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Alternative, maybe easier, version:
  • Transpose the chords 4 half steps down [ -4 ]
  • Put a capo on fret 4 to stay in the same key

UKULELE CHORDS

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Intro: B

Verse:
B      Dbm     Ebm      E 
  You are  my sweetest down-fall
E    Gb         Abm        Gb           E 
  I loved you first,      I loved you first
E                B        Dbm     Ebm       E   E
  Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth
    Gb      Abm     Gb          E
  I have to go, I have to go
                      E               E -  E 
  Your hair was long,  when we first met

Chorus:
  Gb        Abm         B
  Sam - son  went back to bed
  B                  E
  Not much hair left on his head
      Gb    Abm      B                     B           Gb
  He ate a slice of wonder bread and went right back to bed
         Gb    Abm       B                    B              E         
  And history books for-got about us and the bible didn't mention us
            B     Gb     Abm                         
  And the bi-ble didn't mention us, not
E  - E
 even once

Verse:
B      Dbm     Ebm      E 
  You are my sweetest downfall
E    Gb         Abm        Gb           E 
  I loved you first, I loved you first
E                B        Dbm     Ebm       E   E
  Beneath the stars came fallin' on our heads
    Gb      Abm     Gb          E
  But they're just old light, they're just old light
                      E               E -  E 
  Your hair was long when we first met

Chorus: 
Gb        Abm         B
  Sam - son came to my bed
  B                  E
  Told me that my hair was red
  Gb    Abm      B                     B           Gb
  Told me I was beautiful and came into my bed
  Gb    Abm      B                     B           
  Oh I cut his hair my - self one night
     B                             E
  A pair of dull scissors in the yellow light
          E                B
  And he told me that I'd done alright
          B      Gb       Abm                E
  and kissed me 'til   the mornin' light, the mornin' light
            B      Gb       Abm
  and he kissed me 'til   the mornin' light

Outro:
  Gb        Abm         B
  Sam - son went back to bed
  B                  E
  not much hair left on his head
  Gb    Abm      B                     B           Gb
  Ate a slice of wonderbread and went right back to bed
  Gb    Abm      B                     B           
  Oh, we couldn't bring the columns down
     B                             E
  Yeah we couldn't destroy a single one
          E                B
  And history books forgot about us
          B      Gb       Abm                E
  And the bible  didn't  mention us, not even once....

Chorus: 
B      Dbm     Ebm      E 
  You are  my sweetest downfall
E    Gb         Abm                  
I   loved  you    first    
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Biography

Regina Spektor (born Regina Ilyinichna Spektor on 18 February 1980 in Moscow) is a Russian-born American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered on New York City’s East Village.

Spektor studied classical piano from the age of six, practising on a Petrof piano given to her mother by her grandfather. She was also exposed to the music of rock and roll bands such as The Beatles, Queen, and The Moody Blues by her father

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