Prefab Sprout - The Songs of Danny Galway

      

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 Tuning: Standard
 
 Prefab Sprout
 The Songs of Danny Galway (2013)
 (McAloon)
 
 Interesting chords and voicings, open chords and complex textures. Here's
 my reading of this beautiful song.

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 CHORDS/SPECIAL VOICINGS
 
 There are different ways of playing this chord I call â??Fsus2/Aâ??. I think I
 hear different voicings in verse and chorus (as pointed out below). But it
 is of course not necessary to play these variations, I just think it sounds
 nice. You may as well just take the first voicing and use it throughout the
 song. One can even use it to substitute the â??Fmaj7(add9)â?? in the chorus.
 They're all really close.
 
         E-A-D-G-B-E        
 Fsus2/A x-0-3-0-1-3 (INTRO)
 Fsus2/A x-0-3-5-6-3 (VERSE)
 Dm7 0-x-0-2-1-1
 Gsus4 3-x-0-0-1-3
 Cmaj7 x-3-2-0-0-0
 Fmaj7(add9) 1-x-2-2-1(3)
 G7sus4 3-x-0-0-1-1

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 Capo 4th fret
 
 INTRO
 | C Cmaj7| Fadd9/A | Dm7 | Gsus4 G |
 | C Cmaj7| Fadd9/A | Dm7 | Gsus4 G |
 
   C            Cmaj7  Fsus2/A 
 I met him in a Dublin bar
     Dm7                Gsus4 G 
 The sorcerer from Wichita
   C              Cmaj7 Fsus2/A 
 A wizard and his baby grand
   Dm7                       Gsus4 G 
 A range of powers at his command
    Am                        Fmaj7   
 He summoned ghosts of lovers sleeping
 Fmaj7                   Dm7 
 Soldiers dying far from home
        C            Cmaj7 
 Like a stone into a well
   Fmaj7(add9)             
 I fell beneath their spell
           C 
 Dm7 Gsus4 
 The songs of Danny Galway
        C            Cmaj7 
 Like a stone into a well
   Fmaj7(add9)             
 I fell beneath their spell
           C 
 Dm7 Gsus4 
 The songs of Danny Galway
 
 | C Cmaj7| Fadd9/A | Dm7 | Gsus4 G |
 | C Cmaj7| Fadd9/A | Dm7 | Gsus4 G |
 
    C                 Cmaj7 Fsus2/A 
 In words he paints a vivid scene
    Dm7                     Gsus4 G 
 Of places you may not have been
     C                 Cmaj7    Fsus2/A 
 Yet listen and you're moved to swear
   Dm7                                Gsus4 G 
 I know that house, I've climbed that stair
      Am                        Fmaj7   
 I've shared those overwhelming feelings
      Fmaj7                          Dm7 
 I've suffered loss, I've known such joy
  C              Cmaj7 
 Emotions we all know
     Fmaj7(add9)             
 Are burnished till they glow
           C 
 Dm7 Gsus4 
 In the songs of Danny Galway
 C              Cmaj7 
 Emotions we all know
     Fmaj7(add9)             
 Are burnished till they glow
           C 
 Dm7 Gsus4 
 In the songs of Danny Galway
 
 | C Cmaj7| Fadd9/A | Dm7 | Gsus4 G |
 | C Cmaj7| Fadd9/A | Dm7 | Gsus4 G |
 
 | G7sus4 | % | % | % |
 
     C          Cmaj7 Fsus2/A 
 His melodies inspire whims
     Dm7                        Gsus4 G 
 His chord changes like Baptist hymns
      C                Cmaj7    Fsus2/A 
 They lift your spirit till its soars
      Dm7                      Gsus4 G 
 Till you forget that spirit's yours
 Am                         Fmaj7 
 Sound and word in sweet communion
 Fmaj7              Dm7  
 Echoes of a better world
       C              Cmaj7 
 Where chivalry's not dead,
        Fmaj7(add9)       
 We'll look for it instead
           C 
 Dm7 Gsus4 
 In the songs of Danny Galway
       C              Cmaj7 
 Where chivalry's not dead,
        Fmaj7(add9)       
 We'll look for it instead
           C 
 Dm7 Gsus4 
 In the songs of Danny Galway
 
 C                  Cmaj7 
 Something well and pure
    Fmaj7(add9)     
 Forever will endure
           C 
 Dm7 Gsus4 
 In the songs of Danny Galway
 
 | C Cmaj7| Fadd9/A | Dm7 | Gsus4 G |
 | C Cmaj7| Fadd9/A | Dm7 | Gsus4 G |
 
 | G7sus4 | % | % | % |
 (repeat and fade)