The Music Box

Ed Harcourt

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D-DU-UDU

The music box is all that's left in the empty house

Must've left it when they moved out

In a hurry to flee the town

Armoured tanks broke through all of the soldier's ranks

You can be sure they weren't shooting blanks

From bodies laid out on the ground

There's a song your father had sung

When you were just knee high

Now a soldier plays the same tune

From the toy you left behind

°/

Something to remind you

°/

Something to remind you

Burnt to black there's a face you don't recognize

Just a doll with hollow eyes

And a feeling you can't describe

In factories, toys are made by the companies

Who create our killing machines

So the planet can rest at ease

There's a story you had to hear

When you couldn't sleep at all

Now the pages are burning

In some sad unholy war

Something to remind you

The ones you left behind you

Something to remind you

The ones you left behind you

The music box plays a song that I used to love

But now I can't remember what it was

For my memory has faded

*Note the ascending bass line at the end of the second chorus the leads into a

The last quiet verse uses the same chords as the first verse but fades out on a couple alternate

chords that I can't seem to make out. Any suggestions?

Also check out my chords for Ed's song, "Until Tomorrow Then"

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Readable chord sheet for The Music Box by Ed Harcourt

[Eb]            [D]&deg;                       [Eb]
The music box is all that's left in the empty house
[D]&deg;                   [Cm]
Must've left it when they moved out
[B]In a hurry to [Eb]flee the town    [Ab]                 [Fm]                    [C]
[Eb]            [D]&deg;                        [Eb]
Armoured tanks broke through all of the soldier's ranks
[D]&deg;                          [Cm]
You can be sure they weren't shooting blanks
[B]From bodies laid out[Eb] on the ground    [Ab]                 [Fm]                    [C]

[Fm]There's a song your [Cm]father had sung
[Fm]When you were just knee[Cm] high
[Fm]Now a soldier [Bb]plays the same tune
         [Eb]      [D]&deg;     [Cm]
From the toy you left behind
[D]&deg;/[Bb]        [Eb]
Something to remind you
[D]&deg;/[Bb]        [Eb]
Something to remind you

Burnt to black there's a face you don't recognize
Just a doll with hollow eyes
And a feeling you can't describe
In factories, toys are made by the companies
Who create our killing machines
So the planet can rest at ease

There's a story you had to hear
When you couldn't sleep at all
Now the pages are burning
In some sad unholy war

Something to remind you
Something to remind you
S[Bb]omething to rem[C]ind you
T[D]he ones you left be[Eb]hind you

Something to remind you
Something to remind you
Something to remind you
The ones you left behind you

The music box plays a song that I used to love
But now I can't remember what it was
For my memory has faded

*Note the ascending bass line at the end of the second chorus the leads into a
 The last quiet verse uses the same chords as the first verse but fades out on a couple alternate
chords that I can't seem to make out.  Any suggestions?

Also check out my chords for Ed's song, "Until Tomorrow Then"

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