Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine

      
 
 This is from the Indigo Girls 1200 Curfews music book.
 All chords are the way that Emily and Amy do it.
 This is a good song to play solo because the two guitar parts are identical.
 Don’t worry, it’s a LOT easier than it looks.
 
 See end for fingerings...
 
 Capo 2
 Standard Tuning EADGBE
 
 Intro/Rhy. Fig. 1:
 (G) (A7sus4) 
   

 E--------3---3---3---3---------3---3---3---3---------------
 B--------3---3---3---3---------3---3---3---3---------------
 G--------0---0---0---0---------0---0---0---0---------------
 D--------0---0---0---0------2--2---2---2---2---------------
 A-----2---------------------0------------------------------
 E-----3----------------------------------------------------
 

 End Rhy. Fig. 1
 (Cadd9) (Dsus4) (D) (Dsus2) (D) 
      

 E--------3---3---3---3------3--------2------0------2-------
 B--------3---3---3---3------3--------3------3------3-------
 G--------0---0---0---0------2--------2------2------2-------
 D-----2--2---2---2---2------0--------0------0------0-------
 A-----3----------------------------------------------------
 E----------------------------------------------------------
 

 
 Verse with Rhy. Fig. 1 (above):
 
 G                       A7sus4           Cadd9 Dsus4 D Dsus2 
 I’m tryin to tell you something about my life
 
 D     G                 A7sus4             Cadd9 Dsus4 D Dsus2 
 Maybe give me insight between black and white
 
 D       D11                             C 
 And the best thing you’ve ever done for me
 
            D11                         C 
 Is to help me take my life less seriously

 (------------------Rhy. Fig. 1----------------)
 

                     G        A7sus4 Cadd9 Dsus4 D Dsus2 D 
 Cause its only life after all
 
 Verse with Rhy. Fig. 1:
 
      G               A7sus4        Cadd9    Dsus4 D Dsus2 
 Well darkness has a hunger that’s insatiable
 D   G               A7sus4               Cadd9 Dsus4 D 
 And lightness has a call that’s hard to hear
 Dsus2 D  D11                                 C  
  And I’ll wrap my fear around me like a blanket
   D11                             C      
 I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it
                             G C G 
 And I’m crawling on your shore
 
 Chorus:
 
 D                       Cadd9           G    
 I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
   D                            Cadd9              G    
 I looked to the children and I drank from the fountains
       D11                           C          
 There’s more than one answer to these questions
                  G           C G 
 Pointing me in a crooked line
 
 D11 C N.C.
 The less I seek my source for some definitive
 
 ( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/i/indigo_girls/closer_to_fine_tab.html )

 (--------------Rhy Fig. 1----------
 

 G A7sus4 Cadd9 
    

 The closer I am to fine------
 ----------------)(----------------Rhy Fig. 1------------------)
 

 Dsus4 D Dsus2 D G A7sus4 Cadd9 Dsus4 D Dsus2 D 
            

 The Closer I am to fine------ yeah 
 

 
 
 Verse with Rhy. Fig 1:
 
   G                  A7sus4      Cadd9 Dsus4 D Dsus2 D 
 I went to see the doctor of philosophy
        G             A7sus4     Cadd9             Dsus4 D Dsus2 
 With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
 D      D11                C                  
 And he never did marry or see a b-grade movie
        D11                          C                           
 But he graded my performance and he said he could see through me
         G                    D           Cadd9 
 I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind
          D                   G C G 
 I got my paper and I was free
 
 (Chorus)
 
 Verse with Rhy. Fig 1:
 
      G               A7sus4         Cadd9 Dsus4 D Dsus2 
 So I stopped by the bar at three a.m.
    D    G             A7sus4    Cadd9      Dsus4 D Dsus2 
 To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend
 D     D11                             C                   
 And I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
       D11                           C             
 I was twice as cloudy as I’d been the night before
                          G    C G 
 When I went in seeking clarity
 
 Outro/Chorus:
 
 (chorus)
         D                   Cadd9         G    
 Here we go to the doctor we go to the mountains
    D                           Cadd9              G    
 We look to the children and we drink from the fountains
         D                  Cadd9                 
 Here we go to the bible we go through the workout
 D G N.C. G
 We read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout
       D11                           C          
 There’s more than one answer to these questions
                          G   C G 
 Pointing me in a crooked line
 D11 C N.C
 The less I seek my source for some definitive

 (---------------Rhy Fig 1--
 

              G         A7sus4 Cadd9 
 The closer I am to fine

 --------------)(-------------Rhy Fig 1--
 

 Dsus4 D Dsus2 D G A7sus4 Cadd9 
        

 Clos--er I am to fine---------
 --------------)(-------------Rhy Fig 1--------------------)
 Dsus4 D Dsus2 D G A7sus4 Cadd9 Dsus4 D Dsus2 D G-------
 Clos--er I am to fine---------
 

 
 
 D11=x54030 (this sounds kind of weird, I use xx0010-sounds much better)
 C=x32010
 G=320003
 D=xx0232
 Cadd9=x23033 (or x23003)
 Dsus4=xx0233
 Dsus2=xx0230
 
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