Burn All the Letters
Emily Saliers

Indigo Girls
Shaming of the Sun
1997

Another acoustic song off the Indigo Girls' latest.
I hope you guys can get together and put some harmonies
into this song, cause it probably sounds kinda lame
by itself.  Enjoy!

Chords


                  C#m          Asus4             D    Dsus4  D
I am sorry that I set my sights  on the things I read
                         G             Asus4               Bm
Something meant for your husband maybe you left under the bed
                                  G                       Asus4         D    Dsus4  D
Once upon a love those words blew free and secret but the pages lay around
                                   G               Asus4                D    Dsus4  D
Drifted into the hands of the publisher and the greedy generations on down

CHORUS
             G                   A
Burn all the letters (someone is always watching)
                        Bm
The government's on the phone (whether openly or secretly)
             G                     
Burn all the letters (breathe life into your story)
          A                 D    Dsus4  D
Send them on to a safer home (burn it to secrecy)
             G                     A              D  Dsus2  Csus2
Burn all the letters brand them in you before you go
                           G                      Asus4                    D    Dsus4  D
Soldiers are coming to plunder but there are some things they will never know

key change
                        G#     A#                         D#
We made our love out of dignity we dug our nails in the dirt
                                G#             A#                    Cm
Hung out towel-soaked souls out on the line we loved so hard that it hurt
                         G#              A#               Cm
To ease my pain I took a pen and paper incarnate came the bleeding
                        G#            A#                    D#
Send it back before the public eye perverts it in in the reading

CHORUS
             G#                  A#
Burn all the letters (someone is always watching)
                        Cm
The government's on the phone (whether openly or secretly)
              G#
Burn all the letters (breathe life into your story)
          A#                D#
Send them back to a safer home (burn it to secrecy)
             G#                    A#             D#  D#sus2  C#sus2
Burn all the letters brand them in you before you go
                   G#                            A#
Soldiers coming to plunder but there are some things they will never know

VOCAL INTERLUDE

D# (guitar tacets)

CHORUS
Burn all the letters
The government's on the phone on the phone
Burn all the letters
Send them on to a safer home
             G#         A#             D#  D#sus2  C#sus2         
Burn all the letters to you and you to me
                                 G#                  A#
They're coming to take what they can but they cannot read what they cannot see

VOCAL OUTRO

D#

CHORDS:

G	355433
Asus4	x02230
Dsus4	xx0233
G#	466544
A#	688766
D#	x6888x
Cm	x35543

To learn why these chords are named this way, check out Dansm's Guitar Chord Theory.