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LEAST COMPLICATED (Emily Saliers)
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[Capo 2; each chord is about half a measure.]
[Emily plays this in A with no capo; Amy plays it in G with a capo on
 the second fret.  Note that I wrote down Amy's chords, even though in
 the intro, and in parts of the first verse and last verse, Amy doesn't
 even play.  So, if you want to play Emily's chords, transpose everything
 up a whole step.  A rough draft of Emily's picking pattern for the intro
 and first and last verse is at the end.]
[Amy might play the Gsus as 302013; it looks like she moves two fingers.]
[The G7 is never actually played by Amy or Emily; without the mandolin
 and pennywhistle, they just play G chords there.  But the F notes on the
 mandolin and whistle turn it into G7.]
 
G  Gsus  G  G(9)
[intro]
 
        G         Gsus         G   G(9)
I sit 2 stories above the street
           G                Gsus         G    G
It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep
                    Am7          G/B
There's life down below me though
C                  D                G   Gsus  G  G(9)
  The kids are walking home from school
 
        G         Gsus         G   G
So long ago when we were taught
             G            Gsus              G   G
That for whatever kind of puzzle you've got
                          Am7       G/B
You just stick the right formula in
    C           D     G   Gsus  G  G
A solution for every fool
 
                D          D         C       C
I remember the time when I came so close to you
        G             G        Am7            Am7
Sent me skipping my class and running from school
      C                C           D [tacet]
And I bought you that ring cause I never was cool
                G             D            C(9)
What makes me think I could start clean slated
    C(9)         D [tacet]                 G7  G  G7  G   G7  G  G7  G
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
 
          G             Gsus         G   G
Oh I just sit up in the house and resist
           G            Gsus       G   G
And not be seen until I cease to exist
                          Am      G/B
A kind of conscientious objection
C           D           G7  G  G7  G
  A kind of dodging the draft
 
            G                Gsus            G   G
The boy and girl are holding hands on the street
                  G         Gsus          G   G
And I don't want to but I think you just wait
                    Am        G/B
It's more than just eye-to-eye
            C             D        G   G   G   G
Learn the things I could never apply
 
                    D          D         C       C
And I remember the time when I came so close with you
      G           G               Am7        Am7
I let everything go it seemed the only truth
      C                C                  D [tacet]
And I bought you that ring; it seemed the thing to do
                G             D           C(9)
What makes me think I could start clean slated
    C(9)         D [tacet]                 G    G
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
                   G             D           C(9)
So what makes me think I could start clean slated
    C(9)         D            D            G    G
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
 
     Am7           Am7         Bm7(4)      G
Ohhhhh, I'm just a mirror of a mirror of myself
C           D            G   G
  All the things that I do
        Em           Em             Bm         Bm
And the next time I fall, I'm gonna have to recall
         C          C/B  Am7   Am7/G   D    D - Dsus   D [tacet]
It isn't love, it's only something    new      
 
        G         Gsus         G   G(9)
I sit 2 stories above the street
           G                Gsus         G    G
It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep
                    Am7          G/B
There's life down below me though
C                 D                 G   Gsus   G   G
  The kids are walking home from school
 
                    D          D         C         C
And I remember the time when I came so close with you
        G             G        Am7            Am7
Sent me skipping my class and running from school
      C                C           D [tacet]
And I bought you that ring cause I never was cool
                G             D            C(9)
What makes me think I could start clean slated
    C(9)         D             D           G    G
The hardest to learn was the least complicated   
                   G             D           C(9)
So what makes me think I could start clean slated
    C(9)         D [tacet]                G7   G   G7  G
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
              G7   G   G7  G
Least complicated
              G [tacet; single notes: F-F-F-E-D, D-E-F-F-F-E-D-C-D etc.]
Least complicated       (Na naa, na na na na naaaa...)


This is the bare bones of Emily's picking pattern; flesh it out however you
want, and if you figure it out completely, let me know.  The equal signs are
hammer-ons, and the carets and periods are timing markers.
  A                  Asus           A         A(9)
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B --------2-------|2=3---2---3-----|----------0-----|0=2---0-------0-|
G ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------2-----|
D ----2-------2---|----2-------2---|----2-------2---|----2-------2---|
A 0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  



- Adam Schneider, schn0170@maroon.tc.umn.edu