Coming Up Roses Tune 1/2 step down F#: 244322 D: XX0232 A: X02220 B: 224442 E: 022100 Db: XX4121 Ebm: 111342 E*: 476454 Inrto: F# A E Ebm D A B D A B D Vs.1 A B I'm a junkyard full of false starts D A And I don't need your permission B D A B To bury my love under this bare light bulb Br.1 D A B D The moon is a sickle cell A B Db It'll kill you in time D A B D Your cold white brother riding your blood Db Like spun glass in sore eyes Chorus F# A E Ebm D While the moon does its division you're buried below A B D A B And you're coming up roses everywhere you go D E* Red roses follow SOLO (over verse chords) Br.2 The things that you tell yourself They'll kill you in time Your cold white brother alive in your blood Spinning in the night sky CHORUS (don't sing "follow" in the last line) Chorus2 So you got in a kind of trouble that nobody knows It's coming up roses everywhere you go Red roses End on Chorus chords Solo: |----------------| |------------------|---------------| |-7p5------------| |-7-5-7-5----------|---------------| |-----4b---------|Play 2x's |----------6---6p4-|-4-------------| |--------7----4--| |------------------|----7--4--6--7-| |----------------| |------------------|---------------| |----------------| |------------------|---------------| |--------------|-----------------------| |--------------|-----------------------| |--------6-----|--9-8----9p8-6---4---7-| |-7-6-7--------|-----------------------| |--------------|-----------------------| |--------------|-----------------------| Intro: There's a little riff over the F# chord in the intro |------------| |------------| |------------| Play twice |-4--3--1----| |----------4-| |------------| -jv Elliott Smith - Coming Up Roses Tabbed by Tony G (yeah@hehe.com) * Tune one whole step down * Some of these chords are easier to do one way (given the progression) than the other at certain points in the song so I included more than one way of doing them, but you can use them interchangably. EBGDAE EBGDAE Bb 113331 or 688766 G 320003 or 355433 C x32010 or 335553 C/G 032003 D# 668886 E B G D A E F 133211 or 8 8 10 10 10 8 Inrto: E ----------------- B -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0- G -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0- D -5-4-2-0-5-4-2-0- A ----------------- E ----------------- Bb C C/G D# Bb C D# Bb C D# F Verse 1 ------ Bb C I'm a junkyard full of false starts D# Bb And I don't need your permission C D# Bb C To bury my love under this bare light bulb Bridge 1 -------- D# G C D# The moon is a sickle cell Bb C D It'll kill you in time D# G C D# Your cold white brother riding your blood D Like spun glass in sore eyes Chorus 1 -------- G Bb C C/G D# While the moon does its division you're buried below Bb C D# Bb C And you're coming up roses everywhere you go D# F Red roses follow SOLO ---- * Play verse chords * You'll have to listen to the song to get the rythm E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- B -8-6---------8-6----------8-6-8-6-------------------------------6-5-6-5----- G -----7-5---------7-5------8-8-8-7-7-7-5---5---------------7-7-5---------7-5- D ---------8-5---------8-5----------------8---8-5-7-8-8-7-8------------------- A ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bridge 2 -------- The things that you tell yourself They'll kill you in time Your cold white brother alive in your blood Spinning in the night sky Chorus 2 -------- So you got in a kind of trouble that nobody knows It's coming up roses everywhere you go Red roses * End on Chorus chords