Sugar Tongue -- Indigo Girls Tabbed by Travis: mr_flycstr@yahoo.com
Chords: (T = 10th fret)
Gm=355333 Am=577555 Dm=x57765 C=x35553 F=x8TTT8
C*=8TT988 Bb=688766 F*=133211
Intro: Gm, Am, Dm, Dm x2 (play open 5th string between each Dm)
Gm Am Dm Dm
All the fur and fin will lose again
Gm Am Dm Dm
Cause our better is their worst reckonin'
Gm C Dm (hold)
And our fine-feathered friends will sing until they bleed
Gm Am Dm Dm
And how will we replace that symphony?
F C*
I've got the blackest boots, the whitest skin
Bb C*
Satisfy my sugar tongue again
F C*
Sing me lullabies of shoe-shine days
Bb C*
Guilded verses for your ethylene
F Am Bb-Am-Gm-C-Dm
And sing ‘em to me free and clean
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All the kids come home with foreign limbs Gm, Am, Dm, Dm
From hunting trips abroad they lose again Gm, Am, Dm, Dm
Gm C F* (hold) Bb Am-Bb
And we'll teach them how to talk and whistle while they walk
And do the dirty work of battle hymns Gm, Am, Dm Dm
I've got the blackest boots, the whitest skin F, C*
Satisfy my sugar tongue again Bb, C*
Sing me lullabies of shoe-shine days F, C*
Guilded verses for your ethylene Bb, C*
And sing it to me free and clean F, Am (to Gm)
Instrumental over intro chords
Drinking tea with milk and ganjaweed Gm, Am, Dm, Dm
Pontificate on genocide or greed Gm, Am, Dm, Dm
With a spoonful of descent for the orchestra of need Gm, C, Dm (hold)
Is just enough to please this colony Gm, Am, Dm, Dm
I've got the blackest boots, the whitest skin F, C*
Satisfy my sugar tongue again Bb, C*
Bring me lullabies and morphine-dreams F, C*
Belladonna with her atropine Bb, C*
And sing it to me free and clean F, Am, Bb-Am-Gm-C-Dm
