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Song: Elephant Artist: Jason Isbell Album: Southeastern Tabbed by: Bryce Kujala, bryce@brycekujala.com Capo V Chords (relative to capo): Em7 G6 A7sus4 Cadd9 Dsus2 Dsus2/F# e|---0---0-----0------0------0--------0-----| B|---3---3-----3------3------3--------3-----| G|---0---0-----0------0------2--------2-----| D|---0---0-----2------2------0--------0-----| A|---2---2-----0------3------x--------x-----| E|---0---3-----x------x------x--------2-----| (Please don't tell my college music professors if I got any of those chord name wrong.) It sounds like he is doing some hammer-ons with the A string on the Em7 and the low E string on the G6. Listen to the record for the timing. Let me know if I got anything wrong. Intro: Em7 G6 A7sus4 Verse 1:
She said Em7Andy you're beG6tter than yoA7sus4ur past, Em7winked at me and G6drained her A7sus4glass, cross-Em7legged on the G6barstool, like A7sus4nobody sits anyEm7more. G6 A7sus4
She said Em7Andy you're G6taking me A7sus4home, but I Em7knew she G6planned to sleep aA7sus4lone. I'd Em7carry her to G6bed and A7sus4sweep up the hair from the Em7floor G6 A7sus4
Chorus:
If I had Cadd9fucked her before Dsus2she got sick I'd G6never Dsus2/F#hear the Em7end of it Cadd9she don't have the Dsus2spirit for that Em7now We Cadd9drink these drinks and Dsus2laugh out loud, G6bitch aDsus2/F#bout the Em7weekend crowd, and Cadd9try to ignore the Dsus2elephant someEm7how G6 A7sus4 someEm7how G6 A7sus4
Verse: She said Andy you crack me up, Seagram's in a coffee cup, sharecropper eyes and her hair almost all gone. When she was drunk she made cancer jokes, she made up her own doctor's notes, surrounded by her family, I saw that she was dying alone. Chorus: I'd sing her classic country songs and she'd get high and sing along. She don't have much voice to sing with now We'd burn these joints in effigy, cry about what we used to be, and try to ignore the elephant somehow. Somehow Chorus: I buried her a thousand times, giving up my place in line, but I don't give a damn about that now There's one thing that's real clear to me, no one dies with dignity. We just try to ignore the elephant somehow. We just try to ignore the elephant somehow. We just try to ignore the elephant somehow. Somehow. Somehow.