Elevator Operator Acordes

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Song: Elevator Operator
 
Artist: Courtney Barnett
 
Album: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (2015)
 
Buy on ITunes!: http://po.st/sometimesisit
 
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa0UT2RPVRBWsY2t9txNPKg
 
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Capo on 4th fret
 
*This is not a simplified version or something like that, Courtney plays the song like this!*
 
Chords:
 
E      : 02210x
A      : x0222x
F#m7/9 : 20210x
G      : 32000x
A*     : xx7650
G6     : xx5430
 
Wait! Maybe you don't have a capo and you want to play this song (That happened to me).
 
Chords without capo:
 
E      = G# : 46654x
A      = C#: x4666x
F#m7/9 = A#m7/9: 64654x
G      = B : x2444x or 76444x
A*     = C#*: xxx664
G6     = B: xxx442
 
Also, Courtney plays this songs differently from other because in this song she uses a pick
(I recommend using from 0.5 mm picks to 1.0 mm for a more direct and rough sound of the song)
 
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E
  Oliver Paul, twenty years old
 
A
Thick head of hair, worries he's going bald
 
E
  Wakes up at quarter past nine
 
A
Fair evades his way down the 96 tram line
 
E
Breakfast on the run again, he's well aware
 
     A                                        E       A E A
He's dropping soy linseed Vegemite crumbs everywhere
 
E
  Feeling sick at the sight of his computer
 
   A
He dodges his way through the Swanston commuters
 
E
Rips off his tie, hands it to a homeless man
 
A                                                   E
Sleeping in the corner of a metro bus stand and he screams
 
 
"I'm not going to work today
 
          A
Going to count the minutes that the trains run late
 
E                                                      A  E F#m7/9 G A
  Sit on the grass building pyramids out of Coke cans"
 
E
Headphone wielding to the Nicholas building
 
   A
He trips on a pothole that's not been filled in
 
  E
He waits for an elevator, one to nine
 
  A
A lady walks in and waits by his side
 
   E
Her heels are high and her bag is snakeskin
 
A
Hair pulled so tight you can see her skeleton
 
E
Vickers perfume on her breath
 
  A
A tortoise shell necklace between her breasts
 
             E
She looks him up and down with a botox frown
 
     A
He's well used to that look by now
 
    E        F#m7/9         G          A
The elevator dings and they awkwardly step in
 
      E      F#m7/9         G       A
Their fingers touch on the rooftop button
 
       E                      A*                 G6
Don't jump little boy, don't jump off that roof
 
                 E                               A*                  G6
You've got your whole life ahead of you, you're still in your youth
 
E                          A*            G6  E A* G6
I'd give anything to have skin like you
 
         E
He said "I think you're projecting the way that you're feeling
 
    A
I'm not suicidal, just idling insignificantly
 
   E
I come up here for perception and clarity
 
   A
I like to imagine I'm playing SimCity
 
         E              F#m7/9         G   A
All the people look like ants from up here
 
         E               F#m7/9          G    A
And the wind's the only traffic you can hear"
 
          E   F#m7/9        G     A
He said "All I ever wanted to be
 
        E      F#m7/9          G          A
Was an elevator operator, can you help me please?"
 
       E                      A*                 G6
Don't jump little boy, don't jump off that roof
 
                 E                               A*                  G6
You've got your whole life ahead of you, you're still in your youth
 
E                          A*            G6 E A* G6
I'd give anything to have skin like you
 
       E                      A*                 G6
Don't jump little boy, don't jump off that roof
 
                  E                              A*                  G6
You've got your whole life ahead of you, you're still in your youth
 
E                          A*            G6 E A* G6
I'd give anything to have skin like you
 
E F#m7/9 G A
 
E F#m7/9 G A
 
E F#m7/9 G A
 
E F#m7/9 G A
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