Free Treasure Live chords by Big Thief

• Capo on 3rd
• Difficulty: Beginner

Performance @ Nashville 2-7-2023

🎸 Verse 1:
C            G         D        G
Do you want to go to the river I know this spot so deep and green
   Em          G        D        C
With wild raspberries and apple trees and rocks to climb between
D           C  Cadd9 C
Water like a washing machine



C          G      D       G
Do you want to dance sometimes I think I try to hard
 Em           G          D             C
I trip on my shoes and I trip on my shirt get caught on the dirt in the yard
D             C
Caught on the dirt in the yard. You show me

🎸 Chorus:
C  G    C      G
Understanding, patience and pleasure
C       G  D       C
Time and attention, love without measure
D      C    Cadd9
Love without measure

🎸 Verse 2:
C       G      D            G
You're cooking dinner it's gettin around half past ten
Em            G            D           C
I haven't smelled food so good since I don't know where and I don't know when
D           C
Where and I dont know
C        G         D           G
Stove light glows like a fire we're sittin on the kitchen floor.
   Em        G          D       C
Just when I thought I couldn't feel more I feel a little more
D
feel a little

🎸 Chorus:
C  G    C      G
Understanding, patience and pleasure
C       G  D       C
Time and attention, love without measure
D      C   Cadd9
Love without measure

Instrumental 🎸 Break:

G D G Em G D C D

🎸 Verse 3:
C           G         D          G
There's a guide on the nape of my neck he hangs out there all day.
  Em       G         D        C
He quanitifies my every thought and tells me not to play
  D        C
He tells me not to play (this song)
  C       G   D          G
We lay around for hours, talk about childhood pain
Em       G       D          C
Mom and dad and past lives too I could tell you anything
D      C
I can say anything. You show me

🎸 Chorus:
C  G    C      G
Understanding, patience and pleasure
C       G  D       C
Time and attention, love without measure
D      C
Love without measure you show me

🎸 Chorus:
C  G    C      G
Understanding, patience and pleasure
C     G    D   C
the eleventh dimension, free treasure
D  C
Free treasure
D  C
Free treasure

D C D C D C D C D C D C



Playing Instructions:
Every D in this song is played as a Dadd9,11, which is just the C chord slid up two frets,
leaving the 1st and 3rd strings open.