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Song title:      Sooner Surrender
Original Album:  Some Mad Hope

Words and Music by Matt Nathanson
Copyright © 2007 Vanguard Records and Acrobat Records
Published by Matt Nathanson

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Capo on 1. Chords are relative to capo position. Timing is 4/4.


INTRO:

  Am                                                   
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-1---0--------------------------|-1---0--------------------------|
|---------2---0-------0----------|---------2---0-------0----------|
|-----------------2--------------|-----------------2--------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-------------------------3\-----|-------------------------3------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|

  G                                D/F#
|-3-----------3-------3-------3--|-2-----------2-------2-------2--|
|-3-----------3-------3-------3--|-3-----------3-------3-------3--|
|-0-----------0-------0-------0--|-2-----------2-------2-------2--|
|-0-----------0-------0-------0--|-0-----------0-------0-------0--|
|-2------------------------------|-x------------------------------|
|-3------------------------------|-2------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


VERSE:
Notes:
The VERSE chords follow the pattern in the INTRO figure.

Chords:
Am    x02210
G     320033
D/F#  2x0232

Am                                           G       D/F#
  In the party love, some man's playing Hallelujah...Hallelujah...
Am                                                   G             D/F#
  In the corner love, all night girls drink wine and try, to sing along...
Am                                                        G        D/F#
  I made a mess of things, the stops and inbetweens, they weigh me down...
Am                                            G    D/F#  
  You got someone new, singing you your songs now...


CHORUS:
Chords:
G     320033    D/F#  2x0232
Asus4 x02233    Cadd9 x32033

G           Asus4   G                     D/F#
  Sooner surrender,   than watch the last wall collapse.
G               Asus4   G         D/F#                 Cadd9
  I'd sooner surrender,   and our love would count for everything...


[play INTRO figure]


VERSE:
Chords:
Am    x02210
G     320033
D/F#  2x0232

Am                                                G        D/F# 
  In my sweetest dreams it's just you and me, and we break wide.
Am                                   
  I wake reminded love, of how I just gave up,
    G                 D/F#          
And how you moved on, how you moved on...
    Am
I'm waiting for something, I've waited for now, 
        G       D/F#       Am
For the rolling canyons of love.
                               G             D/F#
And I'm tongue-tied and you're coming alive, coming alive...


[repeat CHORUS]


BRIDGE:
Chords:
Am    x02210    D/F#  2x0232
G     320033    C     x32010

Am                      G        D/F#              Am
  I'm sorry that you're gone, so sorry that you've gone
                      G     D/F#
I'm sorry that you've gone, ohhh.
Am                      G        D/F#              Am
  I'm sorry that you've gone, so sorry that you've gone away...
C                     G
  You're a little bit right..
C                        G              C
  More than a little bit right, with my arms around you...


[repeat CHORUS]  [x2]

G         D/F#                 C
  And our love would count for everything...
G       D/F#               C
  And I miss when you were everything...