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[dadd Dulcimer] John My Beloved - Sufjan Stevens

Track 1Bass4
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Tuning: D D A D

Capo: No capo

BPM: 150

    Key: Em
    INTRO
d|--2---------------------------------------|1---------------------------------------|2---------------------------------------|2---------------------------------------|3---------------------------------------|
A|--3---------------------------------------|1---------------------------------------|1---------------------------------------|1---------------------------------------|4---------------------------------------|
D|--4---------------------------------------|3---------------------------------------|0---------------------------------------|0---------------------------------------|6---------------------------------------|
D|--4---------4-------------------4---------|3---------3-------------------3---------|0---------0-------------------0---------|0---------0-------------------0---------|6---------6-------------------6---------|
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              3              3                         3              3                         3              3                         3              3                         3              3              

d|--3---------------------------------------|0---------------------------------------|0---------------------------------------|2---------------------------------------|1---------------------------------------|
A|--3---------------------------------------|0---------------------------------------|0---------------------------------------|3---------------------------------------|1---------------------------------------|
D|--3---------------------------------------|0---------------------------------------|0---------------------------------------|4---------------------------------------|3---------------------------------------|
D|--3---------3-------------------3---------|0---------0-------------------0---------|0---------0-------------------0---------|4---------4-------------------4---------|3---------3-------------------3---------|
         |____|____|    |____|____|               |____|____|    |____|____|               |____|____|    |____|____|               |____|____|    |____|____|               |____|____|    |____|____|         
              3              3                         3              3                         3              3                         3              3                         3              3              

[ preview ends at bar 10 — the interactive score has the rest ]

                                             VERSE 1

                                                                                                                                                                        Are we to speak, first day of the week, stumbling words at the bar?

                                                                                      Beauty blue eyes, my order of fries, Long Island kindess and wine.

    Beloved of John, I get it all wrong. I read you for some kind of poem.

                                                                                                                               Covered in lines, the fossils I find; have they no life of their own?
                                                                                                                               CHORUS

                                             So, can we pretend, sweetly, before the mystery ends? I am a

                                                                                                                                                                        man with a heart that offends with its lonely and greedy demands. There's

                                                                                      only a shadow of me; in a manner of speaking I'm dead.
                                                                                      VERSE 2

    Such a waste, your beautiful face. Stumbling carpet arise.

                                                                                                                               Go follow your gem, your white feathered friend; Icarus, point to the sun.

                                             If history speaks of two baby teeth, I’m painting the hills blue and red.

                                                                                                                                                                        They said beware, Lord hear my prayer, I’ve wasted my throes on your head.
                                                                                                                                                                        CHORUS

                                                                                      So, can we be friends, sweetly, before the mystery ends? I love you

    more than the world can contain in its lonely and ramshackle head. There's

                                                                                                                               only a shadow of me; in a manner of speaking I'm dead.
                                                                                                                               BRIDGE

                                                                                                                                                                        VERSE 3

                                                                                      I'm holding my breath, my tongue on your chest. What can be said of my heart?

    If history speaks, the kiss on my cheek, where there remains but a mark.

                                                                                                                               Beloved my John, so I’ll carry on, counting my cards down to one.

                                             And when I am dead, come visit my bed. My fossil is bright in the sun.
                                             CHORUS

                                                                                                                                                                        So, can we contend, peacefully before my history ends? Jesus I

                                                                                      need you, be near me, come shield me from fossils that fall on my head. There's

                                                                  only a shadow of me; in a manner of speaking I'm dead.
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Instruments
Bass4
Tracks
1
Tempo
150 BPM
Time signature
4/4
Tuning
D D A D
Key
D# minor
Difficulty
Beginner
Bars
197
Frets used
Frets 0-6
Published 4 Feb 2022

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[dadd Dulcimer] John My Beloved - Sufjan Stevens is a Bass4 score arranged by Finley. Read it as tablature or as standard sheet music notation, play it back at any tempo, and practise it a bar at a time.

It is written in 4/4 at 150 BPM, tuned D D A D. It is in D# minor, and the arrangement runs 197 bars. We grade it beginner — it stays between frets 0 and 6 and there are 5 chord shapes to learn. It is written as plain fretted notes, with no bends, slides or hammer-ons to learn first.

Chords used: D#sus2, C#, F5, D5, D#dim. Each one links to its shapes and fingerings.

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