Les accords de mon album préféré du moment // « Ready for the Flood » tabs and lyrics (Mark Olson & Gary Louris) • 06.01.09
Voilà, j’ai longtemps cherché sur le web et j’ai rien trouvé, donc je me suis collé l’album entier (sauf une chanson). Voici donc les paroles et les accords de l’album « Ready for the Flood » de Gary Louris & Mark Olson (The Jayhawks).
Si vous voulez acheter l’album, je ne peux que vous recommander le CD physique, la pochette étant tout simplement sublime !
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I’ve been searching all over the world wide web and I haven’t found them, so I thought I’d share them with you on my blog. Here are the chords and the lyrics for the album « Ready for the Flood » by Gary Louris & Mark Olson (The Jayhawks). I hope you enjoy them!
If you want to buy their album, I can only recommend you the physical cd, because the cover is a gem.

Ready for The Flood, Gary Louris & Mark Olson
The Rose Society
(Intro)
G Gsus4 G
(Verse 1)
G C G
The look on your face when you start to remember
Em C D
Were you a member of the rose society?
G C
You’re fishing in a muddy stream
G C
The dirty waters that you brought home
Em C D
There, for everyone to see
(Chorus)
Am C
Where does time take your garden?
G D
The house of love still standing
Am C
Your garden abandoned
G F Em
Ooo
G F Em A
Ooo
C D
(Verse 2)
G C G
You’re good enough now for the rose society
Em C D
You’re already there, there by me
G C
And your secrets buried in the ground
G C
And you wash and wash the muddy waters down
Em C D
By your side I always want to live
(Chorus)
(Last Chorus)
Am C
Where does time take your garden?
G D
The house of love still standing
Am C
Your garden abandoned
G F
The house of love still standing
G F
The house of lov’s there standing
G F
The house of love still standing
Em A
Bicycle
(Intro)
C F (2x) (play with your index on this intro and you’ll see, it’ll do the trick)
(Verse 1)
C F
What became of your decision to upset the cart so willing?
Am F
Hallelujah
C F
All the appels fell out on the highway, a little scared, a mighty upstart
Am F
Hallelujah
C F
Another trip to someone else’s dark side, another come-on false love
Am F
Hallelujah
G
Oh yeah
(Chorus)
C F
It’s hard to ride at night
C G F
On your bicycle with no lights to guide
(F) C F
Just take a chance and ride
C G F
On your bicycle, with no lights to guide
F Em Dm G
(verse 2)
C F
Get to where you want to stay, a puppet tent in another state
Am F
Hallelujah
C F
Walk in the apple blossoms up to your shoulder, you and I really did see our side
Am F
Hallelujah
C F
What to think? Who to know? Who really minds some obscene phone calls?
Am F
Hallelujah
G
Oh yeah
(Chorus )
Turn Your Pretty Name Around
(Intro)
Fsus2 Bb (2x)
Dm
(Verse 1)
Dm F
And then came disappointment
Bb F
A path for my feet
F C
When I was around you
Bb F
What’s found is yours to keep
(Verse 2)
Dm F
Say that I’m your one and only
Bb F
This love I have for you
F C
I must have watched from your garden
Bb F
Oh say you’ll come to stay
(Chorus)
Fsus2 Bb
You’ve gone and let someone turn your pretty name around
C Bb F
(Verse 3)
Dm F
Many times that I’ve wondered
Bb F
Bout what’s right for me to do
F C
Stand out on my corner
Bb F
Hoping my streets will lead to you
(Verse 4)
Dm F
Just this side of your glory
Bb F
Like the time and time before
F C
Never meant to beg or borrow
Bb F
Sleep outside your hidden door
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
Bb Fsus2
When we put our arms round each other
Dm C
It’s not hard to tell
Bb C
That you’re loving someone else
Saturday Morning on Sunday Street
Capo V (5)
(Intro)
Am Am/G Dsus2 (2x)
(Verse 1)
Am Am/G Dsus2
Stole my dreams, Stole my dreams, Stole my dreams
Am Am/G Dsus2
Sold my shoes, Sold my shoes, Sold my shoes,
G C G
If you’re going to live in Memphis
G C G
No idea who you’re talking to
(Verse 2)
Am Am/G Dsus2
Steal your cars, Steal your cars, Steal your cars,
Am Am/G Dsus2
Sell your news, Sell your news, Sell your news,
G C G
New friends walk beside the road
G C G
It’s just the idea of what some people will do
(Chorus)
Am D
I’ve been walking in circles
D Am
A new start and a new place to live
Am Am/B C
Saturday morning on Sunday Street
Em Em6 Em Em6
How I long to be there
(Verse 3)
Am Am/G Dsus2
Making out, Making out, Making out,
Am Am/G Dsus2
Door to door, Door to door, Door to door,
G C G
Are we going to find each other?
G C G
In this great big dark of night
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
Em A Em A C
Where to go you’ve gone, you’ve gone your way
Em A Em A C
Slip or trip, you’ll never walk away
D
Never walk away
First part of verse 1
My old friends lie beside the road
Life is a complete part of them
(Chorus)
End on the Em Em6 etc. and Em.
Kick the wood
(Intro)
E G# A F#
E G# F#
(Verse 1)
E G# A F#
Pretty colors, Pretty colors,
E G# F#
On the hillside, the hillside picnic goers
E G# A F#
Kick the wood, kick the wood across the field
E G# F#
And a baseball bat makes a toy
Chorus
A E B F#
There at your wedding, there in your place,
A E G#
Mind you start crying, and away you’ll stay
A E B F#
Respect your own heart, don’t let if fall apart
A
Where are the voices that cheer your day?
(Verse 2)
E G# A F#
Matchsticks burn, matchsticks turn
E G# F#
Black to red, a lovely sunset for dreamers
E G# A F#
Colors and patches, coats and patches that were saved
E G# F#
And a harvest made, so come early
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
C#m E A
Oh, my judgement, you wander and see
C#m E A
A lost and lonely way to be
B
You will be
(Verse 1)
(Chorus)
Chamberlain, SD
(Intro)
E7 (E6 – E)
Verse 1
E7 A E7
The lifeguards get off sleeping
E7 A E7
The waitress sings of free cold biscuits
E7 A E7
The light in the morning sets you crying
G A E7
Dragging Missouri river
G A E7
Dragging Missouri river
(Verse 2)
Who will be your lover’s stranger?
Who will make your heart afraid?
The boats only found a sunken tree stymp
Dragging Missouri river
Dragging Missouri river
(Chorus)
Bm A
Are we so cold and distant?
G A
No one swims out to save him in the river
Bm A
Everyone saw, no one remembered
E7
How’d we get so tired and helpless?
E7
How’d we get so tired and helpless?
(verse 3)
How long does love live on empty?
When we see only love again
Love of one another sinking
Draggin Missouri river
Draggin Missouri river
(Bridge)
E
Chamberlain wants you (2x)
Nothing has changed
Ther bidge the same
(Solo)
G A E
Black Eyes
Capo V
Intro
Am F (2x)
C F (2x)
Verse 1
Am
Who cares for charity
Am/G
When it comes from black eyes like these?
F C
Deep and dark, always searching
Am
Summer and the breakfast is plenty
Am/G
Table’s set, the supper’s ready
F C
Feast attended by the gypsy
Chorus
Dm Am Am/G F
Followed you today where the children, they run and play
Dm Am
Kneeling on the street, kneeling by the sea,
F G
First next day, you walked with me
C Bb
Our black eyes, our black eyes
Am G
Go out into the world
F Em
No doubt, you are strong
Dm
You came for me
G
I was unharmed
Verse 2
Thread is bare, the buttons worn,
This coat I wear is old and torn
Dirty and need of mending
Not asking for your company
I’ve been with your understudy
In the broken, beaten blocks of the city
Chorus
Doves & Stones
Capo I
Intro
C
Verses
C Am
C Am
Dm G(2x)
Chorus
F G C Fmaj7
C Fmaj7
C G
Am Am/B C (2X)
G C Fmaj7 G/E
Bridge
G C G G (2x)
Am D (X2)
Outro
Fmaj7 G/E
End on Fmaj7
My Gospel Song For You
Intro
G D
Verses
Dmaj7 G (2x)
G/F#
Em A (2x)
Chorus
Bm Bm G D
G D Em A
Bloody Hands
Verses
F#m A (2X)
F#m D G A
D A
Chorus
C G
F#m B
D A
Solo on Verses
Life’s Warm Sheets
Intro
D D/B
Verses
D D/B (3X)
C A
Chorus
Em A
G A D (2X)
Chorus
Em A (4X)
Bridge
Bm
F#m A (2X)
The trap’s been Set
Intro and empty spaces
C Fmaj7
Verses
C Fmaj7
Chorus
Am C F C





