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The Funeral

Band of Horses

RockAdvanced for beginners10 chords

How to play it

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

BDiagram coming soon
G
D××
A×
E
G#Diagram coming soon
EbDiagram coming soon
BbDiagram coming soon
CmDiagram coming soon
Bm×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              The Funeral (Band Of Horses) 
Intro dedilhado (2X): 
 
hide this tab E|-----11------6-----1------3---3------| 
B|----13-13---8-8---3-3----4-3-4-4-----| 
G|---13------8-----3------5---5--------| 
D|-------------------------------------| 
A|-------------------------------------| 
E|-------------------------------------| 
 
 
Continua intro 
 
I'm coming up only to hold you under 
I'm coming up only to show you wrong 
And to know you is hard and we wonder 
To know you all wrong, we were 
 
Continua intro + vocalização (2X) 
 
G#           Eb       Bb          Cm      G# 
Really too late to call, so we wait for 
       Eb         Bb          Cm    G# 
Morning to wake you; it's all we got 
   Eb          Bb      Cm     G# 
To know me as hardly golden 
      Eb        Bb              Cm     G# 
Is to know me all wrong, they were 
 
Refrão: 
 
Bb                 Eb          G#        Eb 
At every occasion I'll be ready for a funeral 
Bb                 Eb          G#      Eb 
At every occasion once more is called a funeral 
Bb              Eb           G#       Eb 
Every occasion I'm ready for the funeral 
Bb                Eb              G#    Eb 
At every occasion one brilliant day funeral 
 
(Intro) 
I'm coming up only to show you down for 
I'm coming up only to show you wrong 
G#           Eb       Bb          Cm            G# 
To the outside, the dead leaves, they all blow (alive is very poetic) 
           Eb       Bb              Cm          G# 
For'e (before) they died had trees to hang their hope 
 
Vocalização ( G# Eb A Bm ) (2X) 
 
Refrão: 
 
(G# Eb Bb Cm) (4X) 
          
 

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Chord set

B · G · D · A · E · G# · Eb · Bb · Cm · Bm

Practice tip

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