Tall Tales For Spring Chords

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Tall Tales For Spring by Vanessa Carlton is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords Ab, Cm, Bb, F, Ab6 and Fm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C
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16
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Ab           Cm        Bb           F 
  God rest his head Sunday afternoon 
Ab                Cm      Bb         F         Ab 
  And the wicked in me is surely the wicked in you 
         Cm           Bb         F 
Pray to a ghost that we've never met 
Ab               Cm              Bb 
  Time turns for a cure from the scientists for 
Ab6      Cm       Bb 
 Madness,  madness, of the heart 
Ab6              Cm           Bb 
 But you knew it,  you knew it  from the start 

Ab               Cm           Bb                    F 
  And Hawking will tell us no tall tales this spring 
Ab                  Cm          Bb                 F 
  Our minds hold the chaos that started everything 
Ab               Cm       Bb                 F 
  Maybe it's fate, as the sadness takes hold 
Ab                     Cm                 Bb             F 
  Still stars through a window, will they ever know this 

Ab6      Cm       Bb 
 Madness,  madness, of the heart 
Ab6              Cm           Bb 
 But you knew it,  you knew it  from the start 
Ab6               Cm      Bb 
 There's a madness, a madness of the heart 
Ab6             Cm          Bb 
 But you knew it, you knew it from the start 

F         Fm     Cm           Bb 
  Stare a sleepy smile into a sun beam 
F         Fm      Cm          Bb 
  Is this nothing more than a daydream? 
F    Fm           Cm       Bb 
  Colored stained glass cathedral 
F     Fm    Cm              Bb 
  Confess a past that won't let you go 

Ab            Cm        Bb            F 
  God rest your head Sunday afternoon 
Ab                Cm      Bb     F 
  And the wicked in me is surely coming through 
Ab        Cm                Bb    F 
  Pray to a ghost that I've never met 
Ab                    Cm       Bb         Ab6     Cm     Bb 
  Still searching for some way out of this  mess  
               Ab6     Cm     Bb 
It's the heart 
It's the heart 
Ab6               Cm        Bb 
 There's a madness, a madness in the stars 
Ab6             Cm           Bb 
 But you knew it, you knew it from the start 
    	

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