LEAST COMPLICATED (Emily Saliers) --------------------------------- [Emily plays this in A with no capo; Amy plays it in G with a capo on the second fret. Note that I wrote down Amy's chords, even though in the intro, and in parts of the first verse and last verse, Amy doesn't even play (that's why those chords are in parentheses). So, if you want to play Emily's chords, transpose everything up a whole step. Emily's picking pattern for the intro and first and last verse is at the end.]
[Each chord is half a measure. I think Amy plays C/G as 3x2013.]
[You can play the melody in the mandolin parts by playing G7 (320001) instead of G; use your index finger and pinky to find the melody.]
(G) (C/G) (G) (G) (G) (C/G) (G) (G) [intro]
(G) (C/G) (G) (G) I sit two stories above the street (G) (C/G) (G) (G) It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep
There's life down below me though
The kids are walking home from school
So long ago when we were taught
That for whatever kind of puzzle you've got
You just stick the right formula in
A solution for every fool
I remember the time when I came so close to you
Sent me skipping my class and running from school C C D [tacet] And I bought you that ring cause I never was cool
What makes me think I could start clean slated C D [tacet] G C/G G G G C/G G G The hardest to learn was the least complicated [mandolin]
Oh I just sit up in the house and resist
And not be seen until I cease to exist
A kind of conscientious objection
A kind of dodging the draft
The boy and girl are holding hands on the street
And I don't want to but I think you just wait
It's more than just eye-to-eye
Learn the things I could never apply
D(sus4?) D(sus4?) And I remember the time when I came so close with you
I let everything go it seemed the only truth C C D [tacet] And I bought you that ring; it seemed the thing to do
What makes me think I could start clean slated C D [tacet] G G The hardest to learn was the least complicated
So what makes me think I could start clean slated
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
Ohhhhh, I'm just a mirror of a mirror of myself
All the things that I do
And the next time I fall, I'm gonna have to recall C C/B Am7 C/G D (D)-(Dsus4) (D) [tacet] It isn't love, it's only something new
(G) (C/G) (G) (G) I sit two stories above the street (G) (C/G) (G) (G) It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep
There's life down below me though
The kids are walking home from school
And I remember the time when I came so close with you
Sent me skipping my class and running from school C C D [tacet] And I bought you that ring cause I never was cool
What makes me think I could start clean slated
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
So what makes me think I could start clean slated C D [tacet] G C/G G G The hardest to learn was the least complicated [mandolin]
Least complicated G [tacet; single notes: F-F-F-E-D, D-E-F-F-F-E-D-C-D etc.] Least complicated (Na naa, na na na na naaaa...)
