Dog Days Are Over Uke tab by Florence And The Machine

4 Chords used in the song: G, Am, Em, C

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Album: 
Year:  2009
Difficulty: 
2.5
(Beginner)
Key: C, G, Am, EmChords
(Intro) - single down strums
G (20 counts)
Am Am (4 counts) Em Em (8 counts)

(Verse) - same strums pattern as intro
G G G G Am Am Em Em
Happiness hit her like a train on a track
G G G G Am Am Em Em
Coming towards her stuck still no turning back

G G - half time down strums (on even beats)
She hid around corners and she hid under beds
Am Am Em Em
She killed it with kisses and from it she fled
G G
With every bubble she sank with a drink
Am Am Em Em
And washed it away down the kitchen sink


(Pre-chorus) - still half time down strums
G G
The dog days are over
G G
The dog days are done
Am Am Em Em (2 strums, then double time 4 strums)
The horses are coming so you better run


(Chorus) - down, knock knock
G G G G
Run fast for your mother run fast for your father
G G G G
Run for your children for your sisters and brothers
G G Am Am
Leave all your love and your loving behind you
Em Em Em Em
Can't carry it with you if you want to survive

G G G G
The dog days are over
G G G G
The dog days are done
G G Am Am Em Em Em Em G G (single strum)
Can you hear the horses cuz here they come


(Bridge) - single strum
G G G G G G Am Am Em Em
And I never wanted anything from you
G G G G
Except everything you had
G G Am Am Em Em
And what was left after that too oh


(Verse) - same strumming pattern as intro
G G G G Am Am Em Em
Happiness hit her like a bullet in the back
G G
Stuck from a great height
G G Am Am Em Em
By someone who should've know better than that


(Pre-chorus) - strum, knock knock
G G G G
The dog days are over
G G G G
The dog days are gone
G G Am Am
Can you hear the horses
Em Em Em Em
Cuz here they come

G G - strum, knock knock (7 times)

(Chorus) - same strumming pattern as intro
G G
Run fast for your mother and fast for your father
G G
Run for your children for your sisters and brothers
Am Am
Leave all your love and your loving behind you
Em Em
Can't carry it with you if you want to survive

G G G G
The dog days are over
G G G G
The dog days are gone
G G Am Am
Can you hear the horses
Em Em Em Em
Cuz here they come

(back to strum, knock knock)
G G G G
The dog days are over
G G G G
The dog days are gone
G G Am Am
The horses are coming
Em Em C C
So you better run

G G G G
The dog days are over
G G G G
The dog days are gone
G G Am Am
The horses are coming
Em Em C C G G G G
So you better run

G (down single strum 20 counts)
Am Am (4 counts) Em Em (1 count)

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About this song: Dog Days Are Over

According to the Dog Days Are Over Songfacts, this paean to the inevitability of happiness was inspired by a giant text installation titled "Dog Days Are Over" by artist Ugo Rondinone, which Florence used to see every day riding her bike over Waterloo Bridge. Read more on Last.fm.

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