Iron & Wine - Caught in the Briars

      Here's the most accurate chording for Caught in the Briars for both the Off The Record 
and WERS 88.9 sessions. They include the additional song "Sundown," denoted below. I also 
included the cool little riff he plays in Tab form.

There's another version of this song that I much prefer, which is in DADGAD, but this is an 
easier, mellower version that doesn't require retuning or excessive hand movements.

(Note: Minor chords are to be bar chords in the A-minor shape along the 1,2,3,4, and 5th strings at the 3rd, 2nd, and open frets, you can see how these are played in the variations options when highlighting chords.)

ENJOY!


[Verse 1]
                    C
The back alley's full of rain
                    G
And everything's shining
                   C
As holy as she can be
                      G
The trick’s in the timing

[Verse 2]
                   C
Free as a morning bird
               G
Fragile as china
                             C
She’s stuck in the weakest heart
               G
Of South Carolina

[Chorus]
                        Cm
Where all of the naked boys
                 Bm
Lay down beside her
                       Am
Sing her the saddest song
                     G
All caught in the briars

C (C's are flourished by playing open and one on the B String)
G (G's are flourished by hammering open and two on the A and D strings)
C 
G 

[Verse 3]
                  Cm
I never meant to fall
                   Bm
So hard in the doorway
                      Am
And all the sinners here
                     D
Have crosses for Sunday

[Verse 4]
                       Cm
Kissed at the county fair
                Bm
Frisked in the city
                              Am
Which proves as an answered prayer
                G
But ain’t it a pity

[Chorus]
                        C
Where all of the naked boys
                  G
Lay down beside her
                        C
Sing her the saddest song
                     G
All caught in the briars

C
G (flourish then move into strumming)


[Sundown]
                           C
There go the cops with the tomcat teeth
                                     G
Here come the church mice trying too hard
                     C
She had a way to be kind with words
                                 G
I had a knife in the back of my car

                       C
Nobody knows when the rain may come
                             G
Nobody wants wake up and be cruel
                            C
She locked the door and the sun went down
                                   G
In South Carolina with nothing to lose

                  Cm           Bm
All of her naked boys
                  Am           G
And not even I was true



[BONUS}

Riff he was playing at the beginning of the videos

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