Act Of The Apostle Chords & Tabs
Act Of The Apostle Chords
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The notes in parenthesis are just notes, not chords.
The G chord before (f#-f-e d-e-d) is played very briefly before the notes come in.
It probably doesn't really matter if you play the G at all, but I think it's there.
I think this sounds best with the recording if you barre G and Cm, and mute the E
string in the Cm, if you're playing guitar, that is...
intro riff is (d-f-d g g d-f-d)
g Cm
Morning prayers took the girl unawares
f C
She was late for class and she knew it
g Cm
The broadcaster had a voice that was soothing
f C
She couldn’t tell if it was a man or wo-man
A C g (f#-f-e d-e-d)
A patch of sun fell onto her neck
A C g (f#-f-e d-e-d)
She put her head on her arms on her desk
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/b/belle_and_sebastian/act_of_the_apostle_crd.html ]
g Cm
The lesson today was Acts of Apostles
f C
The crazy hippies, they’re running scared
g Cm
She shut her eyes and imagined the desert
f C
No cars, no mobiles, just sun and bread
A C g (f#-f-e d-e-d)
What would she look like standing by the well?
A C g (f#-f-e d-e-d)
More like a women and less like a girl
Bb Eb
“Oh, if I could make sense of it all!
Bb Eb
I wish that I could sing. I’d stay in a melody
Bb
I would float along in my everlasting song
Am (c-b C-b) d
What would I do to believe?”
intro notes again: d-f-d g g d-f-d
g Cm
Later on she plays Morning Has Broken
f C
She knows she’s bad. She is slowing everbody down
g Cm
The choirmaster, usually a bastard,
f C
knows her mother’s sick. He’ll be nice to her.
A C g (f#-f-e d-e-d)
She thinks that she shouldn’t be there at all
A C g (f#-f-e d-e-d)
Her worries make everything else seem trivial
Bb Eb
“Oh, if I could make sense of it all!
Bb Eb
I wish that I could sing. I’d stay in a melody
Bb
I would float along in my everlasting song
Am (c-b C-b) d
What would I do to believe?”
Repeat A few more times: Am (c-b C-b) d
