Sadie Chords

KeyG Capo4st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays418

Sadie by Joanna Newsom is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 4st fret. It uses the chords G, Bm, C, D, Am, Gmaj7 and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			I used Hackenbush's tab, which is great by the way, I just made it into basic chords. 

Song is in 3/4 --  
 


G  Bm  C  Bm      
Sadie, white coat 
G       Bm      C       Bm 
you carry me home 
       G  Bm  C  Bm 
And bury this bone  
        G       Bm      C       Bm 
and take this pine cone 

Bm D      Am C   
Bury this bone to  
G             Gmaj7 
Gnaw on it later 
Em 
Gnawing on the telephone 
Bm      D               Am              C 
Until then, we pray and suspend 
       G                Gmaj7      Em 
The notion that these lives do never end 

G 
And all day long we talk about mercy 
G                                    C          D       G 
Lead me to water, Lord, I sure am thirsty 
G 
Down in the ditch where I nearly served you 
G                                    C          D       G 
Up in the clouds where he almost heard you 

C 
And all that we built and all that we breathed 
Em 
And all that we spilt, or pulled up like weeds 
G                                  C            D         G 
Is piled up in back and it burns irrevocably 
Em                                            C         D               G 
And we spoke up in turns 'til the silence crept over me 

G               Bm              C       Bm        
And bless you, and I deeply do 
                G    Bm  C  Bm    
No longer resolute, oh and I call to you 
G          Bm   C  Bm     
But the water go so cold 
          G       Bm    C            Bm 
And you do lose what you don't hold 

              Bm        D       Am              C 
This is an old song, these are old blues 
        G               Gmj7            Em 
And this is not my tune, but it's mine to use 
           Bm         D         Am                      C 
And the seabirds where the fear once grew 
G                       Gmaj7           Em 
Will flock with a fury and they will bury what'd come for you 

G 
And down where I darn with the milk-eyed mender 
G                       C       D       G 
You and I, and a love so tender 
G 
Stretched on a hoop where I stitched this adage: 
G                               C       D               G 
"Bless our house and its heart so savage" 

C 
And all that I want, and all that I need 
Em 
And all that I've got is scattered like seed 
G                               C               D        G 
And all that I knew is moving away from me 
Em                              C               D               G 
And all that I know is blowing like tumbleweed 

        G               Bm              C               Bm 
And the mealy worms in the brine will burn 
        G       Bm              C                  Bm 
In a salty pyre among the fauns and ferns 
             G          Bm                  C           Bm 
And the love we hold, and the love we spurn 
                G       Bm      C       Bm 
Will never grow cold, only taciturn 
        G       Bm      C       Bm 
And I'll tell you tomorrow 
G       Bm      C               Bm 
Sadie, go on home now 
        G       Bm              C               Bm 
And bless those who've sickened below 
        G       Bm              C               Bm 
And bless us who have chosen so 

C 
And all that I've got and all that I need 
Em 
I tie in a knot and I lay at your feet 
G                                       C         D                G 
And I have not forgot, but a silence crept over me 
Em                              C                       D               G 
So dig up your bone, exhume your pine cone, my Sadie 
    	

Chord diagrams

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100 BPM Andante