New YLT Cover EP

Worked through five favorite Yo La Tengo songs for Pious Clapsaddle's debut EP, "Pious Sings!: The Songs of Yo La Tengo"

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1. Return to Hot Chicken
2. Cherry Chapstick
3. Detouring America with Horns
4. Double Dare
5. Autumn Sweater

Cherry Chapstick

 I listened to Cherry Chapstick for about a month straight this fall and learned to play it a few different ways. Here's the weak clawhammer treatment.
Cherry Chapstick

I often neglect the fretting on the 1st string of the A minor chord and the D chord, just leaving it open. This gives it more of a droning sound, which appeals to me.

G
Someone else's date
G
In someone else's door
G
There's a girl with cherry Chapstick on and nothing more.
               Am   D
It's such a lurid pose
             Am          D
and she seems this close
                  G       et cetera
But not to me

Clear as day
Crawling home at night
Wondering why the girls don't look at me when I walk by.
And the way they make me feel is way too real to believe

Wondering what it could be like if I could be that smooth
I could think about all that I missed out
It's hard to do

Someone else's date
In someone else's door
There's a girl with cherry Chapstick on and nothing more
It's such a lurid pose
and she seems this close
But not to me

Running around in circles all day long

In the evenings I enjoy playing the banjo and listening to Yo La Tengo. For some time I've been figuring out chord progressions to my favorite YLT songs and in most cases learning the riff and solo fingerings. I created this blog as a place to store and share the chords and tabs that I've developed.