I put this together from watching interviews and live performaces and it s served me well.
Chad actually does a picking pattern for the verse and strums the chorus but I haven t quite figured it out
yet. For now the strumming pattern has worked for me.
For the verses, each note is held for two measures except for the quick little change at the ends of each
verse (going from the C to the F back to the C)each note is for one measure.
[Verse 1]
I like crumbs and chrome headlights
Carnivals and canines, boardwalk girls who play nice
Cars and their engines, a bridge in its suspension
The sun shadowing the east
And I like how your dress looks with that lamp shade
How people always tell me, you re the best friend they ever made
Take me to the commune, we can live with Cat Stevens
He can play the tam-bour-ine
[Chorus](Strum each note once)
Oh, I d like to live up in a house that lives up in a tree
Only you and me, maybe a kid, maybe three
Maybe from the top, you can see that
(Return to regular strumming pattern)
I want you across my hips, fastened low and tight
In the middle of the woods, in the middle of the night
We can let the world fall away, one kiss at a time
[Verse 2]
I like my Mustangs unshod, the coy-wolves of Cape Cod
The tillerman and big maud gone but not forgotten
The wind catching the caution, so let it all be free
N.C.
Let s take another unplanned road trip, leave behind New England
Maybe we can find our Lefty s sister Ingrid
Leave the frozen rivers, to some place we ve never seen
[Chorus](Strum each note once)
Oh, I d like to live up in a house that lives up in a tree
Only you and me, maybe a kid, maybe three
Maybe from the top, you can see that
(Return to regular strumming pattern)
I want you across my hips, fastened low and tight
In the middle of the woods, in the middle of the night
We can let the world fall away, one kiss at a time
Thank you and happy playng!