Barcarola You Must Be A Christmas Tree – Sufjan Stevens
Nghệ sĩ: Sufjan Stevens
Hợp Âm Chuẩn
This song is in 3/4.
The first G of every stanza can be done as a little G - Gsus4 - G figure if you want some ornamentation.
Intro
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Verse→ Phiên khúc
ch]G[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch
Oh, no one else is happily
ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch
Recklessly asking for more than
ch]Dm[/ch
What they may need
ch]F[/ch
I can't say what I need
Verse 2→ Phiên khúc
ch]G[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch
Oh, temper what you say if you've
ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch
Nothing nice to say
ch]G[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch
So my grandmother says to me
ch]F[/ch
With her heart on her sleeve
Verse 3→ Phiên khúc
ch]G[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch
So, sadly I left the door
ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch
Open and I let the dog out in the snow
ch]F[/ch
Oh where did she go?
Verse 4→ Phiên khúc
ch]G[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch
Oh, father friend, will you punish me, punish me
ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch
With a look of contempt, with a look of contempt
ch]F[/ch
I can recall
Verse 5→ Phiên khúc
ch]G[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch
Oh, I know you did right by me, right by me
ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch
Wagging your hands when you found me
ch]F[/ch
With a bag of your things
Verse 6→ Phiên khúc
ch]G[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch
Please, please don't be a stranger here
ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch
A stranger who takes from the world
ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch
Who takes from the world
Verse 7→ Phiên khúc
ch]G[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch
You, you must be a Christmas tree, a Christmas tree
ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch
You light up the room, oh, you light up the room
ch]F[/ch
Oh you light up the room
Verse 8→ Phiên khúc
ch]G[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch
So, suddenly you kiss me
ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch
You tickled me in front of your mother
ch]Dm[/ch
Who looked away
ch]F[/ch
With her hands on her face
Instrumental break
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(quietly, building over next four stanzas)
ch]G[/ch
Don't run away my friend
ch]Dm[/ch
You won't be back again
ch]C[/ch
You said you needed me
ch]G[/ch
But I know that you needed yourself to be cleaned of me
ch]G[/ch
Don't run away my friend
ch]Dm[/ch
You won't be back again
ch]C[/ch
You said you needed me
ch]G[/ch
But I know that you needed yourself to be cleaned of me
ch]G[/ch
Don't run away my friend
ch]Dm[/ch
You won't be back again
ch]C[/ch
You ran your hands through my hair in the snow
ch]G[/ch
Where the frost of it blows with the terrible ghost
ch]G[/ch
Don't run away my friend
ch]Dm[/ch
You won't be back again
ch]C[/ch
You said you needed me
G (hold)
But I know...
Instrumental break
G - G7 - Dm - F, repeat ad infinitum