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Song title:      All The Rowboats
Original Album:  What We Saw From The Cheap Seats

Words and Music by Regina Spektor
Copyright © 2012 Sire Records
Published by Warner Music Group

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
The same sequence (Cm - Cm/G - G#) is repeated for every verse.


INTRO:
Chords:
Cm   x35543
G#   466544

[play: | Cm | G# |]  [x2]


VERSE1:
Notes:
The bass line played by the piano is C-G-G#-F.
To emulate this for solo guitar, you could play the chords I've indicated.

The G#add6 is a suggestion that could be omitted, however.
F is the 6th in the key of G# but it's difficult to fret F in the bass when
voicing G#. I just added it to the chord (but not in the bass).

Chords:
Cm   x35543    G#      466544
Cm/G 335543    G#add6  464564


Cm                 Cm/G
  All the rowboats      in the paintings
G#                   (G#add6)
  They keep trying to row    away
Cm                 Cm/G
  And the captains'     worried faces
G#
  Stay contorted and staring at the waves
Cm                     Cm/G
  They'll keep hanging      in their gold frames
G#
  For forever, forever and a day

Cm
  All the rowboats in oil paintings
G#
  They keep trying to row away, row away


VERSE2:
Hear them whispering French and German
Dutch, Italian, and Latin
When no one's looking I touch a sculpture
Marble, cold, and soft as satin
But the most special are the most lonely
God, I pity the violins
In glass coffins they keep coughing
They've forgotten, forgotten how to sing, how to sing


[Interlude over VERSE chords]


VERSE3:
First there's lights out, then there's lock up
Masterpieces serving maximum sentences
It's their own fault for being timeless
There's a price to pay and a consequence
All the galleries, the museums
Here's your ticket, welcome to the tombs
They're just public mausoleums
The living dead fill every room


VERSE4
But the most special are the most lonely
God, I pity the violins
In glass coffins they keep coughing
They've forgotten, forgotten how to sing
They will stay there in their gold frames
For forever, forever and a day
All the rowboats in oil paintings
They keep trying to row away, row away


[Interlude over VERSE chords]


VERSE4:
First there's lights out, then there's lock up
Masterpieces serving maximum sentences
It's their own fault for being timeless
There's a price to pay and a consequence
All the galleries, the museums
They will stay there forever and a day
All the rowboats in the oil paintings
They keep trying to row away, row away

All the rowboats in oil paintings
They keep trying to row away, row away