Sweet Lorraine Chords

Artist: Patty Griffin
Album: Living with Ghosts
 
 
CAPO 3RD
 
G - 320033              Dsus4 - x00233
C9 - 032030             Am -    002210
D - 000232              C - 003210
 
[Intro]
Dsus4  G  C9  D       Dsus4  G  C9  D
 
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Sweet Lor raine the        fiery head         brown eyed schemer
 
who         came from a    long line of      drinkers and dreamers
 
who         knew that       sunshine don?t   hold up to dark
 
whose      businesses      fail who            sleep in the park
 
Lor          raine who       spoke of           paintings in Paris
 
and          outlandish      things to her     family just to scare us
 
whose      heart went      pokin? where     it shouldn?t ought
 
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whose mother could only, spit at the thought
 
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Lorraine, sweet Lorraine
 
 
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Her          father would    tear out like a   page of the Bible
 
then he?d  burn down the  house to       announce his arrival
 
her           mother was     working and     never was home
 
Lor          raine carved    out a little        life of her own
 
 
 
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Lor      raine started working, Lorraine went to   school
 
her       mother threw stones         at her on the   day that she moved
 
now     isn?t that a                       very strange    thing to do
 
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for someone who never really wanted you
 
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Lorraine, sweet Lorraine
 
 
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Her daddy called her a slut and a whore
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on the night before her wedding day
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the very next morning, at the church
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her daddy gave, Lorraine away, Lorraine away
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Lorraine, sweet Lorraine
 
 
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In the       battle of         time, in the             battle of will
 
it?s          only your        hope and your         heart that gets killed
 
and it?s     harder and     harder Lorraine, to      believe in magic
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when        what came      before you was        so very tragic
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Lorraine, sweet Lorraine
 
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Sweet Lorraine
 
----repeats, fades out on D
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