Motherland_________________________________________________________
by natalie merchant - album "motherland"
Chords only
Capo on first fret and then play the following chord formations:
Em …
Em Bm
Where in hell can you go
C G
Far from the things that you know
C G D
Far from the sprawl of concrete that keeps crawling its way
D Em
About 1,000 miles a day?
Em Bm
Take one last look behind
C G
Commit this to memory and mind
C G D
Don't miss this wasteland, this terrible place when you leave
D Em
Keep your heart off your sleeve
G D
Motherland cradle me
C G
Close my eyes lullaby me to sleep
C
Keep me safe, lie with me
G D
Stay beside me don’t go
Em
Don't you go
Em Bm
Oh, my five and dime queen,
C G
Tell me what have you seen?
C G D
The lust and the avarice, the bottomless, the cavernous greed
Em
Is that what you see?
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G D
Oh Motherland cradle me
C G
Close my eyes lullaby me to sleep
C
Keep me safe, lie with me
G D
Stay beside me don’t go
C
It's your happiness
G
I want most of all
C Am D
And for that I’d do anything at all
D
Oh mercy me!
C
If you want the best of it
G
Or the most of all
C Am D Em
If there's anything I can do at all
(instrumental with verse riff)
Em Bm
Now come on shot gun bride
C G
What makes me envy your life?
C G D
Faceless, nameless, innocent, blameless and free
Em
What's that like to be?
G D
Oh Motherland cradle me
C G
Close my eyes lullaby me to sleep
C
Keep me safe, lie with me
G D
Stay beside me don’t go
D
Don't go
G D
Motherland cradle me
C G
Close my eyes lullaby me to sleep
C
Keep me safe, lie with me
G D
Stay beside me don’t go
D
Don't go
