The Princess Who Saved Herself by Jonathan Coulton, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

The Princess Who Saved Herself

by Jonathan Coulton

Biography:

Jonathan Coulton is a geek rock / folk rock musician active since 2003 from Brooklyn, known for his songs about geek culture. He is best known for such compositions as "Still Alive" and "Code Monkey", as well as his cover of Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back". He is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine and the musical director for John Hodgman's Little Gray Book Lectures.

Every week for a year Coulton released a new song for free on his website as part of his Thing a Week podcast

Read more on Last.fm

Other songs:

Share this tab

Four years of hard work!

This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!

intro riff
x3
||----------------------|----------------------||----------------------|-----|
||----------------------|--------------0-------||----------------------|-----|
||o------0---------0----|-------0----------0--o||-------0-------0------|--0--|
||o-2---------4---------|--5---------7---7----o||--2---------4-----4---|--0--|
||----------------------|----------------------||----------------------|--2--|
||----------------------|----------------------||----------------------|--3--|

C->D riff

|----------------------------|
|-----1-----------3----------|
|-----------0-----------0----|
|--------2-----------4-------|
|--3-----------5-------------|
|----------------------------|

This C->D riff appears throughout the song, marked with *.

C D
There was a castle by a waterfall,
C D
With a pink and purple wall,
C G 
And a princess living there.
  C D 
She had no parents and was all alone,
  C D
She got by on her own, 
G C G
And she liked it pretty well.

  D
 'Cause she never wore her socks,
  G
She had a pet snake,
  D
She bought a red guitar,
  Em
And she ate a whole cake.

  C D 
And there wasn't anybody there to tell her what to do,
D7 C A 
So she did what she wanted to. 
C D7 C D
Everybody knew the story of the princess who saved herself.
  C D
(Princess who saved herself)
  C D G
(Princess who saved herself) 

C D 
There was a dragon with a pointy tail,
  C D
He was bigger than a whale,
C G
 And his breath was terrible. 
*C D 
He scared the princess when he came around,
  C D
Tried to burn the castle down,
  G C G
But she caught him by his tail. 

D 
Then she tied him to a tree,
  G
So the dragon couldn't fly,
D 
She told him he was mean,
  Em
And it made the dragon cry.
 
C D 
When he finally apologized she offered him some tea,
  D7 A
He accepted it graciously.
C D7 C D
 Now he visits every weekend with the princess who saved herself.
C D 
(Princess who saved herself)
C D Eb 
(Princess who saved herself)  

(Bridge phone conversation...) 

G C D 
There was a witch who was an evil queen,
  C D
She was wrinkled old and green,
  C G
And she hated everyone.
  C D
 She saw the princess in her silver gown,
  C D
Put the poison apple down,
  G C D G
Asked her where she bought her clothes. 

D
 So they got the witch a dress,
  G
Put some make-up on her face,
  D
They started up a band,
  Em
And the dragon played the bass. 

C D
 Every Saturday they play until their fingertips are sore,
D7 C A 
Mostly Math Rock and Cuddle Core.
C D7 C D 
And they call themselves The Kingdom Of The Princess Who Saved Herself.
  C D
(Princess who saved herself)
C D 
(Princess who saved herself) 
C D 
The princess who saved herself.
  C D
(Princess who saved herself)
  C D G
(Princess who saved herself)