Sweet Adeline Acoustic chords by Elliott Smith

Standard Tuning EADGBe


Intro/Main riff

e|------------------------------------------0-----2----|
B|------------------------------------------1-----3----|
G|----0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0---0----0--0----0-----2----|
D|--5--4--2--0--3--2--0------1--0-----------2---0------|
A|-----------------------3---------3--1--3-------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------|

Verse riff:

  Bb      Eb       D       G   G7
e|--------------------------------------------3--3--1---|
B|--------------------------------------------0--0--0---|
G|--3--3--0--0----3--3---0--0---5--3--7--7--- 0--0--0---|
D|--3--3--3--3----1--1---1--1---0--0--0--0----0--0--3---|
A|--------------------------------------------2--2--2---|
E|--------------------------------------------3--3--3---|

Verse:

Bb    Eb   D     G G7
Cut this picture into you and me,
Bb   Eb    D       G G7
Burn it backwards kill this history,
Bb   Eb  D        G G7
Make it over make it stay away,
  Bb        Eb     D          [main riff]
Or hate'll sing the ending that love started to say...


Verse 2:
     Bb     Eb       D         G  G7
There's a kid a floor below me saying brother can you spare?
Bb       Eb       D       G G7
Sunshine for a brother old man winter's in the air,
Bb       Eb  D       G G7
Walked me up a story asking how you are
Bb       Eb       D          [main riff]
Told me not to worry you were just a shooting star...


Chorus 1:

   Eb   Bb  F  G#  C#   E
Sweet Adeline
   Eb   Bb  F  G#  C#   E
Sweet Adeline
   Eb   Bb  F  G#  C#   E
My clementine
   Eb   Bb  F  G#  B   D   [main riff]
Sweet Adeline


Verse 3:

   Bb       Eb       D        G  G7
Its a picture perfect evening and i'm staring down the sun,
Bb   Eb   D         G G7
Fully loaded, deaf and dumb and done,
Bb     Eb     D       G G7
Waiting for sedation to disconnect my head,
Bb     Eb       D        G G7
Or any situation where I'm better off than dead......