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April And The Phantom

Animal Collective

RockAdvanced for beginners6 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

BDiagram coming soon
F#7Diagram coming soon
F#Diagram coming soon
E
G#5Diagram coming soon
D#5Diagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              Intro: 
 
B|7-11-6-2-14-12  
 
 
 F#7                                   
When April passes by, she thinks of saying bye 
                       B          F#  
She tells her mother, I am not afraid 
(E)             (F#)   (E)                   (F#) 
Of dying in the bath, or swinging from up here 
(E)             (F#)                       F#7 
She asks her mother if she slept with strangers 
F#                F#7 
Phantom was the bright way out 
 
Of all the things her mother said 
 B             F# 
A whisper to her scream 
(E)             (F#) 
An Autumn in my green 
(E)              (F#) 
December, hello frost 
(E)                  (F#) 
Her mother would say "Dad, 
 
 
B|99    5    5     7 7   4 
I don't know where April went" 
F#7    F#  E|  4 6 
She ran out in nature! 
F#7    F#  E|  4 6 
She ran out in nature! 
F#7    F#  E|  4 6 
She ran out in nature! 
F#7    F#  E  4 6 
She ran out in nature, AH! 
 
 
F#7 
She ran out in nature??? 
 
She ran out in nature??? 
 
I found the Phantom would go 
 
Across the river and hide from all the suffering 
 
Like the shades of trees 
 
Take off my dress and flow into the stuff we're in 
 
She ran out in nature 
 
What'd she find? 
 
She ran out in nature 
 
Where'd she go? 
 
She ran out in nature 
 
Phantom light 
 
She ran out in nature 
 
Take her home 
 
 
 
  G#5    F# 
Yeaaaaaah!Everybody wants it! 
  G#5   F# 
Aaaaaaaaaaaah! Can't you see me waste it? 
 
 
F#7 
She ran out in nature??? 
 
She ran out in nature??? 
 
We've gotta buy our land 
 
When they go out and take all the stuff we're in 
 
We've got neither reachin' for the stars 
 
And beg and keep us sufferin' 
 
She ran out in nature 
 
What'd she find? 
 
She ran out in nature 
 
Where'd she go? 
 
She ran out in nature 
 
Can't somebody 
 
She ran out in nature 
 
Take her home? 
 
 
 
  G#5    F# 
Yeaaaaaah!Everybody wants it! 
  G#5   F# 
Aaaaaaaaaaaah! Can't you see me waste it? 
 
 
 B 
I finally see a baby girl, 
                                            F# 
I'm sorry April, but you'll be fine ?til then, 
 
I'm the Phantom, 
 
I'm the Phantom, 
 
I'm the Phantom, 
 B 
And I sneak around, and you're on top, 
                                     F# 
A frenzy April, let me write it down 
 
I'm the Phantom, 
 
I'm the Phantom, 
 
I'm the Phantom, 
 
 
E| 14-13-11-18-7-6-4-2 
 
 
 B 
And in the end, your mother knows, 
                                F# 
I'm sorry April, but a child grows 
 
I'm the Phantom, 
 
I'm the Phantom, 
 
I'm the Phantom, 
 
I Am? 
F# 
Watch me as I lead the way 
 
From infancy to grown up babies 
 
 
   D#5 
Phantom, please put on my make-up! 
    B 
I am breathin', I'll keep callin' 
   D#5 
Phantom, you're all white and naked! 
    B 
Have your baby, I'll keep callin' 
   D#5 
I'm not right, I'm not fakin'! 
    B 
I am burnin', and I'm shakin' 
   D#5 
April, no, it's just a spirit! 
    B 
I am there, end is nearin' 
 
 
F#                B 
April and the Phantom 
 
They were just like lovers 
F#7                                B      
Always sneakin' kisses for the weekend 
 
Everything's just okay with me 
 
Everything's just alright with? 
F#7             B 
April and the Phantom spoke in secret code 
E                 F#                B 
Until they buried Phantom by the road 
 
 
 
    B 
Everything's just alright with me 
 
Everything's just alright with Phantom 
 
 
Everything's just alright with me 
 
Everything's just alright with Phantom 
 
 
Everything's just alright with me 
 
Everything's just alright with Phantom 
 
 
Everything's just alright with me 
 
Everything's just alright with Phantom 
          
 

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Chord set

B · F#7 · F# · E · G#5 · D#5

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.