B-Sides


Words and Music: Grant Lee Phillips

All songs here are down tuned (i.e Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Bb and Eb).

Orpheus


Intro:   A     C#m

A                                       C#m
I heard that your Orpheus he       done left town
A                                               C#m
He snuck out the back where you        slept face down
Bm                                  C#m
Bound for the underworld, rolled down where his wool sleeves
Bm                                  C#m
And, like a serpent coiled about the wet leaves
Bm                              C#m
Tennessee waltzing, a dance of disease
D
Can't you see?


Pick up your shears ????????????
Leave all your cares to fall like a dead earth
Outside, a carriage waits to take you home
Its tricky handbrake will not hold up long
To hop inside for your map it has been drawn
                      D
And can't you see?
                   A     G    F#m   E  
What leads you? 
What leads you? 
What leads you?
What leads...

Bm                                     C#m
Again, the mandrake I would         use for tea
Bm                                          C#m
I heard the water spirits, they're        calling me
Bm                                                C#m                                       
And faintly peacock cried behind the        ????
                D
Can't you see?

A                                             C#m     
And when you feel them take on         your brain (?)
A                                  C#m
Fill your skull's bowl full'o        butane
Bm                                     C#m 
Maybe the genie wants back        in the lamp
Bm                                       C#m                                     
He's run out of wishes and his        clothes are damp
Bm                                              C#m                                     D 
Back to the bottle though he knows       just how cramped it can be
What leads you? What leads you?
What leads you? What leads you?

Goodnight, John Dee

Intro:

  Dadd?     C          G
E[--0-------0----------3------]
B[--3-------1----------3------]
G[--0-------0----------0------]
D[--4-------2----------0------]
A[--5-------3-----7\---2------]
E[----------------8\---3------]


D           C                  G
A simple tale of rich to rags
D             C                   G
One that often comes to mind
D                     C                   G
The seer that looked into the mirror
D                   C                 G
And left his sleeping wife behind
                 A         C           G                 
I said: "Goodnight, Sir John Dee."

A light is a medicine to all of us
Now, which will feed the silver lamp?
I walked beside the wolf of the trinity
They say their tooth are made of sand
I said: "Goodnight, John Dee, goodnight."

Lantern swinging like a pendulum
The shape of your small shadow appears
To invoke the worst, I reached into my purse
And I took out the shew-stone, gently
And I say: "Goodnight, John Dee."
"Goodnight, John Dee."
"Goodnight John Dee."

Crashing at Corona

Intro: 

         Am                        Am
E[------------------------3-------------------3---]
B[------------1------1-----------1------1---------]
G[--------2-----2-----------2-------2-------------]
D[----2---------------------2---------------------]
A[----0---------------------0---------------------]
E[------------------------------------------------]

**Play this figure pretty much wherever there is an Am chord.**

    Fmaj7
Enraptured
                 C
Kicked off at last
G                     Am
Now that ???
Fmaj7                                   C
Just as re-entry was lost
G                                    Am
We came tumbling down
Fmaj7                                Am
Like a falling star
             Fmaj7
Burned in Mexico


Bm            G
There is no hope
      A                       F#
In crashing at Corona
G
Threatened ???
A
Put aground ???
Bm     G
????????
A                 F#
In crashing at Corona
            G
As the radar reflected
       Em           D
We were sent to Alburquerque


??? came to great plains
With their armour, cars, jeeps and junk
Took great pains with remains
'til the ??? were inside crates and trunks
?????????
?????????

Bm            G
There is no hope
      A                       F#
In crashing at Corona
G
Interrupted the water
A
And silver ???
Bm            G
There is no hope
      A                       F#
In crashing at Corona
             F
Send a weather balloon down
        Em           D
To the white sands, trinity


**In place of those last  F, Em and D chords you can play this:

E[----------------------------------0----]    
B[----------1---------------3---------3--]
G[------2---------------2-----2----------]
D[--3---------3----2---------------------]           
A[---------------------------------------]
E[---------------------------------------]

    and/or

E[-----------------------------------------------]    
B[-----------------------------------------------]
G[-----------------------------------------------]
D[---------------------------------0-----2----0--]           
A[-------0----3--------------0--------0----------]
E[---1-------------1----0------------------------]


Bb                                 Fmaj7
Rains came let the storm drain shame
    C         Dm
And with the 509 ???
Bb              Fmaj7
Rocket wrecks and ???
C                Dm
The days of space age ???
Bb             Dm           Bb
And verification of the Kodak test

There is no hope
In crashing at Corona
Interrupted the water
And silver ???
There is no hope
In crashing at Corona
Send a weather balloon down
To the white sands, trinity
We were sent to Alburquerque
We were sent to Alburquerque
We were sent to Alburquerque
White sand, trinity


**I'm not sure of all the proper names of the chords but these are the chord structures that I use:
Fmaj7: 0123xx
A: 00220x
F#: 244300