Biography:
The Civil Wars were an American musical duo composed of singer-songwriters Joy Williams and John Paul White. After releasing a live-performance album and a four-song EP, their full-length album Barton Hollow was released in 2011. The band won the Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance and Best Folk Album in 2012.
Williams and White met in 2008, during a song-writing session or "writing camp" at a music studio in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Other songs:
- 20 Years
- Barton Hollow
- Between The Bars
- Birds Of A Feather
- Cest La Mort
- Dance Me To The End Of Love
- Devils Backbone
- Disarm
- Dust To Dust
- Falling
- Forget Me Not
- From This Valley
- Girl With The Red Balloon
- I Had Me A Girl
- I've Got This Friend
- If I Didn't Know Better
- Kingdom Come
- Poison And Wine
- Sour Times
- The Girl With The Red Balloon
- Tip Of My Tongue
- To Whom It May Concern
- C’est La Mort
- Devil’s Backbone
- Eavesdrop
- I’ve Got This Friend
- The One That Got Away
- You Are My Sunshine
- Billie Jean
- Go
- Goodbye Girl
- I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
- I Want You Back
- If I Didnt Know Better
- Ive Got This Friend
- Lily Love
- O Come O Come Emmanuel
- Oh Henry
- One That Got Away
- Sacred Heart
- Same Old Same Old
- Tell Mama
- Tracks In The Snow
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O Come, O Come Emmanuel - The Civil Wars
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Tabbed by: Marlaina
You can pretty much pluck the rest of the song however
you'd like and it will sound nice. But he seems to be hitting
the root note of each chord and plucking two other strings
individually. However, I do not think he has a specific pattern.
Intro/riff
e---0-2-0-3-0---0---0-2-0---0---0--:|
B-0-----------3---1-------0---0----:|
G----------------------------------:|
D----------------------------------:|
A----------------------------------:|
E-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--:|
x2
Em Am Em
O Come, O come Emmanuel
G Am Em
And ransom captive Israel
Am G D
That mourns in lonely exile here
Em Am Em
Until the Son of God appears
CHORUS
D C
Rejoice, Rejoice
Am Em
Emmanuel
G Am Em
Shall come to thee O Israel
Riff
Em Am Em
O come, Thou Wisdom from on high
G Am Em
Who orderest all things mightily
Am G D
To us the path of knowledge show
Em Am Em
And teach us in her ways to go
CHORUS
D C
Rejoice, Rejoice
Am Em
Emmanuel
G Am Em
Shall come to thee O Israel
Em Am Em
O come, thou dayspring, come and cheer
G Am Em
Thy Spirits by thine advent here
Am G D
And drive away the shades of night
Em Am Em
And death's dark shadow put to flight
CHORUS
D C
Rejoice, Rejoice
Am Em
Emmanuel
G Am Em
Shall come to thee O Israel
Riff
O Come, O Come Emmanuel - The Civil Wars
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Tabbed by: Marlaina
You can pretty much pluck the rest of the song however
you'd like and it will sound nice. But he seems to be hitting
the root note of each chord and plucking two other strings
individually. However, I do not think he has a specific pattern.
Intro/riff
e---0-2-0-3-0---0---0-2-0---0---0--:|
B-0-----------3---1-------0---0----:|
G----------------------------------:|
D----------------------------------:|
A----------------------------------:|
E-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--:|
x2
Em Am Em
O Come, O come Emmanuel
G Am Em
And ransom captive Israel
Am G D
That mourns in lonely exile here
Em Am Em
Until the Son of God appears
CHORUS
D C
Rejoice, Rejoice
Am Em
Emmanuel
G Am Em
Shall come to thee O Israel
Riff
Em Am Em
O come, Thou Wisdom from on high
G Am Em
Who orderest all things mightily
Am G D
To us the path of knowledge show
Em Am Em
And teach us in her ways to go
CHORUS
D C
Rejoice, Rejoice
Am Em
Emmanuel
G Am Em
Shall come to thee O Israel
Em Am Em
O come, thou dayspring, come and cheer
G Am Em
Thy Spirits by thine advent here
Am G D
And drive away the shades of night
Em Am Em
And death's dark shadow put to flight
CHORUS
D C
Rejoice, Rejoice
Am Em
Emmanuel
G Am Em
Shall come to thee O Israel
Riff
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