Ryan Adams - Ashes

title : ashes & fire
artist : ryan adams
album : ashes & fire

transcribed by : johan sigurdson ( johan . sigurdson@gmail . com )

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standard tuning , capo on 3rd , all chords relative to this .

fig 1 ( repeated ) :
E – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – |
B – – – 0 – 0 – 0h2p0 – – – |
G – – – 0 – 0 – 0 – – – – – 0 – |
D – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – |
A – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – |
E – – 3 – – – – 3 – – – – – – – |

intro :
G ( fig 1 )

1st verse :
C G ( fig 1 )
as he stood past the fire ,
C G ( fig 1 )
his hunger to leave well it gnawed his poor heart alive ,
Em C G
D
her skin smelled like black cherry , blossom perfume , the sail boats they all sailed
C G ( fig 1 )
and a river she cried .

2nd verse :
and the wind was suddenly sweeter  than roosevelt pine ,
the windows broke out and the cigarette smoke was drifting by ,
the bums on the bowery were swallowed in the lights as cars rumbled by in the night
screaming run for your life .

chorus :
Em C G ( fig 1 )
with cool and silvery eyes
Em C G ( fig 1 )
and a heart that was fit for desire
Em C G C
G C D
drowned in a river of tears oh a river  she cried left her with a heart
C G ( fig 1 )
made of ashes and fire .

Em , C , G x2
Em , C , G , C , G , C , D
C , G ( fig 1 )

3rd verse :
one day there was a silence and it washed through the town ,
and there was no reason to speak so no one made a sound ,
her eyes were indigo and the cats were all calico and the sail boats they all sailed
by . . . and a river she cried .

chorus :
with cool and silvery eyes
and a heart that was fit for desire
drowned in a river of tears oh a river  she cried left her with a heart
made of ashes and fire .
C G
ashes and fire
C G
ashes and fire
C G
ashes and fire

( end on A G )