JARS OF CLAY - "Overjoyed" Tablature

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Author/Artist: Jars of Clay
Title: Overjoyed
Album: Much Afraid
Transcribed by: Brian Germer<JOCGT@yahoo.com>

This is in standard tuning with a 12-String and an electric. I saw them live
in Portland, so this is pretty accurate.

12-String intro:

--------0--0--0-x----0----0----||-----0---0--0-0-0----0--0--0-||-----0--------
--6-----6--6--6-x----3----3----||-----1---1--1-1/3----3--3--3-||-----5--------
--5-----5--5--5-x----0----0----||-----2---2--2-2/4----4--4--4-||-----4--------
--0-----0--0--0-x----5----5----||-----3---3--3-3/5----5--5--5-||-----0--------
-------------------------------||-----------------------------||--------------
-------------------------------||-----------------------------||-----4--------
Play three times then... ** E7/G#

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------7b8r7-----------------------------------------------------------
----6--7--9-----------9--7--6-7-6v-----6--7--9--------------------------------
------------------------------------------------9--7--9b10r9-7--5-5/7---------
------------------------------------------------------------------------4v----
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Solo: v= vibrato b= bend r= return h= hammer-on p= pull-off

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------8b10r8----------------------------------------------------------
----6--7--9-----------9--7--6h7--------5h7---7b9r7-5---7b9r7-5----------------
----------------------------------5h7-----------------------------7p5--7------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(w/intro)
You name me
Who am I
That I should company with something so divine?
Mercy waits, Overjoyed
Prospect of finding, freeing
F G A
Freeing me

Chorus:
(A) Cadd9 G A
Love is the thing this time I'm sure
F G A
And I couldn't need you more now
Cadd9 G F
The way that you saw things were so pure
G E7/G#** (see in tab)
Overjoyed

(Same as first verse)
You name me
Entertain
Thoughts of peace can overcome anything
Mirror spins
Wicked tales
Here lies reflections of
Deceptions of

[Chorus]

F#m/C# Bm
Missing the me from you you gave to me
F#m/C# Bm
I don't like the one I have created today
Em7 G
Crossing nameless from the one I've earned
F#m/C# Bm G
To be the one, the one you gave to me

Solo (over Chorus)

(w/12- String intro)
You name me
Name Me
Finding, freeing me

[Chorus x 2]
F G F E7/G#
Overjoyed, Overjoyed

Words by Dan Haseltine
Music by Matt Odmark, Charlie Lowell, Steve Mason, Mark Hudson, Greg Wells
Copyright 1997 BridgeBuilding Music (BMI)/Pogostick Music (BMI)/Irving Music (BMI)/
Greg Wells Music (BMI)/ Beef Puppet Music (ASCAP). All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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