Josh Ritter - New Lover

“new lover”
by josh ritter

tabbed by tom ( tkforeverer@yahoo . com )
props to abe who helped me out a bit E/C# x02100
A 002220
B7 021202

E – > E/C# – > A – > B7

strumming pattern is something like . . . D D dudu go nuts . last chord rolls into the
start of the next line a bit .

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intro
progression x 4 ( 4th time he skips the E/C# and plays the E twice into the A )
E E/C# A B7
E E/C# A B7
E E/C# A B7
E E A B7
– –
E E/C# A B7
can’t pretend that all is well it’s like i’m haunted by a ghost
E E/C# A B7
there are times i cannot speak your name but i catch it in my throat
E E/C# A B7
and if i don’t sing this song it’s out of fear of sour notes ( not sure
if that’s ’of’ or ’or’ )

progression x 1 ( E E/C# A B7 )

E E/C# A B7
oh i feel like a miser oh i feel low and mean
E E/C# A B7
for accusing you of stealing what i offered you for free
E E/C# A B7
oh it beggars the belief sometimes what thieves we lovers be

progression x 1 ( E E/C# A B7 )

E E/C# A B7
oh i don’t know who you’re with these days might be with someone new
E E/C# A B7
and if you are i hope he treats you like a lover ought to do
E E/C# A B7
but whoever makes you happy it don’t really matter who
E E/C# A B7
i’ve got a new lover now i hope you’ve got a lover too

progression x 4 ( E E/C# A B7 )

E E/C# A B7
praise the water under bridges praise the time we say we’ll heal
E E/C# A B7
praise the fonder that still grows on the absent heart and fields
E E/C# A B7
praise be to this pain these days it’s all i seem to feel ( not
sure on lyric? all the same i fear? all the same i feel? )

progression x 1 ( E E/C# A B7 )

E E/C# A B7
perhaps the fault was mine perhaps i just ignored
E E/C# A B7
who you were always gonna be instead of who i took you for
E E/C# A B7
i’ve been treated worse it’s true still i expected more

progression x 1 ( E E/C# A B7 )

E E/C# A B7
but i will not chase your shadow as you go from room to room
E E/C# A B7
dropping handkerchiefs and daggers smoking guns and other clues
E E/C# A B7
for what someone did with someone and who did what to who
E E/C# A B7
i’ve got a new lover now i hope you’ve got a lover too .

progression x 4
E E/C# A B7
i got a new lover now she knows just what i need
E E/C# A B7
when i wake up in the night she can read me back my dreams
E E/C# A B7
and she loves them cause she never needs to tell me what they mean

progression x 1 ( E E/C# A B7 )

E E/C# A B7
i got a new lover now i know that she’s not mine
E E/C# A B7
and i only want to hold her i don’t need to read her mind
E E/C# A B7
and she only looks like you when she’s in a certain light

progression x 1 ( E E/C# A B7 )

E E/C# A B7
i hope you’ve got a lover now hope you’ve got somebody who
E E/C# A B7
can give you what you need like i couldn’t seem to do
E E/C# A B7
but if you’re sad and you are lonesome and you’ve got nobody true
E E/C# A B7
i’d be lying if i said that didn’t make me happy too .

progression x 1 ( E E/C# A B7 )

E E/C# A B7
i’d be lying if i said that didn’t make me happy too .

progression x 4

ring out E