remote
Cos I´m doing just fine hour to hour, note to note
Here it is, the revenge to the tune
"You´re no good,
You´re no good, you´re no good, you´re no good"
Can´t you tell that it´s well understood?
CHORUS
I´m never gonna know you know
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But I´m gonna love you anyhow
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THING
I´m here today and expected to stay
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On and on and on
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VERSE GUITAR REPEATS
Looking out on the substitute scene
Still going strong
XO, Mom
It´s ok, it´s all right, nothing´s wrong
Tell Mr. Man with impossible plans to just leave me alone
In the place where I make no mistakes
In the place where I have what it takes
CHORUS GUITAR REPEATS
I´m never gonna know you now
But I´m gonna love you anyhow
I´m never gonna know you now
But I´m gonna love you anyhow
I´m never gonna know you now
But I´m gonna love you anyhow
End on
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