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O New England

Decemberists
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
We'd  come seven hours down
Took  the blue line to see where we  hopped out
And  I was only joking, and  I was only joking
And  I was only trying to  get a laugh
You  say this was the furthest that we had come
Travel  so far to watch it fall, undone
And  I had lost my token
You  were looking bent and broken
Staring  sideways with the  rain coming down
But  I am so enthralled
O  New England
 La da dum da
O  New England
 La da dum dum
 This here is the fable of a failed attempt
 (Fable, failed attempt now)
 Find new life in a love in the seat of its origin
 (Failed attempt, now)
 From Long to Coney Island
 From mid to west to upper Highland
 And all I got is a silk full colored souvenier
 The new millennium in New York
 And all of New England
 La da dum dum
 O New England
 O New England
 In the face of your empire
 I think I'd rather just wait in the car
 And return to the turnpike
 Watching the New England skyline sinking below
 Sinking below
 We'd come seven hours down
 (We'd come seven hours down)
 We'd come seven hours down
 (We'd come seven hours down)

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Readable chord sheet for O New England by Decemberists

[A]We'd come seven hours down      [D]
[A]Took the blue line to see where [D]we hopped out
[A]And I was only joking, a[D]nd I was only joking
[A]And I was only trying to[D] get a laugh
[A]You say this was the furthest that we had come  [D]
[A]Travel so far to watch it fall, [D]undone
[A]And I had lost my token
[D]You were looking bent and broken
[A]Staring sideways with th[D]e rain coming down

[F#m]But I am so enthralled  [E]
[A]O New England
La da dum da       [D]
[A]O New England
La da dum dum       [D]

This here is the fable of a failed attempt
(Fable, failed attempt now)
Find new life in a love in the seat of its origin
(Failed attempt, now)

From Long to Coney Island
From mid to west to upper Highland
And all I got is a silk full colored souvenier

The new millennium in New York
And all of New England
La da dum dum
O New England
O New England
In the face of your empire
I think I'd rather just wait in the car
And return to the turnpike
Watching the New England skyline sinking below
Sinking below

We'd come seven hours down
(We'd come seven hours down)
We'd come seven hours down
(We'd come seven hours down)

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