Chords for Donovan, Shawn Phillips - Guinevere

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Shon, will you explain a little bit to Reverend Davis here how this sitar works?
He's very curious about it.
Well, it's, I think it's_
Hold it up close, I can feel it.
It's an instrument of all instruments, I think, because you play your own lead,
and it plays its [Bm] own melody, and you can [C] feel underneath these top strings,
[B] there's eleven what they call drone, or resonator strings.
[D] And these, they vibrate in sympathetic vibration.
_ _ [F] Every time you get the dominant [G#] tone, these strings over here,
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all sound by themselves.
_ And [D#] the way you tune it is you just, you tune it to whatever tune you happen to be playing at the time.
It's like a bank pipe, you gotta [G#] be in one key.
And _ the frets are movable, so you can set up either [N] a five-tone eastern scale,
or a twelve-tone western scale.
I'll be done.
Whichever you prefer.
_ We have time for another song.
Donovan, did you do one with a sitar?
_ Yeah, this is the one we _ [C#] worked out with a sitar. _
_ [D] Very tender piece, got nice melons going on here.
_ [C#] _ _ [C] Queen gonna do it, here we come.
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When [F#m] you're on the royal _ _ [F#]
court of [C#] offer _ _ _ _ _
Dragged [F#] in like a velvet _ [B] _
circus [C#] _ _ lane
_ The ruffles [F#m] of a gown [B] on the marble _
[C#] _ _ staircase _ _ _ _
Sparkles [G#] of fingers _ slender [C#] and pale
_ _ _ The jester he sleeps [C#m] with the raven [F#m] he peeps
[C#] Through the dark [F#m] foreboding skies [B] would avoid [F#] me _ [C#] shying
_ _ _ _ _ _ Muddled [F#m] colored wine [B] from the [F#] vineyards of [C#] Chardin
_ _ _ _ _ Is sipped by [F#m] the queen's lips [B] and so [F#m]
gently
[C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Indigo [F#m] eyes in [B] the [F#] flickering _
_ [C#] _ candlelight
_ _ Such is [F#m] the silence [B] of a royal _ [C#]
camelot _ lane
_ The _ jester he sleeps with [C#m] the raven [F#m] he peeps
[C#] Through the dark foreboding [F#]
skies would [B] avoid me _ _ _ shying
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_ _ [B] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
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[C#] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [F#] _
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When _ you're on [F#] the [B] royal _ [C#] court of offer _ _ _
_ _ Dragged in like [F#m] a [B] velvet circus _ [C#] _ _ lane _
The sound of a gown on [G#m] the [F#m] marble _ [C#] staircase _ _ _
_ _ Sparkles of fingers [B] both slender [C#] and pale
_ The _ _ _ jester he sleeps with the raven [F#m] he peeps
[A#m] Through the dark [F#m] foreboding skies would [B] avoid me
The [C#] _
_ _ _ _ _ jester [D#] _
_ _ _ he _ _ _ _ _ _ sleeps [N] with the raven he peeps
_ Through _ _ _ the dark foreboding skies would avoid me
The jester _ he sleeps with _ the raven he peeps
Through the dark foreboding skies would avoid [A#] me
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