Graveclothes

Birdtalker

PopEasy for beginners4 chords

How to play it

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

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

 
              Intro: G  Em 
 
G                              C                   G 
She's been thinkin' life ain't givin' her what she needs 
                          C                    Em 
What could make her happy is always out of her reach 
                 G     
Yeah, somebody's gotta help me 
G                          C                 G 
But she could not see that everything she wanted 
                         C                        Em 
Was inside of her heart, but she wouldn't give it away 
        C                G 
No, she wouldn't give it away 
 
G 
We don't need no mournful sound 
G 
Shake your graveclothes to the ground 
Em 
Shake your graveclothes off, shake your graveclothes 
Em 
Shake your graveclothes off, shake your graveclothes 
G 
Thoughts you're thinkin' make you feel like you're dead 
G 
But you can grow a garden out the top of your head 
Em 
Shake your graveclothes off, shake your graveclothes 
Em                                                    G 
Shake your graveclothes off, shake your graveclothes 
 
G 
Don't get lost inside your head 
G 
Don't get lost inside your head 
Em 
Don't get lost inside your head 
Em 
Don't get lost inside your head 
 
G                            C                      G 
He's been wishin' he was the best and the brightest 
                                  C                   Em 
Scared to give what he's got, no, he wouldn't give it away 
    C                   G 
No, he wouldn't give it away 
 
G                                     C            G 
Self-deprecation, lack of motivation, stealing his aliveness 
G                                                      Em 
In the silence love abounds and has already filled the spaces 
                                                      C        C7 
And replaces them with grace if he would only stop to feel, to see 
 
G     
We don't need no mournful sound 
G 
Shake your graveclothes to the ground 
Em 
Shake your graveclothes off, shake your graveclothes 
Em 
Shake your graveclothes off, shake your graveclothes 
G 
Thoughts you're thinkin' make you feel like you're dead 
G 
But you can grow a garden out the top of your head 
C 
Shake your graveclothes off, shake your graveclothes 
C 
Shake your graveclothes off, shake your graveclothes 
C 
Shake your graveclothes off, shake your graveclothes 
C 
Shake your graveclothes off, shake your graveclothes 
 
( G  C  G )

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Chord set

G · Em · C · C7

Practice tip

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