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Grace

(J. Buckley/G. Lucas) 


This is a simplified standard-tuning chord chart for "Grace", which (as
with "Mojo") is designed for the 
bash-along-I-don't-care-about-the-fiddly-difficult-bits and novice players
out there.  You can strum and sing along using this.  Most of these chords
have been posted already (by e.g. John Pollock), but note that the album
version of "Grace" is NOT (!!!) played in standard tuning, as the tab
stuff below will reveal.   

Anyway, these chords are as I have mapped them, and can be embellished
according to your inclination.  But they suffice as a starting point -- 
and they do not rely on messing with your tuning.  One or two are tricky
and I'll include some diagrams for beginners.

*Introduction:

Fm      Gm        Em
D       D   D     D

*Verse:

Em
There's the moon asking to stay
F                                 Em                         Eb
Long enough for the clouds to fly me away   
F                                Em          Eb                Em
Is my time coming, I'm not afraid, afraid to die
    Em      B7   G   A          Bm        A      Em
My fading voice sings of love
         Em   B7     G        A    Bm    A   Em
But she cries to the clicking of time, oh time

*Chorus

F                               Em                      Eb
Wait in the fire, wait in the fire,     x 2 (in the first instance)
Em
Fi-i-i-re

(Then repeat the intro, verse and chorus as before, which then takes us
into the instrumental bit)

Eb   F   G   F#   F   Em   Em
Em/G/A/Bm (quickly)              then
Em   B7   G  A  Bm   A     (x3)  finishing on Em

(Then back to the intro and first part of the verse, ending on F, Em, Eb,
F,
Em, Eb.......)


*Note:

>This song has a lot of chords in it, and some of them (Eb!) are not
especially user friendly, especially for the beginner.  Once you are
comfortable with meddling with your tuning, it turns out to be a breeze to
play in this song (see the tab below).  But for standard tuning, here's a
way (using "pictorial" representation) of playing the verse and chorus
chords which will be good enough to start with (by the way, Eb refers to
"E flat"). 


E       |----|----|----|----|               |----|----|----|
|----|----|----|
B       X----|----|----|----|               O----|----|----|
X----|----|----|
G       O----|----|----|----|               O----|----|----|
O----|----|----|
D       |----|----|--4-|----|                   |----|--3-|----|
|--3-|----|----|
A       |----|----|--3-|----|                   |----|--2-|----|
   |--2-|----|----|
E       |--1-|----|----|----|               O----|----|----|
X----|----|----|
frets 1   2   3    4              1    2    3               1   2    3
                F                                       Em
        Eb
        (actually F9 I think)     

In the chorus (and the final verse!), you will see that it actually works
if you bash some of the open strings, especially the open B string, while
you play these chords.  In the earlier verses hold back a little.

Guitarists can experiment with playing the D-chord section of the
introduction in the following way -- lay your index finger across the top
3 strings on the 2nd fret, and then use your 2nd or 3rd finger to fret the
D note on the B string.  There's your D chord.  Now, hammer that D note on
and off again as the intro goes through (so the notes are alternating
C#/D/C# C#/D/C# C#/D....).  This corresponds to the bit in the tab up
around the 14th fret.