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.

Created on 11-23-97 by Daniel E. Smith.