song for cleomenes
3 years ago
@Song For Cleomenes
written by John Darnielle
tabbed by Russ Sweetser (yarzrevenge@yahoo.com)You play this song with a capo on the third fret.
Similarly, you can play it without a capo, but it wont sound quite right. Assuming that the capo is the "open fret", here are the chord formats for capo on 3: capo 3 chord formations
Em(capo-C#m): X 4 6 6 5 X or without capo : X 7 9 9 8 X
D (capo-B) : X 2 4 4 3 2 : X 5 7 7 7 X
C (capo-A) : X 0 2 2 2 0 : X 3 5 5 5 X
A# (capo-G) : 3 2 0 0 3 3 : X 13 15 15 15 X
F (capo-D) : X X 0 2 3 2 : X 8 10 10 10 Xnotes for CAPO are denoted below: convert at your own risk:C# B A C# B
73 years before the advent of the christian era,
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as rome was taking over any land within reach,
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setting up proxy governmnents in the conquered lands,
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there lived one such man given just such a job.
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gaius verres. go.G A B D
G A B - B a praetor held a position which operated on trust.
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he was to govern instead of the emperor himself.
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it was an easy easy privilege to abuse.
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and verres did so.G A B B
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he was the governor of agrigentum which we now know as sicily.
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and he stole everything that wasn't nailed down,
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took improper advantage of other men's wives.
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the list goes on. trust me.cicero wrote it all down.G A B B
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at syracuse verres welcomed a band of pirates.
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they all drank and danced and
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sang on the shore, and when the husband of one of verres's paramours
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came bringing a fleet of boats with him,
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verius, clever, if diabolical, gave him a job.
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and enlisted the pirates to burn the whole fleet down.G A B D G A B D
the boats burned in the sicilian harbor
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the flames rose hundreds of feet into the air
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we stood on the shore watching them burn we
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stood on the shore, we heard the old songs. hey!
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