Who Fell Asleep In Chords

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Who Fell Asleep In by Los Campesinos! is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, Em, Am and Bb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
G
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16
Speed
  			Probably not perfect, so corrections are welcome.  
When there's a G* that means I slide my pinky up the E string  
from the 3rd fret up to the 5th, 6th, and 7th, back down to the 3rd and up to the 5th and 6th again 
before the next chord. 


                              G        G 
She turned her back on the church and put all her faith in me 
        C                           Em                    Em     G* 
At the back of the chapel where I taught her to screw and to blaspheme 
                              G                G 
We turned our backs to the church, with our trousers around our knees 
          C                             Em                 Em   G* 
While screaming the scriptures she said I was her favourite heresy 


Am 
In a note I read: 
     C 
"If you should go blind and deaf  
        G                                 Em 
I'll cleanse and I'll bathe you and I'll cook for you daily. 
        Am                            C 
I will take a dry ballpoint pen and trace on your chest 
            G                          Em 
All of the same conversations that we have now in bed." 
                     Am                       C              G 
I don't mean to be selfish; but I think I'd sooner just be dead 


C            Em            G                         C           Em       G 
Behind the tennis court alongside the river, not a single live flower to see 
C            Em            G                         C           Em          G 
This is the one girl who woke up from all that, and now falls asleep next to me 
                  Em                 G            Am                             C 
But I swear now, every time that I kiss her, she feels her god breathe on her shoulder 
                                        G 
It pains me, but I'm sure she's still yours 


                       C                Em                          G* 
She said she wanted a sea burial, not grass and hypodermics to her hips 
G                             G 
I pruned the ivy from your grandmother's tomb 
       C                             Em                                       G  Bb  G  Bb 
More tender and careful than the superstitious ripped you from your mothers womb   


Am 
In a note I wrote: 
     C                                G                       Em 
"I think too much about the end, but being around it made me feel like I'm coping. 
         Am                     C 
Now when I view the cemetery I don't see headstones, 
           G                                 Em 
I see rows of engraved milk teeth, hungry, waiting for me" 
                  Am                C                G                 
And though I am fearful, I think I just crave the relief. 


C            Em             G                         C                Em        G 
Behind the tennis court, alongside the river, paper flower's still a beautiful thing 
C            Em            G                         C          Em           G 
This is the one girl who woke up from all that, and now falls asleep next to me 
                  Em                G              Am                            C 
But I swear now, every time that I kiss her, she feels her god breathe on her shoulder 
                                        G 
It pains me, but I'm sure she's still yours. 

(slide pinky up from 3rd to 5th, 7th, 10th four times) 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante