Songbook

Effigy

By Andrew Bird

Key of D

D                 G
If you come to find me affable
           D        A
Build a replica for me
            D              G
Would the idea to you be laughable
      D           A
Of a pale facsimile
              D               G
So when you come to burn an effigy
          D               A
It should keep the flies away
             D                 G
And when you learn to burn this effigy
                       D               A         Bm    E    Em    A    (F#)
It should be for the hours that slip away, slip away

G            D               A
It could be you, it could be me
            Em                   G
Working the door, drinking for free
         Bm                    F#
Carrying on with your conspiracies
            G                      G
Filling the room with a sense of unease
           A                       D      B
Fake conversations on a nonexistent telephone
G                    A                               D       B
Like the words of a man who's spent a little too much time alone
      Em                     A
When one has spent too much time alone

Interlude: D G D A x2

D                G
So when you come to burn an effigy
            D              A
It should keep the flies away
          D              G
If you long to burn an effigy
                   D                      A          Bm    E    Em    A    (F#)
It should be of a man whose has lost his way, slips away

G           D                A
It could be you, it could be me
            Em                   G
Working the door, drinking for free
         Bm                    F#
Carrying on with your conspiracies
            G                      G
Filling the room with a sense of unease
           A                       D     B
Fake conversations on a nonexistent telephone
           G                    A                       D          B
Like the words of a man who's spent a little too much time all alone
     Em                      A
When one has spent too much time alone

G Bm A G
G Bm F# G
G Bm A G
G Bm F# G

G A D