Monday, September 01, 2008

Tablature for Brandi Carlile "Follow"

I first heard this song in a torrent released by the SXSW festival in 2006. What a great voice she has, and this song has such a good melody that I kept meaning to work out the chords and the picky bit at the start. So, here it finally is :) Looking at the videos on YouTube I notice she uses a capo, so adjust accordingly if you want to. Her wiki page loads much faster than her official site.

Tablature
The opening part is just a series of nice arpeggios picked on the highest three strings. You start in the shape of a D chord on the 11th fret.

"Follow...."

bar 1 bar 2 bar 3 bar 4 bar 5 bar 6 bar 7
10 10 10 7 7 10 7
11 10 9 9 8 11 8
10 10 10 9 9 10 9

"Hold out...."

B D#m B7 E Em B Em
F# A#m F#7 B Bm F# Bm


Lyrics
Follow your heart and see where it might take you
Don't let the world outside there break you
They know not who you are inside
They have never felt your hell
Don't ever let them crack...

B D#m
Hold out I know you feel it getting cold out
B7
Without the blanket for your soul now
E
Before you know it you'll be frozen
Em B
You have to see this through
Em
There's no one here but you

CHORUS
F# A#m
I feel the rain coming down
F#7 B
It reminds me of who I used to be
Bm F#
But now that's nothing more
Bm
Then a memory

Don't go, to sleep and cry because tomorrow
If you let it it will swallow
You up and none of this will matter
Will matter anymore

CHORUS
I feel the rain coming down
It reminds me of who I used to be
But now that's nothing more
Than a memory

CHORUS
I feel the rain coming down
It reminds me of who I used to be
But now that's nothing more
Than a memory

Follow your heart and see where it might take you
Don't let the world outside there break you
They know not who you are inside
They have never felt your hell
Don't ever let them crack...
Your shell...

1 comment:

aurora said...

Thank you so much! It's such a beautiful song, and I've been trying figuring it out myself for a while - but I couldn't find the last chords.. Thanks again! :)