Patience Of Angels chords by Hewerdine Boo

Patience of Angels (Boo Hewerdine)
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Written & performed by Boo Hewerdine, but I don't know of a recording of it by
him. Eddi Reader has recorded it, it's on her first album (called Eddi
Reader!)


      G        D         C          D
  From the top of the   bus      she ....

[Chorus]:
       G    D          C      D
That it would try    the patience of ....

      G        D        C          D
  And you know something's wrong when the ....

[Chorus]

      G     D        C     D
 There's a door in a wall in a    house in a ....


      G      D         C     D
Does she  know? I don't know  but from ....



Strumming is:

   |x-----------------x-x------x--------x--------x--------|   = 1 bar
beats 1    2    3    4    5    6

6 beats per bar, one chord per bar. Play the 6th beat as the top 4 strings
open (DGBe = ?Gadd6) in every bar. (This sounds right and it gives you ages to
make the chord change!)

Suggest picking out the lines marked < x > by singing them an octave higher
than the rest.

Chords are standard (open) fingerings.

This G D C D stuff is a bit of an oversimplification. Live, there seems to be
some melody going on on the top two strings, but I haven't worked out what
he's doing. Still, this should be enough to carry the tune in the
Underground/Subway!

Boo plays this live in Db (capo at 6th fret), Eddi Reader's album version is
in Bb (capo 3), I can't get above B (Capo 4) if I'm going to hit the next
octave in the vocal- just play it in as high a key as you can.

Also, if it's quiet you can try an arpeggio intro:

   E ----------3------------------2----------------0---------------2-----
||
   B ------------3--------------2---3----------------1-----------2---3---
||
   G
--------------4----------3-------2----------0-----0-------3-------2-.||
   D
--------5-----------0---------------------2-----------0-------------.||
   A ------5-------------------------------3-----------------------------
||
   E -3------------------------------------------------------------------
||
     G(barre 3)     D         C        D


All comments, corrections, improvements etc. welcome.

Nic

Nic.Boulton@mercury.co.uk