Yearling

YEARLING
tabbed by Douglas Thompson (bananaco9@gmail.com)

  Chords Used:
E|--4--|--2--|--0--|------|--2--|--0--|------|-----|
B|--5--|--4--|--2--|------|--2--|--0--|------|-----|
G|--6--|--4--|--2--|------|--2--|--1--|---2--|--7--|
D|--6--|--4--|--2--|---6--|--4--|--2--|---4--|--7--|
A|--4--|--2--|--0--|---7--|--4--|--2--|---1--|--5--|
E|-----|-----|-----|---4--|--2--|--0--|------|-----|
 | C#m |  B  |  A  | A/Ab | F#m |  E  | B/Bb |  D  |


  [Riff 1]
E|----------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------|
D|---9--9--9--9----6--6----1--1--1--1----9--9---|
A|--11-11-11-11----7--7----2--2--2--2---11-11---|
E|-------------------------0-------------0--0---|

  [Riff 2]
E|----------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------|
D|---7 / 9 \ 7----6---4----1--1--1--1----9--9---|
A|---7 / 9 \ 7----7---4----2--2--2--2---11-11---|
E|---5 / 7 \ 5----4---2----0-------------0--0---|


[Riff 1]

C#m            B
I can hear you sleeping
[Riff 2]
Like a softly penned letter
That you plan on keeping

C#m    B     B       C#m
Sound asleep next to me
B         A        A/Ab   F#m
Under the ink of a drying sky


C#m         B
If I were a wordsmith
[Riff 2]
A creative license
To puncture my journals with

C#m     B     B      C#m
I would write of the site
B        A       A/Ab  F#m
Under my green poetic  eye


E
I'm a yearling
A 
A callow school boy
B      B/Bb    C#m
In the eyes of love
         B
A pallid virgin
E
Just a newborn
A
Barely breathing
B      B/Bb    C#m
In the eyes of love
      B
I'm a yearling


[Riff 1]

C#m             B
As I share this pathos
[Riff 2]
The smothering poem 
Breathes in a breath of prose

C#m         B  B    C#m
Breathe you in and again
B        A           A/Ab      F#m
Dizzying features of love rush by


E
Cause I'm a yearling
A
A callow school boy
B      B/Bb    C#m
In the eyes of love
         B
A pallid virgin
E
Just a newborn
A
Barely breathing
B      B/Bb    C#m
In the eyes of love
      B
I'm a yearling


C#m         B
Took from a book of blank verse
C#m              B
From, from these pages I've nursed
C#m  B          D        C#m         
Awakened by the sleeping rhymes of love

A  E  A  E
A  E  A  E


E
Cause I'm a yearling
A
A callow school boy
B      B/Bb    C#m
In the eyes of love
         B
A pallid virgin
E
Just a newborn
A
Barely breathing
B      B/Bb    C#m
In the eyes of love
      B
I'm a yearling


E
Just a new born 
A
Barely breathing
B      B/Bb    C#m
In the eyes of love
      B
I'm a yearling

[Riff 1]