This is a compilation of tabs from various users to form a perfect album tab. All credit will be properly given to each user that contributed to towards the album's tabs/chords. REMEMBER ALL CREDIT IS GIVEN (I only tweak to clean up! This could not have been done without you!) Artist: The Avett Brothers Album: Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions Tracks: 1. Talk On Indolence (Tuning: EADGBE) 2. Pretty Girl From Feltre (Tuning: EADGBE CAPO 2) 3. Colorshow (Tuning: EADGBE) 4. Distraction #74 (Tuning: EADGBE) 5. Sixteen In July (Tuning: EADGBE) 6. Left On Laura, Left On Lisa (Tuning: EADGBE) 7. A Lover Like You (Tuning: EADGBE CAPO 2) 8. Pretend Love (Tuning: EADGBE) 9. Matrimony (Tuning: EADGBE CAPO 2) 10.The Lowering: A Sad Day In Greenville Town (Tuning: EADGBE CAPO 7) 11.The Fall (Tuning: EADGBE) 12.Dancing Daze (Tuning: EADGBE) 13.Famous Flower of Manhattan (Tuning: EADGBE CAPO 2) 14.40 East (Tuning: EADGBE CAPO 2) 15.Gimmeakiss (Tuning: EADGBE) 16.Denouncing November Blue (Uneasy Writer) (Tuning: EADGBE) 17.Four Thieves Gone (Tuning: EADGBE) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Talk On Indolence Tuning: EADGBE Tabbed By: Clearangel1 Intro: G (x3) C D (No Chord) Well I've been lockin' myself up in my house for sometime now Readin' and writin' and readin' and thinkin' and searching for reasons and missing the seasons. The Autumn, the Spring, the Summer, the snow. The record will stop and the record will go. Latches latched the windows down, the dog coming in and the dog going out. Up with caffeine and down with a shot. Constantly worried about what I've got. Distracting my work but I can't make a stop and my confidence on and my confidence off. And I sink to the bottom and rise to the top and I think to myself that I do this a lot. World outside just goes it goes it goes it goes it goes it goes... and witness it all from the blinds of my window. THREE, FOUR Chorus: G C D I'm a little nervous 'bout what you'll think When you see me in my swimming trunks And last night in New York I got raging drunk Remember one time I got raging drunk with you Now, I can recall a time when we made the city Streets our playground, kissing in the fountains Filled with cigarettes and bottles Sped through Italian city streets of cobblestone Because we had to Because I loved you Because the damned alcohol Beacuse what ever at all (No Chord) Now I've grown to aware of my mortality To let go and forget about dying Long enough to drop the hammer down And let the indolence go wild and flying through Because we had to ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Pretty Girl From Feltre Tuning: EADGBE CAPO 2 Tabbed By: Unregistered G C G C G C G D Susanna, Italiana, what do you want to do? G C G C G C G D I thought I had figured it out but that was before you Em C G Walking a mile into town Em D G Hoping to see you around Em C D G Hoping your man is nowhere to be found Em C G And hoping we'll go to your room And hoping we'll go to your room G C G C G C G D Quietly act like you love me until I leave Feltre G C G C G And when you learn of my return C G D Watch what the townspeople say Em C G Riding in your cargo van Em D G Driving your mom's cargo van Em C D G If you only knew how charming it was Em C G The lure of your folks cargo van The lure of your folks cargo van G C G Go tell Max C G Be clear with the facts C G D Leave me a letter to there G C G C G I still have the one from before C G D From when I turned twenty four ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Colorshow Tuning: EADGBE Tabbed By: MrRollinStone Intro Am - F - Am - F Verse1 Am F Am F Be Loud, Let your colors show, try to keep the madness low Am F Am F if they hear, and its wrong and they come with torches on Am yeah come on Verse 2 Am F Am F Be Loud, Let your colors show, try to keep the madness low Am F Am F I tell them no, with my hands, make them understand the plan of it Am Bright and gone Chorus C Am F G And I'm done forever, it's you and me forever (x3) You can just repeat the chord progression for the following lyrics. It shouldn't be that hard Verse 3 Be loud let the others know, first a whisper then it grows I tell them Go with my hands, make them understand the last of it yeah come on, pain and all Verse 4 Leave out, pack your things and go, leave the baby makers home theres a time (now), and a place (now), someone built to take the race when it calls you go, head down, don't you make a sound keep your plans to yourself, they'll come true, they follow you, they;re what you're obligated to , don't listen to nobody else And I'm done forever, it's you and me forever (x7) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Distraction #74 Tuning: EADGBE Tabbed By: Glued to Peons e------------------------------------------| B----------4-5-4---------------------------| G---4-4h6---------6-4-6-4-----4-6-4--------| D--------------------------6---------6-4/2-| A------------------------------------------| E------------------------------------------| e------------------------------------------| B------------------------------------------| G-----------------4-6-4--------------------| D--2--4--4h6--6----------6--2-4-6-2-4-1-2--| A------------------------------------------| E------------------------------------------| [Strum E chord, and hit 12th fret harmonics] E A I was in love with your beauty E A From the day you walked my way. E A Oh, how I wish that was enough to E B7 E Have made me want to stay. See, I'm as true as I try to be, And I must say my girl, I tried the best to give to you All of the truest in the world. But, when I left your house that morning in that ragged Thunderbird, I tried so hard to fight the voices From the devils that I heard. See, there's a highway to the right of us I took a year ago, And since a year ago can't drive past Without turning down that road. [Strum E chord] G C G C And I knew it, I never should have turned the wheel. G C G C And I knew it, the voices calling me weren't real. G C G C I knew it, listen to the song they sing. G C G G C G I knew I was wrong, and I knew I was wrong. [Repeat Intro, strum E chord, and slide down from 12th Fret on low E] So, give me a try at describing Just how difficult it is, When you kind of love two girls To figure out which one you miss. Stumble away from your stairway With your perfume on my clothes. Well, I kind of loved two girls But, now I kind of lost them both. And I knew it, I never should have turned the wheel. And I knew it, the voices calling me weren't real. I knew it, listen to the song they sing. I knew I was wrong, and I knew I was wrong. And if I could gather up the damage That I've rendered in my life, Place it on a scale and weigh against The damage done that night. Then it'd be safe to say The weight of all I did and didn't do Would surly float against the lightest wrong I ever did to you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Sixteen In July Tuning: EADGBE Tabbed By: Macheeoo D G What was it like for you D G I can tell you in truth what it was like for me D F#m To be sixteen in July, sixteen in July G License in my hand A Freedom on my mind D F#m I was sixteen in July, sixteen in July G With summer to my left A And no one to my right What did you want to hear on your radio Even if it did not come in clear You'd still be sixteen in July, sixteen in July With license in your hand and freedom on your mind If youre sixteen in July, sixteen in July With summer to your left And no one to your right For me it was shortcut road The girl was new and the car was old Were you in love like me? Or at least as in love as you can be? When youre sixteen in July, sixteen in July With license in your hand and freedom on your mind I was sixteen in July, sixteen in July With summer to my left, and no one to my right ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Left On Laura, Left On Lisa Tuning: EADGBE Tabbed By: Finn MacCool G C Nobody knows it but I am so sad G Bm Nobody knows it but I am so sad C D G And that is the saddest of all my girl C D G$ That is the saddest of all G C We climbed the ladder to the top of my house G Bm Never letting go of your hand C D G The sky trades the moon for the sun my girl C D G$ The sky trades the moon for the sun G C And I gave to you my ugly brown coat G Bm You made it pretty when you put it on C D G Warmth in the early morning chill my girl C D G$ Warmth in the early April G C Then you said you’d trade the love of a man G Bm Tears fell soft from your face to my hands C D G Said you’d trade your heart for mine my girl C D G$ I traded my heart for those days G C And you made it clear it was strictly a deal G Bm Of springtime love and that’s how I should feel C D G So I set the clock back an hour my girl C D G$ I set the time a just right G C You see somewhere back there when I was boy G Bm Furious I had become by the point C D G That men are just liars and thieves of sorts C D G$ Men are just liars and thieves G C But I still believe and I stand by my words G Bm I don’t know what you have seen or you’ve heard C D G But somebody’s lying to you my girl C D G$ Somebody’s lying to you G C You really made me believe I could stay G Bm Part with you actions in part what you said C D G But that was just foolish pride my girl C D G$ And those are only feelings inside G C So I’m going back to the place where we met G Bm I’m going to find the beer bottle we left C D G Wedged in the limbs of the tree that we sat in C D G$ Wedged in the magnolia tree G C Well we hid for days like a proud pair of thieves G Bm Too sure we were right too stubborn too leave C D G Wasted with the moment we lifted my girl C D G Stolen forever with you ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. A Lover Like You Tuning: EADGBE CAPO 2 Tabbed By: Macheeoo G Do I need to tell you? Em I don't need to be untrue C G Not when I have a lover like you. G (harmonics) x2 D G Now it don't take that much thought Em Not with all the love you've got G And you give it to me free Em 'STOP' Some might take that for granted but certainly not me C G No not when I have a lover like you G (harmonics) x2 D Em C I haven't eyes for anyone else Em C I'm thinking of you and nobody else Em C Am I haven’t eyes for anyone else but you C Yooouuu.... G (harmonics) x2 D G She may be all on my case Em Want to kiss me on my face G Put my hands on her waist Em 'STOP' Take me back to her place I would happily follow C G But not when I have a lover like you. Em C I haven't eyes for anyone else Em C I'm thinking of you and nobody else Em C Am I haven't eyes for anyone else but you C G But yooouuu.... But yooouuu.... But yooouuu.... But yooouuu.... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. Pretend Love Tuning: EADGBE Tabbed By: Macheeoo Verse: A7add9 D D7 Don't be fooled by my words G Gm Don't be fooled by my song D If you choose to belive them A7 A7add9 You'll plainly be wrong D D7 I have love for my family G Gm I have love for my friends D That's as far as it goes, G D And I must let you know A7 D My love for you was pretend. Chorus: D7 G Gm Pretend love, pretend love, D G D Don't be mistaken, I've only been fakin' A7 D D7 Pretend love Instrumental Break/Solo (Repeat Chorus Chords) e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| B|--------------------555-5h7-5-7-8t/10-8-10-11t-10h11h13p11--8h10h11p10-----| G|--222-2/4-4/6~-666~--------------------------------------------------------| D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| e|-----------------------------------------------9~--------------------------| B|--8\7-8888h10-8-10-8h10p8-7-8-7h8p7-55/7-555/10----5/7---------------------| G|-------------------------------------------------------7--2/5-4-2-----2----| D|------------------------------------------------------------------2h4---4-0| A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| D D7 Don't you know I've a gift G Gm And I've wraped it in truth D Your birthday's tomorrow, A7 A7add9 But the gift is not for you, D D7 But if I came with a present G Gm I would bring you a clue D Hopes you'd finally see G D That your feelings for me A7 D Will never be returned D7 G Gm Pretend love, pretend love D G D Don't be mistaken, I've only been fakin' A7 D Pretend love D7 G Gm Pretend love, pretend love D G Don't be mistaken, I've only been faking A7 D (Walk D C# B A) G Gm... Pretend love ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. Matrimony Tuning: EADGBE CAPO 2 Tabbed By: Unregistered (arranged to lyrics by Macheeoo) Intro: Em G Am Em Em C G Things didn't work out like they should, Em G Am Em Em C G Farther from how you thought they would Em G Am Em C D G Em C Do you still want my hand? C D G Em C Do you think I'm still your man? C D G Em C I'll change everything I can. Em B7 Matrimony... Holy plans and holy gifts Holy shit what did we get You said you've got plans of your own You're gonna work and I'll stay home. Do you still want my hand? Do you still think I'm your man? I'll change everything I can. Matrimony... My dog is loud and my dog is wild We're too young to have a child Can you keep the dog next week? I'll be gone the next three. Do you still want my hand? Do you still think I'm your man? I'll change everything I can. Matrimony... Solo: Em G Em Am Em C Em D Em G Em Am Em C Em D Em (hold last Em for 5 bars) I ain't through I ain't walking out Leaving ain't what I'm about, You may scream and I may shout. But baby I love you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.The Lowering Tuning: EADGBE Tabbed By: TFYNH G Bm If I had known, your heart was down C D that lonely day in Greenville town, G Bm Then I would have been more concerned C D but later on I truly learned G Bm how it can feel in every bone C D to really see you're all alone Em C G But I ll kiss your head, Em C G when death finds your bed C and you are gone And if I had seen the way it would be Id hushed your cries when you came to me If I could do what I did to you the same to me then I would love for you to see that I sleep with remorse and regret hangs round my door for ever more. If I had known the lowering tide, was lowering with the way you felt inside if I had known all hope was gone a broken heart and a broken home That pierced, my lovers past and carved a lonely path... for her to walk So if ever someone one says to you, life isnt fair, get used to it Then you should say Well it might be… If folks like you won't let it be' but Ill kiss your head when death becomes my bed and I am gone ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.The Fall Tuning: EADGBE Tabbed By: PereiraDaMan Intro: G C G C G C D x 3 (With Harmonica Riff) G C G Give me something new that I haven't felt before G D The messages of love and directions to you door G C But we talk slowly, I don’t hear good anymore G D C And we all Fall down G D C And we all Fall down G C G Don't die on me lady, only good things can come G D To those who practice reason and recognize good fun G C Your absence is the bullet and the past is your gun G D C And we all fall down G D C And we all fall down G C G She still doesnt answer though she knows shes done wrong G D We buried the memories along with the songs G C When she wakes up, I hope that we are gone G D C And we all fall down G D C And we all fall down G C There's a visitor in black at my neighbors house G D My neighbor says tomorrow the visitor says now G C G When he comes here please tell him that I'm out G D C And we all fall down G D C And we all fall down ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12.Dancing Daze Tuning: EADGBE Tabbed By: Unregistered F G C I've seen the way you deal with things F G C The troubles that this life will bring F G C Am If it gets to you then I can tell by the way you sing F G C You act like it just doesn't mean a thing F G C Am I see you dancin all your, dancin all your, dancin all your daze F G C Am Maybe you can tell me how it is you got that way F G C Am Dancing all your, dancing all your, dancing all your daze F G C Come on, come on there's got to be a way There's all these things that get me down This dirty world is full of clowns They'll build you up just so they can knock you down Laugh at you while your there on the ground Chorus Single Strums!! F G C Am I really like the way it feels F G C Am I look at you and it's real F G C Am I see you dancin all your, dancin all your, dancin all your daze Maybe you can tell me how it is you got that way Dancing all your, dancing all your, dancing all your daze Come on, come on that's got to be the way ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.Famous Flower of Manhattan Tuning: EADGBE CAPO 2 Tabbed By: Unregistered Intro/Bridge |--------------------------------------------------| |-0-3----------------------------------------------| |-------2-4-2-0-0--2-4-2-0-2-4-2-0-2-4-2-0-2-4-0---| |-(0)----------------------------------------------| |-(x)----------------------------------------------| |-(3)----------------------------------------------| play between the G note and D open note while playing intro. |-3-----3---------3----------------------------| |-3-----0-----3----------------3---------------| |-0-or--0----------x2 then----------5--4-------| |-2-----2--------------------------------------| |-3-----3----3--3-----------3----3---3---------| |----------------------------------------------| play to which Cmaj7 or C9 chord you prefer For the G and Cmaj7 during the verses, just fingerpick between mostly E, D, G, and B string with occasionally high E. The chords are the same for every verse. G And I found a flower in a field G A field of cars and people; rows of concrete, paint, and steel Cmaj7 Manhattan is where it grew G And I thought to cut it from it's stem G And take it from the cracks between bricks that it lay in Cmaj7 G And save it from city strife Away from the city life Then someone they whispered in my ear A county girl cant be made out of anybody here Dont touch it, it loves you not Dont touch it, it loves you not Cause blue birds dont fly without their wings And when we put them in a cage the world can't hear them sing So selfish when greed sets in Possession, the king of sin And people dont ever let you down Forever find a way to kill whatever life they've found A heart beat and I want it too Manhattan is where she grew So I left and I let the flower be And yesterday saw the flower on cable TV Much prettier than here with me For all of the world to see Much prettier than here with me ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.40 East Tuning: EADGBE CAPO 2 Tabbed By: Macheeoo Intro/Riff: Repeat x4 G Bm C e|--------------2------0----------------------------------| B|--------------3------1--1-------------------------------| G|---<12>-------4------0--0-------------------------------| D|---<12>-------4------2--0h2p0---------------------------| A|--------0-1-2-2--2-3-3--3----2-3-2-0--------------------| E|--3----------------------------------3------------------| G Bm C Sleep darling rest your mind G Bm C I'll drive all night to get to you G Bm C Please moan softly if you must moan at all G Bm C I'm moving through the night toward you Am G Am G Sleep darling, sleep darling G D7/F# C I'm on my way to you G D7/F# C I'm on my way to you REPEAT INTRO Rest my angel, not one word, Between you and I on the telephone line You are weary and need your sleep So leave the hard thinking and the driving to me Sleep darling, sleep darling I'm on my way to you I'm on my way to you Let go ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.Gimmeakiss Tuning: EADGBE Tabbed By: Jpoole Intro: C B Am G F G G B C Verse 1: C/G Gimme a dance, gimme a chance, gimme your hands F Give me just a little bit of your sweet romance G C/G Give me your hands C/G I know what they say about me C/G F Hell, I started most of them rumors myself you see G C/G *STOP* So give 'em to me Chorus: G F C/G It wont take long for me to tell you who I am G F C/G You hear my voice right now well that’s pretty much what I am Verse 2: C/G So gimme a smile, gimme a while, gimme a mile F Give me just a little bit of your sweet devine G C/G Just give me a smile C/G I know what you said about me F I think maybe if I had a preachin' judge then I'd forgive you see G C/G *STOP* So give 'em to me Chorus: G F C/G It wont take long for me to tell you who I am G F C/G You hear my voice right now well that’s pretty much what I am Bridge: F C I'm bailin on my life F C Cause I'm wailing on my life G *STOP* So please just gimme a kiss F Well I know you're waiting for a ring C/G G C/G Ease up little lady, see, I'm not promising anything Verse 3: C/G So gimme a chance, gimme a dance, gimme your hands F Give me just a little bit of your sweet romance G C/G Just give me your hands I know what they say about me F Hell, I started most of them rumors myself you see G C/G So give 'em to me Chorus: G F C/G It wont take long for me to tell you who I am G F C/G You hear my voice right now well that’s pretty much what I am Bridge: F C I'm bailin on my life F C Cause I'm wailing on my life G *STOP* So please just gimme a kiss Outro: C B Am G F G B C ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.Denouncing November Blue Tuning: EADGBE Tabbed By: Macheeoo Intro: G C D G e|--3-0------------------------------| B|------3-0--------------------------| G|----------2-0----------------------| D|--------------2-0------------------| A|------------------3-2-0------------| E|------------------------3----------| G November came and went, C Like a summer that I spent, D G With a no name girl that walked in jelly shoes. G I returned to my home, C With a heart part made of stone, D G And I cried all night for a girl I never knew. G From the east it comes, C Her love and the rising sun, D G And I pray each time they come, it's not the last. G You see I've got strong, C I made it through what came along, D G But I can't move on for the beauty of the past. Came across a pretty girl, For about a month she was my world, And I held her hand, and swore we'd never part. I moved on, she stayed behind, I said I'd call, she said she'd write, We lost touch the moment I drove off. I left town like a gambler with, The sense of cashin' all the chips, Before I lost them all on a bad deal. I made believe I was in a race, Drove ten thousand miles in seven days, While writing a book called "Being A Free Man". Met more people than the president, The good times came and the good times went, And I learned how to ignore my hunger pains. I looked ahead to the open road, thought about the people and what they know, And wrote a book called "People Don't Know Nothin". (no matter what they tell ya, man) Once I spent my last dime, And counted the ratio of miles to time, I looked up to my disdain and my surprise. I had driven my car around the world, Ended back in the town with the girl, So I wrote a book called "Life in Prison". (Volume. 1) I see that girl every now and then, And we drink to having such good friends, And apologize for the way it did not last. Funny thing that it's all true, And I'll always love November Blue, But I turned her down for the beauty of the past. November came and went, Like a summer that I spent, With a no name girl that walked in jelly shoes. I returned to my home, With a heart part made of stone, And I cried all night for a girl I never knew. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17.Four Thieves Gone Tuning: EADGBE Tabbed By: Oaw19 Tuning: Standard e|-------3-2---|---------------|-------3-2---|---------------|-3-2-0---------| B|-3-1-0-----3-|-3-1-0-------3-|-3-1-0-----3-|-3-1-0-------3-|-------3-1-0---| G|-------------|-------0-2-2---|-------------|-------0-2-2---|-------------2-| D|-------------|---------------|-------------|---------------|---------------| A|-------------|---------------|-------------|---------------|---------------| E|-------------|---------------|-------------|---------------|---------------| Intro Four thieves gone; one woke up Said we cant use the songs we wrote Swear Ive heard that very line e|---------------|-----------------------3-|-3-----2------------------| B|-----3---0---3-|-3-----1-----0-----------|-------------3----------3-| G|-2-2---0---0---|-------------------------|--------------------------| D|---------------|----0-----0-----0----0---|----0-----0-----0----0----| A|---------------|-------------------------|--------------------------| E|---------------|-3-----3-----3----3------|-3-----3-----3-----3------| I cant claim this music mine Three thieves left, one got smart e|------------------|--------------|-------------|---------------------3-| B|-3--------3-------|-1-------1----|-3-------3---|-3----1-----0----------| G|------------------|-------2----2-|---2---2---2-|-----------------------| D|---0----0---0---0-|---2----------|-0---0-------|----0----0-----0---0---| A|------------------|-0---0--------|-------------|-----------------------| E|-3----3---3---3---|--------------|-------------|-3----3-----3----3-----| I saw him leaving in his car From the road e|-3----2---------------|-----------|-------------|--------------------------| B|-----------3--------3-|-3-------3-|-0---------0-|-1------------3----3------| G|----------------------|-----------|-------------|----------------2---------| D|----0----0---0---0----|---0---0---|---2----2----|---2----------0----0------| A|----------------------|-----------|-------------|-0---0-2-3-4--------------| E|-3----3----3---3------|-3---3-----|-0---0-------|----------------------0-2-| I heard him scream It lacks originality Three thieves left One got smart I saw him leaving in his car From the road I heard him scream It lacks originality Two thieves left They both agree They live and die off melody One just fell dead On his back When we listen to the track One thief left He went to jail He left a mile on paper trail Hes in for life He doesn't care Its worth the songs that put him there Four thieves gone Four thieves gone Four thieves gone Four thieves gone ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- END!!!