Official National Ransom Chords Thread

[when i was cruel]

Pretty self explanatory, preferably if someone could work out Jimmie and Josephine then that would be awesome, I'll get you started on Josephine,

Capo on 4
run on A 2 pull off 2 pull off etc

[Jeremy Dylan]

Can we just make this the Official EC Chords thread? We've got three EC chords thread (one a dedicated Ransom/sack) in the first two pages of this forum.

[Jeremy Dylan]

THAT'S NOT THE PART OF HIM YOU'RE LEAVING

D
I have a friend
She's just a friend
...............G
I tried to comfort and defend
................................................D
I gave her what you might call advice
...................................................E.........A
But nothing like that comes without a price
...................D
The rumour was a cruel surprise
....................G
And she dissolved before my eyes
.................................................G/f#.....Em
I offered my hand and hers and mine entwined
........................................................................A...................D
I thought about back then when I wished that she had been mine

............................G......G/f#.....Em
There's no use in shedding any tears
..........................D........................
He's no good to you the way he is
G........G/f#......Em...............A7
He's beyond forgiving and believing
.................D
Half of his heart is torn like paper
.........................G.........G/f#......Em
It's sweet as the syrup from the maple
............................A..........................D
But that's not the part of him you're leaving

[Jeremy Dylan]

A CONDEMNED MAN

Am
Judge said, "Son, you better say your prayers
-------------------------------F------E
Got a noose that fits you and some gallow stairs
----Am---Am/g--------------------E
And by this time tomorrow you won't be alive
Am---------Am/g----F
Soon we'll be giving you 10,000 volts"
E---------------------------Am
And I said, "Make that twenty-five"

The firing squad have got me right in their sights
Got me strapped up tightly with some dynamite
And I hear the executioner has got a brand new kink
He's giving me cyanide to breathe and strychnine to drink

----F-----C/b--Am
So dress me in chains and bind me in shackles
----F--------C/b--Am
The last thing you'll hear is my cold-hearted cackle
----F------C/b---Am----D-------G
The last thing you'll see is my twisted leer
------C---C7----F---------E-------------Am
I'm a condemned man and I'll never get out of here

----G----------D-------------F---------C
The searchlight's sweeping up from the prison tower
----G--------D------------F---------C
The clock is creeping up to the midnight hour
----G--------D-------F-------F------F---------C
Outside they're wailing, "Repent, repent, repent, and believe"
-------C7--------F----------------------E
There's a telephone ringing but no chance of reprieve

Am
All you straight-shooters and God-fearing dolts
------Am----Am/g----F-------E
Can be scared rigid by electrical volts
---F--C/b---Am--------D-----G
But I can't be killed by any regular means
---C------C7----F-------E---------------------Am
Or I'll come back to haunt you and visit your dreams

[Jeremy Dylan]

NATIONAL RANSOM

A................................G.............D
Running pell-mell and harum-scarum
Running as hot as they do or dare
Stick out your tongue
And drink down all the venom
From Cut-Throat Cuthbert
And Millicent St. Cyr

D
From the real old Macau
...........G
To the new False Americas
..........D
In the liberated territories
....C......................G.........C........G........C......G........C...................D
Unusual suspects shake down, shake down, shake down various dubious characters

A...............................................G..............D
Mother’s in the kitchen picking bones for breakfast
Boiling them down by the bushel and the score
Pull out your thumb and count what’s left of your fist
There’s a wolf at the window with ravening maw

D
Did you find how to lie?
G
Did you find out just how to cheat?
D
The elite bleat, their obsolete
C
But are your prospects?
G...C......G.....C...G..C
Exact, perfect object
...............D
Now, if you’d only genuflect

D......................C
They’re running wild
........C/B.........Am
Just like some childish tantrum
Dm............................................G
Meanwhile we’re working every day
Paying off the National Ransom

Back to AGD

and repeat for the rest of the song.

[Jeremy Dylan]

All I can work out on Josephine so far is:

CAPO 4

C
The snitch, the snoop the tattle tale
.........F................?...........C
Led a thread bare on the stair
C
Adieu my little ballyhoo

[Jeremy Dylan]

POOR BORROWED DRESS

NB: I trust someone will correct these lyrics for me.

A..................................................................................E
A friends who painted heart and landed her as dress a well
E..........................................................................A
At last a proud and perfect sons at least start to swell
A.....................................................................D
Swaying in the swans turns to poker dots and pearls
E........................................................................A
Hearts as hard as punishment knives as dim as candles

D....................A.....................D....................A
It's a question of the voice of which you will attempt
D...................................A....................E
The one that's made to flatter you the other to defend
.......A...............................................................D
You took her down immediately and made her confess
E...................................................................A
Shame of the wearing of that poor borrowed dress

[when i was cruel]

All I can work out on Josephine so far is:

CAPO 4

C
The snitch, the snoop the tattle tale
.........F................?...........C
Led a thread bare on the stair
C
Adieu my little ballyhoo

Actually just figured out the intro it is a Cadd9 032033 and start on the 3 then hit the 2 and switch til you feel like it then it's some F's and G's and a run on a D yeah still figuring it out, I think we need a Jimmie chord in here, but yes Jeremy this is a final thread lol

[jardine]

from the other thread: i've over simplified here, but this works a bit, kinda, sorta...

JIMMIE STANDING IN THE RAIN
Dm
Third-Class ticket in his pocket
Edim....................................A
Punching out the shadows underneath the sockets
Dm........................ Edim................Dm
Tweed coat turned up against the fog

Dm
Slow coaches rolling o’er the moor
C#dim
Between the very memory
......................A
And approaches of war

Dm.........................Gm
Stale bread curling on a luncheon counter
Dm.............................Gm
Loose change lonely, not the right amount
Dm............................Gm
Forgotten Man of an indifferent nation
Dm ...................................Gm
Waiting on a platform at a Lancashire station
Dm .............................. C#dim
Somebody’s calling you again
.................Gm
The sky is falling
................ Dm................Gm Dm
Jimmie’s standing in the rain


if anyone elses hands are as concrete as mine, here's the trick w. c#dim.
basically, play a D chord, then move it down one string and put your little finger on G (third fret) on the high E string.

[thepopeofpop]

FIVE SMALL WORDS

(incorporating some suggestions by Jeremy Dylan)

intro:

chords: E..........D.........A........E..........D (repeat)
riff:.....B.....E....D....F#...E...D..B.....E....D


E..............D.....................A......E........D......A....D
Maybe you'll recognize in time
E.......................D.............A......E........D......A....D
Maybe one day you will discover
E...................D...............A......E........D......A....D
All the pain that lies behind
E..............D...............A......E........D......A....D
You and your unfortunate love
G.............C.........G
Somebody might be more
...................B7sus4
Unsuitable and strange
...... E..........C#m...F#m7
With eyes that offer everything
B7sus4.......A/C#........D
....And are capable of danger

E......................D.....................A......E........D......A....D
My mind turns over lies you told
E.....................D.....................A......E........D......A....D
Things said to your other lover
E....................D.....................A......E........D......A....D
Sweet as they had been to me
E.............................D.....................A......E........D......A....D
You lay there telling them to each other

G.............C............G
Now I stand outside the door
..........................B7sus4
My head is filled with phrases
E.............C#m...F#m7
Inside someone's calling out
B7sus4....A/C#.............D
....Their voices rise with praises

E............D
Five Small Words
.............E..........D
"Don’t you want me anymore?"
E............D
Five Small Words
......E..................D
"Well who is keeping score?"
B7....................................A
Coward that you are, you would faithlessly implore
B7
"Baby please don't leave me"
A
"Why don't you believe me?"

"Why did you deceive me?"

[Jeremy Dylan]

I just checked that and all seem to be correct, except for a few omissions, which I've filled in here:

E...........................D..........A......E........D......A....D
Maybe you'll recognize in time
E.............................D.........A......E........D......A....D
Maybe one day you will discover
E.......................D........A......E........D......A....D
All the pain that lies behind
E.........................D.....A........E.......D..A..D
You and your unfortunate love
G...............C............G
Somebody might be more
........................B7sus4
Unsuitable and strange
...... E.............C#m...F#m7
With eyes that offer everything
..........C#m........D
And are capable of danger

[thepopeofpop]

Thanks Jeremy. Your additions are good. However, I notice another chord after the

E -------------- C#m-- F#m7
With eyes that offer everything

line. I'll correct the post above.

[thepopeofpop]

The Spell That You Cast

Ab7/Db.....Bb7....Fmaj7sus/Bb

......Bb
The spell that you cast
................Bb7.........Bb
Seems to be wearing off fast

(The spell that you cast)
...........................Bb7.........Bb........F
Come back baby, cos I don't think that I can last

(The spell that you cast)

.......Bb/D.....Cm7
And I wonder whether
.....Bb/D......................Cm7
You got some other kind of lover
......Eb/G........F
That you like to please
Eb/G.........F
Better than me

.. Ab7/Db
I don't think I can take it
Bb7
How am I going break it?
Fmaj7sus/Bb
.......The Spell That You Cast
Fmaj7sus/Bb
.......The Spell That You Cast

F.............................. Eb ...............
Jimmy come quickly ‘cos I feel quite sickly
Bb/D....Cm7
(Oh the spell that You cast)
F........................................ Eb
You're like a gangster's Molly with a cannonade volley
Bb/D....Cm7
(Oh the spell that You cast)
Bb/D....Cm7
(Oh the spell that You cast)

Notes:

You can do a sort of Chuck Berry style vamp on the Bb chord in the verses.

That chord: Fmaj7sus4/Bb (or, if you like, Bbsus2add#11)

..||---------|---------|---------|-------
..||----0--- |---------|---------|-------
..||---------|---------|---0-----|-------
..||---------|---------|---0-----|-------
..||----0----|---------|---------|-------
X ||---------|---------|---------|-------

The Bb on the A string is optional, if you find it too hard.

[Jeremy Dylan]

Awesome! Thanks for TSTYC sir!

In return, here:

I LOST YOU
(Lauderdale/McManus)

Intro: A...G...A

..A
I Lost You
..D
I Lost You
......E...........................A
You slipped from your costume
.................................D
Like an actress in this tragedy
..........A.................E..............F#....................D
You're just an apparition in a haunting mystery
..A............E............................F#....D
I fear that you've passed over me...
..................A...................G.
And there's nothing I can do because
..A............A/g....A/f#
I Lost You

E........................................A...............................A/g....A/f#
Just like a rich man who is careless of his change
E
I took you for granted
.......A
And then you went to strangers
......................................................D
From deep within my heart I feel a distant fading pulse
...G...................F#....................E
A poor woman looking for the last coin in her purse

[Jeremy Dylan]

A little big of Josephine I've figured out. (capo on 4)

F...F#.........G............C
I'd trade all that I've seen
F...F#.........G............C
Put away all my codine
F...F#.........G............C
Yeah I trade all that I've seen
.........F......................G............C
For a slow drag with Josephine

[thepopeofpop]

Thanks for "I Lost You", sir!

CHURCH UNDERGROUND

Dm
She stood spotlit in a plain print dress
Came howling out of the wilderness
Gm................F..........................C
....There beat a cunning and murderous heart
Beneath that calm exterior
Dm
"You know my name
You don't know my mind
Don't doubt my eyes
They betray the past
Gm............F
....And I've already forgotten
C
....Much more than you will ever know"
Dm..................................F/C
....And every word that I have spoken is true
G/B
.....Except for those that were broken in two
C/Bb......................................F/A
.....I'm trying to make peace after a long night of pretend
C/Bb...............................F/A
.....I need a pawnbroker or a moneylender
G
Why do you do me down, Mister?
..............F.......C
Sing "Hallelujah," Sister
C/Bb ...........................F/A
Turn up the volume, just to turn it down
Dm.........Dm/C...........G/B
The trivial secrets buried with the profound
....C.................................F............C/E...Dm
It's enough to put a Church Underground
....C.................................F............C/E...Dm
It's enough to put a Church Underground
Dm
.....Deflowered young and then ever since
She's tried to wash off his fingerprints
Gm.......F.................C
So every charlatan and prince
Was made to feel inferior
Dm
She worked for tips in a 10-cent dance
Said moving pictures might pay perchance
Gm......F.........................C
10,000 one-way tickets to the sparkling coast
From the blank interior
Dm..................F/A
Everybody's either talking in code
G/B
Or getting ready to explode
C/Bb..........................F/A
Then she was singing in a five-piece band
C/Bb...........................F/A
But seems that no-one really wants this sound

G
Why do you do me down, Mister?
..............F.......C
Sing "Hallelujah," Sister
C/Bb ...........................F/A
Turn up the volume, just to turn it down
Dm.........Dm/C...........G/B
The trivial secrets buried with the profound
....C.................................F............C/E...Dm
It's enough to put a Church Underground
....C.................................F
It's enough to put a Church Underground

Bb..................F.........................C/E
.....The shaft of fanlight streaked with rain
.......................A...............................Eb
Poured through the glass, punched through the pain
...........D........................Gm...........................C
The holy picture hidden in the midden of that poisoned stitch
.............Gm........Gm/Bb.....Am
Her lonely voice was just a ruin in these riches
Dm
She must have been dreaming this all along
Could she be redeeming herself in song?
Bb..................F....................Em
.....“I'm no-one's martyred, plaster saint
............A7
Below the grease, beneath the paint”
.....Dm
I'm rolling like barrel
F/C
Swinging like a gallows
.....G/B
I'm rising up fast like all hell and all hallows
G
Why do you do me down, Mister?
..............F.......C
Sing "Hallelujah," Sister
C/Bb ...........................F/A
.... I'll be damned or purgatory bound
Dm.........Dm/C..............G/B
....Before those jokers ever understand
....C.................................F............C/E...Dm
It's enough to put a Church Underground
....C.................................F............C/E...Dm
It's enough to put a Church Underground
....C.................................F............C/E...Dm
It's enough to put a Church Underground

Dm Dm7 (x3)

(organ part that follows: A Dsus2 Dsus4 D Asus4 D)

[when i was cruel]

Hey guys I've got a perfected version of that's not the part of him, I even have the intro tabbed out, is there anyway I can like scan it on my computer and post on here ?

[Jeremy Dylan]

DR. WATSON, I PRESUME

Em
I sat in a motel room with the doctor
Am.................Em
Just before we were supposed to sing
Am.............................Em
He said regarding this guardian wing
Am...............................Em
This black and clipped misshapen thing
Am.......................G...........D
Hobbling on from claw to ring
Am................D
Hung upside down and cawing
G...............Em
Pecking at carrion of the fallen
Am
Battalion
D
Thawing
......C
On frozen mooring

Blackbird in a crust no more
They fell down 4 and 20
Bloodstained the land of want and plenty
Now raven standing at his shoulder
Stared with eyes of molten solder

G......D............C..........G
Dripping on a lacquer box
G......D.........C.........G
Introducing keys to locks
G.......D..........Am...C/b....C
Seven talents there where hidden
C......................D
Mysterious and some forbidden

Em..........D........C............G
Take the honey from the comb
Em..........D........C............G
Ravel thread around the loom
Em..........D........C............G
Dig the dirt up from the tomb
Am..C/b..C..........D.....G
Doctor ...Watson, I presume

One will follow
Two unknown sorrow
Three for laughter
Four ever after
Five-foot flood when the waters hit
Six feet deep, the eternal pit

Seven prayers and seven pleas
To eight imagined deities
Cat o' nine tails
Cat of nine lives
Brides turned into old wives tales
Your complexion colours then it pales
And into the sunset it sails

Soon these secrets will be scattered
Heaven knows what lies inside
It took a moment to discover
A lifetime to decide

Take the honey from the comb
Ravel thread around the loom
Dig the dirt up from the tomb
Dr. Watson, I presume

[when i was cruel]

Hey Jeremy not to bust on your ideas but it's a capo on the seven and starts on a Dm here watch this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss6mwv7bWfY it's a great video from our very own docinwestchester.

[Jeremy Dylan]

Hey Jeremy not to bust on your ideas but it's a capo on the seven and starts on a Dm here watch this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss6mwv7bWfY it's a great video from our very own docinwestchester.

Watched that video and it actually starts on the Am, then goes to the Dm. If you want to play it with the capo, just take my chords up from Em to Am:

Am
I sat in a motel room with the doctor
Dm.................Am
Just before we were supposed to sing
Dm.............................Am
He said regarding this guardian wing
Dm...............................Am
This black and clipped misshapen thing
Dm.......................C...........G
Hobbling on from claw to ring
Dm................G
Hung upside down and cawing
C...............Am
Pecking at carrion of the fallen
Dm
Battalion
G
Thawing
......F
On frozen mooring

Blackbird in a crust no more
They fell down 4 and 20
Bloodstained the land of want and plenty
Now raven standing at his shoulder
Stared with eyes of molten solder

C......G............F..........C
Dripping on a lacquer box
C......G............F..........C
Introducing keys to locks
C.......G.............Dm..........F
Seven talents there where hidden
F......................G
Mysterious and some forbidden

Am..........G........F............C
Take the honey from the comb
Am..........G........F............C
Ravel thread around the loom
Am..........G........F............C
Dig the dirt up from the tomb
Dm......F..........G.....C
Doctor Watson, I presume

One will follow
Two unknown sorrow
Three for laughter
Four ever after
Five-foot flood when the waters hit
Six feet deep, the eternal pit

Seven prayers and seven pleas
To eight imagined deities
Cat o' nine tails
Cat of nine lives
Brides turned into old wives tales
Your complexion colours then it pales
And into the sunset it sails

Soon these secrets will be scattered
Heaven knows what lies inside
It took a moment to discover
A lifetime to decide

Take the honey from the comb
Ravel thread around the loom
Dig the dirt up from the tomb
Dr. Watson, I presume

[thepopeofpop]

Hey guys I've got a perfected version of that's not the part of him, I even have the intro tabbed out, is there anyway I can like scan it on my computer and post on here ?

Do you have it written out on paper? Because sure you could scan it and post it as a .jpg file or something.

[Poor Deportee]

Anybody cracked 'A Voice in the Dark?' Now there's one I'd love to crash away at!

[when i was cruel]

Yes Paul I do have it written out, and Voice In The Dark doesn't really have any guitar it's essentially a shot at a early Buddy Holly song.

[Jeremy Dylan]

So, thus far we have:

1. National Ransom
2. Jimmie Standing In The Rain
3. Stations Of The Cross
4. A Slow Drag With Josephine
5. Five Small Words
6. Church Underground
7. You Hung The Moon
8. Bullets For The New-Born King
9. I Lost You
10. Dr. Watson, I Presume
11. One Bell Ringing
12. The Spell That You Cast
13. That's Not The Part Of Him You're Leaving
14. My Lovely Jezebel
15. All These Strangers
16. A Voice In The Dark
17. I Hope

And from NATIONAL RANSACK

1. Poor Borrowed Dress
2. A Condemned Man
3. Big Boys Cry
4. I Don't Want To Go Home

[when i was cruel]

Good call, I guess I havn't added anything yet but I have a shit load written out I am still trying to figure out One Bell and I have the essential part of Bullets at least up until the bridge, ALSO I had just started on All These Strangers It starts on D then A and alternates throwing in a Em occasionally, hey Jeremy do you know an easy way to tab /? like an already made preset ?