Anecdotes chords by Joanna Newsom

Probably best if you listen to the song for timings as its quite difficult at times.

 Ab      Eb     Db
 Sending the first scouts over
 Ab       Eb    Db
 Back from the place beyond the dawn:
 Ab        Eb  Db
 Horse, bear your broken soldier
 Ab     Eb   Db
 Eyes frozen wide at what went on
   Ab      Eb   Db
 And Time, in our camp, is moving
Ab     Eb  Db
 As you’d anticipate it to
   Ab      Eb  Db
 But what is this sample proving?
 Ab    Eb   Bb        Db
 Anecdotes cannot say what Time may do

 Db Fm Eb Ab Eb Db C G Am G


 C     Bb   Ab  G
 I kid with Rufus Night-jar
     Fm      Ab
 When our men are all asleep:
   C   Bb    Ab    G
 It ain’t about how rare you are
     Fm       Ab
 But how hard you are to see
Eb       Ab Db
 Take, you and me—
 F          C
 “When are you from?” said he
    Am       G
 In our blind of winter leaves


    F#m        G
 As we sighted out their fliers
    F#m       G
 In the greyscale of the night
   F#m      G
 And fumbled on the bare ground
  F#m     G
 To bury round landmines
      A F# Bm C        D  Bb
 While the deeeeeew lay down and dried


 D Bb D Bb C


 C     Bb   Ab G
 We signal Private Poorwill
   Fm        Ab
 When morning starts to loom:
 C    Bb    Ab   G
 “Pull up from your dive!” till,
  Fm        Ab      Eb     Ab  Db
 We hear the telltale boom too soon, hotdogging loon,
 F         C     Am    G
 caught there Like a shard of mirror in the moon!


   F#m          G
 Now they’ve stopped giving orders
    F#m    G
 But I follow anyway
 F#m       G
 Laying in our state of torpor
 F#m       G
 Waiting out the day
      A F# Bm C    D  Bb
 While the deeeeeew burns away


 D Bb D Bb Ab G


 Fm    Eb    Bb   Db
 Rushing, tearing, speeding home:
 Fm     Eb      Bb   Db
 Bound to a wheel that is not my own
    Fm     Eb  Bb    Db
 Where round every bend I long to see
 Fm    Eb Bb  Db
 Temporal infidelity


 Fm      Eb     Bb      Db
 All along the road, the lights stream by
 Fm    Eb      Bb     Db
 I want to go where the dew won’t dry
 Fm    Eb      Bb     Db
 I want to go where the light won’t bend—
 Fm    Eb    Bb   Db
 Far as the eye may reach—nor end


   Fm Eb    Bb      Db
 But, inasmuch as that light is loaned
   Fm Eb   Bb       Db
 And, insofar as we’ve borrowed bones
 Fm     Eb    Bb  Db
 Must every debt now be repaid
   Fm      Eb   Bb      Db
 In star-spotted, sickle-winged night raids
     Fm     Eb       Bb      Db
 While we sing to the garden, and we sing to the stars
Fm         Eb      Bb    Db
 And we sing in the meantime wherever you are?


    Fm      Eb    Bb       Db
 In the folds and the branches somewhere out there
Fm      Eb     Bb   Db
 I was only just born into open air
   Fm      Eb    Bb       Db
 Now hush, little babe, you don’t want to be
 Fm     Eb     Bb       Db
 Down in the trenches remembering with me


    Ab      Eb  Db
 Where you will not mark my leaving
Ab         Eb      Db
 And you will not hear my parting song
 Ab      Eb   Db
 Nor is there cause for grieving
 Ab      Eb    Bb
 Nor is there cause for carrying on
   Ab       Eb   Db
 And daughter, when you are able
 Ab      Eb      Db
 Come down and join! The kettle’s on
      Ab    Eb    Db
 And your family’s round the table
Ab      Eb    Bb       Db
 Will you come down, before the sun is gone?


 Db Fm Eb Ab Eb Db C G Am G

 F#m G (x4)

 A F# Bm C

 D Bb D Bb D Bb