Calexico — Slowness Chords
CALEXICO: Slowness
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(album: Carried to Dust, 2008)
This is a beautiful tune off the Calexico's 2008 "Carried to Dust" album. It was
nowhere to be found tabbed on the Net, so when I discovered a good solo acoustic
rendition by Calexico's own Joey Burns, it went without questioning... The video,
by the way, is here (worthwhile): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTaMaYExIjE
There are still a few parts of the song where caution is advised — in the kinda
pre—chorus line and then at the end of the chorus. Those parts are hard to figure
out from the video, but you can simply rely on my version transcribed here — it
works (I promise:—).
Juraj, Slovakia (reverend_braun@email.com)
Chords:
C Em Dm G F ?/G# Am D* Fmaj7 C/B G/B
e|——0——0——1——3——1———x——0——0———0————————————|
b|——1——0——3——3——1———x——1——3———1—————1———3——|
g|——0——0——2——0——2———x——2——0———2—————0———0——|
D|——2——2——0——0——3———x——2——4———3—————x———x——|
A|——3——2—————2——3——(3)—0——5——(3)————2———2——|
E|—(3)—0—————3——1———4—————x————————————————|
C Em
Miles of highway poppies, a stretch of maybe flowers
Dm G
Past Signal Hill a ways
C Em
We were parked and searching
Dm G
For a hubcap rolling into the fields of thorns
F G ?/G# Am D*
Although we couldn't see a thing that night
C Fmaj7 C Fmaj7
Stars still shone
C Fmaj7
In their slowness
C
And their slowness
C/B G/B C
Took us by surprise
C Em
If I never told you how you helped to rescue
Dm G
The car and all inside
C Em
Remember roads were steep and
Dm G
You and I went sliding down the grade from Gate's Pass
F G ?/G# Am D*
You asleep and me behind the wheel hovering
C Fmaj7 C Fmaj7
In that slowness
C
And that slowness
C/B G/B C
Has never gone away
(VERSE chords) [solo/melody/whistle] C Em Dm G x2
F G ?/G# Am D*
Although we couldn't see a thing that night
C Fmaj7 C Fmaj7...
Stars still shone, stars still shone, stars still shone,
C Fmaj7...
In their slowness, in their slowness, in their slowness...
C
And their slowness
C/B G/B C
Never gone awa—a—ay