Lady Adelaide

	  		Lady Adelaide by Benjamin Gibbard 

Chorded by Alaina Musich 

This song technically holds a G over the verse.  In practice, it doesn't sound right unless you're  
fingerpicking.  If you'd like your chord to sound more rounded, use a G6 or C back and forth as  
noted. 

When the last word of the verse is sung ("unheard" in Verse I), it has 2 vocal notes.   
The first half of the word is played with a D, then C.  Tried to note within the music. 


NOTE THAT THE G6 (I6 chord) IS CORRECT, BUT C (IV chord) MAY BE SUBSTITUTED IF PREFERRED. 

G6      G     G6         G 
Lady Adelaide shows no emotion 

G6            G           G6     G 
Colder than a wave in the Arctic Ocean 

G6                 G     G5        G 
She waited all her years for those 3 words 

G6                     G 
That never reached her ears 

G6        G       D     C 
They just went unhea----rd 


G6            G      G6      G 
Porcelain and frail, slender shoulders 

G6                G          G6        G 
A breeze of gusty gale could knock her over 

G6                  G           G6       G 
She knew a handsome man who she gave her body 

G6                      G 
But he did not take her hand 

G6                  G     D      C 
And her heart broke softly--------- 

            Am       
Now she's a bird with broken wing 

              C 
She likes the ideas of things 

               G 
More than what they are bound to bring 

     D 
Lady Adelaide 

             Am 
And with her beauty in slow fade 

          C 
She is so fearful the will say 

              G 
That she is a bed that's been unmade 

     D 
Lady Adelaide