This is an update from thuggolfer's version. I just gave the "F1"s and "G"s their
real names, so the transpose feature would work.
This is a work in progress. 3/3/14
Dm C [ch]Fmaj/C[/ch] Dm
As you lie before me now, like a shadow
Dm [ch]Fmaj/C[/ch] C Dm
on a pea green sea
[ch]Fmaj/C[/ch] Dm
Never thought that I could find you so hollow
C Dm
Laying into me
F E
But this cup of wine
Am G
All salt and brine makes me sleepy
D
A sorrow so
F E Am G
A field of tears, that will never yield a single penny
D F
But I don't know
E Am
I've got nothing to hold on to
Dm C [ch]Fmaj/C[/ch] Dm
Wished for gold so I could buy you a palace
C Dm
By the riverside
[ch]Fmaj/C[/ch] Dm
You'd come in and I would fill your diamond chalice
C Dm
You were still alive
F E
But this cup of wine
Am G
All salt and brine makes me sleepy
D
A sorrow so
F E Am G
A field of tears, that will never yield a single penny
D
But I don't know
F E Am G D
I've got nothing to hold on to
F E Am
I've got nothing to hold on to
Amx4
Am | F | G | Am
Am | F | G | G-G#-Am
F G Am
Were you sleepless, tearing at the air?
Am F G G G#
Was the water everywhere?
Am F G Am
Were you fretful, to wade into the room?
Am F G G G#
I'd been wanting to hear from you
Am
Oh, no
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/d/decemberists/sleepless_crd.html ]
F | G | F | C (Same timing as G > G# > Am)
C
Hand it over (hand it over)
Am
Hand it over (oh)
F
You're weary, lay him down
G
You did your time so thank you very much
C
Hand it over (hand it over)
Am
Hand it over (oh)
F G
So now your hopes are all laid
G# Am
But you hand it all away
Am | F | G
Am | F | G - G#
Am F G
Did his eyelids fix on empty chairs
Am F G G#
You had traveled to lay beside?
Am F G Am
A gentle torture to watch it all recede
Am F G G# Am F
And all the while your mother slept beside him
G F
Oh, no
C
Hand it over (hand it over)
Am
Hand it over (oh)
F
You're weary, lay him down
G
You did your time so thank you very much
C
Hand it over (hand it over)
Am
Hand it over (oh)
F G
So now your hopes are all laid
G# Am
But you hand it all away
Am | F | G | Am
Am | F | G | G G# | Am
Am F G Am
Were you sleepless, tearing at the air?
F G G#
Was the water everywhere?
Am F G Am
Were you fearful, and long to run away
F G
From the cold clasp of Illinois?
G# Am
Oh, no
F G F
Oh, No
C
Hand it over (hand it over)
Am
Hand it over (ooooooh)
F
You're weary, lay him down
G
You did your time so thank you very much
C
Hand it over (hand it over)
Am
Hand it over (oh)
F G
So now your hopes are all laid
G# Am F G
But you hand it all away
G# Am
But you hand it all away
F G G# C
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh
Am | F | G | C
