Biography:
The National is a Brooklyn-based indie rock band formed in 1999, by friends from Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. The band's lyrics are written and sung by Matt Berninger in a distinctive, deep baritone. The rest of the band is composed of two pairs of brothers: Aaron Dessner (guitar, bass, keyboards), Bryce Dessner (guitar), Scott Devendorf (bass, guitar) and Bryan Devendorf (drums).
Their self-titled debut album"The National" (Brassland 2001) was recorded and released before they had played even a single show.
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- About Today (transposed)
- Bloodbuzz Ohio
- Conversation 16
- Exily Vilify
- Fake Empire
- I Need My Girl
- I Should Live In Salt
- Slipping Husband
- Slow Show
- Sorrow
- Start A War
- The Rains Of Castamere
- The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness
- This Is The Last Time
- Trophy Wife
- Lemonworld
- The Runaway
- Wasp Nest
- 29 Years
- 90 Mile Water Wall
- A Little Faith
- About Today
- Afraid Of Everyone
- All Dolled
- All The Wine
- American Mary
- Anna Freud
- Anyones Ghost
- Apartment Story
- Ashamed Of The Story I Told
- Available
- Baby Well Be Fine
- Bitters Absolut
- Born To Beg
- Brainy
- Cardinal Song
- Carin At The Liquor Store
- City Middle
- Cold Girl Fever
- Dark Side Of The Gym
- Daughters Of The Soho Riots
- Day I Die
- Demons
- Dont Swallow The Cap
- Driver Surprise Me
- Empire Line
- England
- Exile Vilify
- Fireproof
- Forever After Days
- Graceless
- Green Gloves
- Guest Room
- Guilty Party
- Hard To Find
- Heavenfaced
- Humiliation
- I Should Live In A Salt
- Ill Still Destroy You
- It Never Happened
- Karen
- Lean
- Learning
- Lit Up
- Looking For Astronauts
- Lucky You
- Mistaken For Strangers
- Mr November
- Murder Me Rachael
- Nobody Else Will Be There
- Patterns Of Fairytales
- Pay For Me
- Peggy
- Pink Rabbits
- Pretty Forever
- Reasonable Man I Dont Mind
- Rest Of Years
- Rylan
- Sailors In Your Mouth
- Santa Clara
- Sea Of Love
- Secret Meeting
- Sleep All Summer
- Sleep Well Beast
- Slipped
- So Far Around The Bend
- Sugar Wife
- Sunshine On My Back
- Tall Saint
- Terrible Love
- The Day I Die
- The Geese Of Beverly Road
- The Perfect Song
- The Thrilling Of Claire
- Theory Of The Crows
- Think You Can Wait
- Thirsty
- Turtleneck
- Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks
- Wake Up Your Saints
- Walk It Back
- Watching You Well
- Without Permission
- You Were A Kindness
- Youve Done It Again Virginia
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AT LONG LAST somebody has put some chords up.
This is by no means an easy song to pick out. There are a lot of tracks and there seems
be a degree of improvisation particularly
in the low synthy noises so, it won't be exact by any stretch of the imagination but I
give you what are some damned
close chords and will certainly be recognisable as the song. It's just with all the
you've then got woodwind, a violin and a
piano, it's a bloody nightmare.
I will give you the chords and any important 'licks' that recur.
Whenever I give a chord with a specific bass note (e.g. G/B) please pay attention
it matters a lot in this song.
At the first instance of "I have weird memories of you" I have given three slightly
D/A chords. While they shouldn't
really be treated as separate chords it serves to highlight the musical idea of going
the 'e' to the 'f#' and down to 'b', which
at concert pitch (w/o capo) is 'g' to 'a' to 'd'.
I recommend playing it this way for the first line, but it's up to you if you want to do
every time it appears.
________________________________________
*CAPO on 3rd*
e|-0-----0--3----2---0------0---0------0--------2----2-----2------0---0----0---------|
B|-0-----1--0----3---3------2---3------3--------3----0-----3------0---3----0---------|
G|-0-----0--0----4---2------0---0------2--------2----2-----4------0---0----2---------|
D|-2-----2--0----4---0------2---2------0--------0----0-----4------0---2----2---------|
A|-2-----3--2----2---x------0---3------0--------0----0-----2------2---2----0---------|
E|-x-----x--x----x---x------x---x------x--------x----x-----2------3---0----0---------|
Em/B C G/B Bm Dsus2 A7 Cadd9 Dsus2/A D/A D6/A Bm/F# G6 Em7 Asus2/E
"Karen take me to..." (fret positions given WITHOUT capo)
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----10--11--13--10--------------------10--11--13--13----------------------|
G|12------------------12--10--------12--------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Em/B C G/B
Karen, take me to the nearest famous city middle
Bm
Where they hang the lights
Em/B C
Where it's random, and it's common versus common
Dsus2
La di la
[repeat]
Em/B A7
I've got five hundred in twenties
Cadd9
And I've got a ton of great ideas
Dsus2
I'm really worked up
Em/B A7
I'm on a good mixture, I don't want to waste it
Cadd9 Dsus2
I'm on a good mixture, I do not want to waste it
Em/B A7 Cadd9
I wanna go gator around the warm beds of beginners
Dsus2
I'm really worked up
Em/B C G/B
Karen, take me to the nearest famous city middle
Bm
Where they hang the lights
Em/B C
Where it's random, and it's common versus common
Dsus2
La di la
[repeat]
Dsus2/A------D/A---------D6/A Em/B
I have weird memories of you
G
Wearing long red socks and red shoes
Bm/F#
I have weird memories
D/A Em/B
I have weird memories of you (there is also a guitar track on the
G CD that repeats 'f# b b' over and
Pissing in a sink, I think over which colours the harmony
Bm/F# significantly. Add your own f#s if
I have weird memories of you you like)
Em/B A7 Cadd9
I wanna go gator around the warm beds of beginners
Dsus2
I'm really worked up
Em/B A7 Cadd9
I wanna go gator around the warm beds of beginners
Dsus2
I'm really worked up
Em/B C G/B
Karen, take me to the nearest famous city middle
Bm
Where they hang the lights
Em/B C
Where it's random, and it's common versus common
Dsus2
La di la
[repeat]
D/A Em/B
I have weird memories of you
G
Wearing long red socks and red shoes
Bm/F#
I have weird memories
D/A Em/B
I have weird memories of you
G
Pissing in a sink, I think
Bm/F#
I have weird memories of you
D/A Em
Parking your car, you said, I'm overwhelmed
G6 Bm/F#
You were thinking out loud, you said, I'm overwhelmed
D/A Em
You were parking your car, you said, I'm overwhelmed
G6 Bm/F#
You were thinking out loud, you said, I'm overwhelmed
D Em
You said, I think I'm like Tennessee Williams
G
I wait for the click
Bm/F#
I wait, but it doesn't kick in
D Em
I think I'm like Tennesse Williams
G
I wait for the click
Bm/F#
I wait, but it doesn't kick in
D/A Em/B
I have weird memories of you
G
Wearing long red socks and red shoes
Bm/F#
I have weird memories
D/A Em/B
I have weird memories of you
G
Pissing in a sink, I think
Bm/F#
I have weird memories of you
D/A Em
la da da da...
G6 Bm/F#
D Em
la da da da...
G6 Bm/F#
D/A Em Em7 Asus2/E....
I have weird memories of you
_______________________________________
If you're going to perform this with a band, then do some listening, have a think about
you yourself want to do, and let this
serve as a guideline for your arrangement.
Any queries,
[email protected]
Please don't forget to rate, and comment if you think you've spotted something that I haven't.
AT LONG LAST somebody has put some chords up.
This is by no means an easy song to pick out. There are a lot of tracks and there seems
be a degree of improvisation particularly
in the low synthy noises so, it won't be exact by any stretch of the imagination but I
give you what are some damned
close chords and will certainly be recognisable as the song. It's just with all the
you've then got woodwind, a violin and a
piano, it's a bloody nightmare.
I will give you the chords and any important 'licks' that recur.
Whenever I give a chord with a specific bass note (e.g. G/B) please pay attention
it matters a lot in this song.
At the first instance of "I have weird memories of you" I have given three slightly
D/A chords. While they shouldn't
really be treated as separate chords it serves to highlight the musical idea of going
the 'e' to the 'f#' and down to 'b', which
at concert pitch (w/o capo) is 'g' to 'a' to 'd'.
I recommend playing it this way for the first line, but it's up to you if you want to do
every time it appears.
________________________________________
*CAPO on 3rd*
e|-0-----0--3----2---0------0---0------0--------2----2-----2------0---0----0---------|
B|-0-----1--0----3---3------2---3------3--------3----0-----3------0---3----0---------|
G|-0-----0--0----4---2------0---0------2--------2----2-----4------0---0----2---------|
D|-2-----2--0----4---0------2---2------0--------0----0-----4------0---2----2---------|
A|-2-----3--2----2---x------0---3------0--------0----0-----2------2---2----0---------|
E|-x-----x--x----x---x------x---x------x--------x----x-----2------3---0----0---------|
Em/B C G/B Bm Dsus2 A7 Cadd9 Dsus2/A D/A D6/A Bm/F# G6 Em7 Asus2/E
"Karen take me to..." (fret positions given WITHOUT capo)
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----10--11--13--10--------------------10--11--13--13----------------------|
G|12------------------12--10--------12--------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Em/B C G/B
Karen, take me to the nearest famous city middle
Bm
Where they hang the lights
Em/B C
Where it's random, and it's common versus common
Dsus2
La di la
[repeat]
Em/B A7
I've got five hundred in twenties
Cadd9
And I've got a ton of great ideas
Dsus2
I'm really worked up
Em/B A7
I'm on a good mixture, I don't want to waste it
Cadd9 Dsus2
I'm on a good mixture, I do not want to waste it
Em/B A7 Cadd9
I wanna go gator around the warm beds of beginners
Dsus2
I'm really worked up
Em/B C G/B
Karen, take me to the nearest famous city middle
Bm
Where they hang the lights
Em/B C
Where it's random, and it's common versus common
Dsus2
La di la
[repeat]
Dsus2/A------D/A---------D6/A Em/B
I have weird memories of you
G
Wearing long red socks and red shoes
Bm/F#
I have weird memories
D/A Em/B
I have weird memories of you (there is also a guitar track on the
G CD that repeats 'f# b b' over and
Pissing in a sink, I think over which colours the harmony
Bm/F# significantly. Add your own f#s if
I have weird memories of you you like)
Em/B A7 Cadd9
I wanna go gator around the warm beds of beginners
Dsus2
I'm really worked up
Em/B A7 Cadd9
I wanna go gator around the warm beds of beginners
Dsus2
I'm really worked up
Em/B C G/B
Karen, take me to the nearest famous city middle
Bm
Where they hang the lights
Em/B C
Where it's random, and it's common versus common
Dsus2
La di la
[repeat]
D/A Em/B
I have weird memories of you
G
Wearing long red socks and red shoes
Bm/F#
I have weird memories
D/A Em/B
I have weird memories of you
G
Pissing in a sink, I think
Bm/F#
I have weird memories of you
D/A Em
Parking your car, you said, I'm overwhelmed
G6 Bm/F#
You were thinking out loud, you said, I'm overwhelmed
D/A Em
You were parking your car, you said, I'm overwhelmed
G6 Bm/F#
You were thinking out loud, you said, I'm overwhelmed
D Em
You said, I think I'm like Tennessee Williams
G
I wait for the click
Bm/F#
I wait, but it doesn't kick in
D Em
I think I'm like Tennesse Williams
G
I wait for the click
Bm/F#
I wait, but it doesn't kick in
D/A Em/B
I have weird memories of you
G
Wearing long red socks and red shoes
Bm/F#
I have weird memories
D/A Em/B
I have weird memories of you
G
Pissing in a sink, I think
Bm/F#
I have weird memories of you
D/A Em
la da da da...
G6 Bm/F#
D Em
la da da da...
G6 Bm/F#
D/A Em Em7 Asus2/E....
I have weird memories of you
_______________________________________
If you're going to perform this with a band, then do some listening, have a think about
you yourself want to do, and let this
serve as a guideline for your arrangement.
Any queries,
[email protected]
Please don't forget to rate, and comment if you think you've spotted something that I haven't.
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