I Gave You

Bonnie Prince Billy – I gave you
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Capo 3

Tuning: dropped d = DADGBE
(all chords can be played with normal tuning except Em/D)

[Chords]

(normal tuning in brackets)
A7sus2 X02000             C      X32010               Em7/D  X50000
Asus2  X02200             D      000232 (X00232)      Em9    X22002
Bm     X24432             Em     222000 (022000)      G      5X000X (3X000X)
Bm7    X24232             Em/D   022000 (X22000)      G/A    4X000X (2X000X)

[Verse 1]

  Asus2      Asus2     Em7/D      A7sus2
I gave you a child and you didn't want it
D                    D         Em  Em
That's the most that I have to give
  Asus2      Asus2     Em7/D      A7sus2
I gave you a house and you didn't haunt it
D            D             Em  Em
Now where am I supposed to live ?

[Verse 2]
  G          D        Bm7            Em
I gave you a tree and you did not embrace it
  G           D            Bm          C
I gave you a nightmare and you didn't chase it
    D          G         G/A   Em        Em/D C
I'd give you a dream and you'd only wake from it
D        D                   Em  Em
Now I'll never go to sleep again

[Verse 3]
    D          G         G/A   Em        Em/D C
I'd give you a treasure and you'd only take from it
D        D                   Em  Em
Look at the hole where jewelry had been
Asus2      Asus2   Em7/D           A7sus2
Baby, oh baby, why must you escape from it –
     D            D                Em    Em
This love that we once called our friend ?

[Instrumental]
C C C Em Em9 Em

[Verse 4]
  G            D        Bm7        Em
I gave you my body and you ate a plenty
  G            D         Bm          C
I gave you ten lives and you wasted twenty
D                G G/A   Em   Em/D   C
Now I'm standing empty, helpless and bare
D          D                   Em  Em
Without a morsel left of me to give

[Outro]
    Asus2         Asus2     Em7/D   A7sus2
And you, you have vanished into the air
D            D           Em  Em
The air in which I must live