Smoke Signals - Phoebe Bridgers

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Artist: Phoebe Bridgers
Song: Smoke Signals

NOTE: I've made this chord chart for myself and for the folks who 
1) own a capo, 
2) are gonna sing it in a lower (or higher) key, 
3) don't want to use Phoebe's alternate tuning, but 
4) do want easy fingering patterns.

I've studied the excelent tab version that's here in UG
(https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/phoebe-bridgers/smoke-signals-tabs-2018777),
then got the album's version into Audacity and altered the pitch half a step,
so the recording would match my guitar's tuning (Eb). I think I was able to get 
everything as right as I possibly could.

You can either play it using strumming or fingerpicking. If you chose the 
second option and also have your guitar tuned in D, you'd be able to 
generate fairly the same notes of the original recording, without much effort.

UPDATE: I'Be just recorded this exact version, if you guys 
wanna check it out: https://www.instagram.com/tv/Cav08PPpjBQ


[CHORDS]
G6add11:          320010
Am:               x02210
D7sus2:           xx0210
F7+* (F7+omit3):  xx3x10 ... F7+ (xx3210) or F7+sus2 (xx3010) also sound good

[CHORD SEQUENCES]
*:      
*:                        


[Intro]
     
(x2)

     

*


[Verse]
  
I went with yo

u up to
    
The place you 

grew up in,
        
We spent a wee

         
k in the cold


Just long enou

gh to

Walden it with

 you,
        
Any longer it 

             
would've got o


ld

        
Singing "Ace o


f Spades" when

 Lemmy died
    
But nothing's 

changed
        
L.A.'s all rig

    
ht

    
I'm sleeping i

n my bed again
    
And getting in

 my head and t

hen
        
Walk around th

            
e reservoir


[Chorus]
    
You,
        
You must've be

              
en looking for

 
 me
        
Sending smoke 

  
       signals
        
Pelicans circl


ing
            
Burning trash 

       
out        on 


  the beach


[Instrumental]
            *


[Verse]

One of your ey

es is

Always half sh

ut
          
Something happ

            
ened when you 

       
were a kid

       
I didn't know 

              
you then and I


'll never unde

rstand
        
Why it feels l

      
ike I did

       
"How Soon Is N

           
ow?" in an eig

hties sedan,
        
You slept insi

          
de of it, beca

use your dad
       
Lived in a cam

              
pground in the

 
 back of a van

, you said
        
That song will

              
 creep you out

 
 until you're 

dead


[Chorus]
       
And you,
        
Must've been l

           
ooking for me
        
Sending smoke 

  
       signals
        
Pelicans circl


ing
            
Burning trash 

       
out        on 


  the beach


[Instrumental]
*             *


[Verse]
       
I want to live

        
 at the Holida

y Inn
        
Where somebody

              
 else makes th

  
e bed

       
We'll watch TV

            
 while the lig

hts on the str

eet
        
Put all the st

       
ars to death

          
It's been on m


y mind since B

owie died
            
Just checking 

        
out to hide fr

   
om life
       
And all of our

           
 problems, I'm

 gonna solve '

em
     
With you ridin

g shotgun

Speeding 'caus

e fuck the cop

s


[Chorus]
   
You,
        
You must've be

              
en looking for

 
 me
        
Sending smoke 

  
       signals
        
Pelicans circl


ing
            
Burning trash 

       
out        on 


  the beach


[Instrumental]
            *


[Verse]
  
I buried a hat

chet
     
It's coming up

 lavender,
        
The future's u

              
nwritten, the 


past is a corr

idor

I'm at the exi

t

Looking back t

hrough the hal

l
        
You are anonym

     
ous, I am a co

ncrete wall


[Outro]
    
(x4)

        


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