Springfield Or Bobby Got A Shadfly Caught In His Hair Chords
Springfield Or Bobby Got A Shadfly Caught In His Hair by Sufjan Stevens is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords E, C, G, D, Em and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro and verse, hammer part
E C G D
e----------------------------------------------------x---|
b---------------------------1------------------------3---|
g--4p0--2p0--0--------------0--------------0---------2---|
d-------------2-------2-----2---0h2-0------0------0------|
a-------------2--0h2--------3--------------x--0h2--------|
e-------------0----------------------------3-------------|
W/ hammers:
Em
I don't care to say what
C G D
I failed to recognize
Em C G D
Every single day from the poker to the prize
W/o hammers:
Em
Running out of Springfield
C G D
I worked for the Capitol Air in the {bags?}
Em C
Found a woman there who said
G D
She had a mind to make me a messenger man
G---0---2---4-----------
Am G D
If my father took his life for national plan
I don't care
Am G D
I'm not about to stake my grave with a paper and a bucket of plans
Never ever
Am
I can take the pillowcases off the yellow pillows
G D
Make a property line from the bed
Am
In the living room, the living room, the morning papers
G D
Make the most out of nothing at all
W/ hammers:
Em C G D
So we took the room with a view of the run{a}way
Em C G D
I took off my clothes and she took it for a holiday
(solo)
W/o hammers:
Em C G D
I was taken for all the things that I never had before
Em
Running out of Springfield
C G D
She left me with a note saying "Bobby don't look back"
G---0---2---4-----------
Am G D
And if my wife took a bicycle ride with a knife in her hand
I saw it coming
Am G D
All the shadflies run at once with a trumpet or a train
Oh I'm running from it
Am
Wait a minute, wait a minute
G D
Give a minute, baby, I can explain the aftershave
Am
Wait a minute, wait a minute, give a minute
G D
Bobby got a shadfly caught in his hair