The Plains Bitter Dancer
Fleet Foxes Key
Bm
Scroll
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A|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------|
B|-7-5-3-0-0--7-5-3-0-0--9-7-10-12-9-7-5-7-9-7-5-7-7-|
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bitter dancer
Em riff 1 (picking) (you can also play this riff in fast triplets)
E|---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0--0---0---0---0---0---0-|
B|---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0--0---0---0---0---0---0-|
G|-----0---------------0-------0-------0--------------0-------0---|
D|-------------2---0-------4-------2------0-----------------------|
A|-2-------4----------------------------------4---2-------2-------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------|
Em
riff 1
E|---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0--0---0---0---0---0---0-|
B|---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0--0---0---0---0---0---0-|
G|-----0---------------0-------0-------0--------------0-------0---|
D|-------------2---0-------4-------2------0-----------------------|
A|-2-------4----------------------------------4---2-------2-------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------|
Em
riff 1
Just as the sand made everything round
Em
riff 1
Just as the tar seeps up from the ground
E F# G
* * *
bitter dancer, ever turning
Em
riff 1
so was the day that you came to town
Em riff 2 (play this melody while strumming softly the Em chord)
E|------------------------------|
B|------------------------------|
G|------------------------------|
D|-------2-0---4---2---0--------|
A|-2---4-----------------4-2----|
E|------------------------------|
Em
riff 2
E|------------------------------|
B|------------------------------|
G|------------------------------|
D|-------2-0---4---2---0--------|
A|-2---4-----------------4-2----|
E|------------------------------|
Em
riff 2
you took a room and you settled in
Em
riff 2
washed off the chalk from your weathered skin
E F# G
* * *
daylight sleeper, bloody reaper
Em
riff 2
you took a room and you settled in
Em
riff 2 (2x)
(flute solo)
Em
riff 2
i should have known one day you would come
Em
riff 2
all of us walk so blind in the sun
E F# G
* * *
midnight feeder, beggar, pleader
Em
riff 2
i should had known one day you would come
Em
riff 2
(flute solo)
E F# G A G F# G
* * * * **
tell me again my only son
Dsus2 F G F Em
* * * riff 2
tell me again what have you done
Em
riff 2
(flute solo)
F#m G F#m
at arm's lengths
G Dsus2 G6
*
i will hold you there
Dsus2 G6
there
Dsus2 G6
Dsus2 G6
Dsus2 G6
Dsus2 G6
F#m G F#m
at arm's lengths
G Dsus2 G6
*
i will hold you there
Dsus2 G6
there
Chords Used