The National - Wasp Nest Chords & Tabs

 

Wasp Nest Chords & Tabs

The National Chords & Tabs

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Wasp Nest Chords

   
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Capo 3
I use my thumb for the "F#" (the low 2).  Pull the "B" off to "A"
to add some color. More notes at the bottom.

 D5       D5/F#    D5/G       D2       D2/F#    D2/G      color
---------|--------|--------- ---0---0-|--0---0-|--0------ -0----|
---3---3-|--3---3-|--3------ ---3---3-|--3---3-|--3------ -3----|
---2---2-|--2---2-|--2------ ---2---2-|--2---2-|--2------ -4p2--|
-0----0--|--------|--------- -0----0--|--------|--------- ------|
---------|--------|--------- ---------|--------|--------- ------|
---------|2----2--|3-------- ---------|2----2--|3-------- ------|


       D5        D5/F#      D5/G
You’re cussing a storm in a cocktail dress 
     D5          D5/F#      D5/G 
your mother wore       when she was young
D5           D5/F#     D5/G
Red southern saint around   your neck
  D5     D5/F#     D5/G
A wet martini in a paper cup

            D2    D2/F#      D2/G 
You’re a wasp nest
            D2    D2/F#      D2/G 
You’re a wasp nest

     D5       D5/F#     D5/G 
Your eyes are broken bottles
D5      D5/F#       D5/G
   And I’m afraid to ask
    D5        D5/F#    D5/G
And all your wrath and cutting beauty
       D5     D5/F#         D5/G
You’re poison in the pretty glass
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/the_national/wasp_nest_crd.html ]
            D2    D2/F#      D2/G 
You’re a wasp nest
            D2    D2/F#      D2/G 
You’re a wasp nest

       D2          D2/F#     D2/G
You’re all humming      live     wires 
D2         D2/F#            D2/G
under your killing clothes.
D2       D2/F#      D2/G
Get over here, I wanna 
D2        D2/F#          D2/G
kiss your skinny throat

            D2    D2/F#      D2/G 
You’re a wasp nest
            D2    D2/F#      D2/G 
You’re a wasp nest

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Notes

There’s more than one guitar, and you start hear added notes like this.
I play this down an octave or drop the chord and move my hand up 
for a moment.

Capo 3
                    or
---0---7p5--------      ---0---0----------|
---3--------------      ---3---3----------|
---2--------------      ---2---4p2--------|
-0----0-----------      -0----0-----------|
------------------      ------------------|
------------------      ------------------|

You might be able to play the flourishes better if you move the
capo to the 8th fret and D chords to A chords.
The problem is you can’t play the G# in the bass

A5       A5/F#    A5/G     or  A2     etc            
---------|--------|---------   -------0--2p0---------------|
---------|--------|---------   ---0---0--------------------|
---2---2-|--2---2-|--2------   ---2---2--------------------|
---2---2-|--2---2-|--2------   ---2---2--------------------|
-0----0--|--------|---------   -0----0---------------------|
---------|?----?--|0--------   ----------------------------|