The Man With The Axe ukulele

The Man With The Axe

• Verse 1

Original key: E
Capo on 2nd fret
If you find it too hard to play, you can switch the Em7-5 with an Gm or a C7 depending on what you like best

Verse 1
G                     D
If I had to break it down
                 F#m   G
I'd say it's the way you love to dance
 Em7-5         D                      Bm
Movin' the furniture when my back is turned
      A7                        N.C.
The flick of the lights and the world falls away

Chorus
           G                   D
And your office job and your silver hair
         F#m                         G                   Em7-5
But our shapes in the dark are the reason I've stayed for all these years

Verse 2
    G               D                   F#m
I thought I was a genius, but now I'm twenty-two
     G              Em7-5                       D
And it's startin' to feel like all I know how to do is
 Bm                A
Put on a suit and take it away

Chorus
         G                           D
With my fistful of tunes that it's painful to play
  F#m                     G
Fingernail worlds like favorite seashells
   Em7-5         D                    Bm    A7
They fill up my nights and then they float away

Verse 3
G                                        D
I've got hundreds of gowns, I've got paintings in frames
       F#m                                  G
And a throat that fills with panic every festival day
 Em7-5              D                       Bm  A7
Dutifully fallin' apart for the Princess of Norway

Chorus
     G              D                   F#m     G
But you, with your doll's lashes, your infinite t-shirts
 Em7-5                        D                     Bm
I should've known when your favorite record was the same as my father's
       A7
You'd take me down

Verse 4
    G                        D
I guess I'll always be this way
    F#m                           G
Swallowed up by the words, and halfway to space
  Em7-5           D                      Bm
But there, by the fire, you offered your hand
           A7
And as I took it, I loved you, the boy with the plan

Chorus
 E              A         E   A
You felled me clean as a pine
     E            A          C7  D7         E
The man with the axe and the lo- ok in his eyes

Break
E / A
E / A

Outro
E                           A
We've been through so many hard times
               E                  A
I'm writin' a love song for you, baby

E / A / E

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