Motherland Chords

Song: Motherland
Artist: Natalie Merchant
Capo: 1st fret
Tuning: standard
 
How to play: first hit lowest bass-string you should play on the chord, then the
chord completely twice. Just listen to the track, it's really easy.
 
 
[Intro]
 
Em
 
 
[Verse 1]
 
Em                     Bm  C                            G
Where in hell can you go, far from the things that you know,
C                          G                              D
Far from this sprawl of concrete that keeps crawling its way,
                       Em
'Bout a thousand miles a day.
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
Em                    Bm      C                       G
Take one last look behind, commit this to memory and mind,
C                               G                         D
Don't miss this wasteland, this terrible place, when you leave,
                         Em
Keep your heart off your sleeve.
 
 
[Chorus]
 
      G           D            C                    G
Motherland cradle me, close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep,
         C                G                       D             Em
Keep me safe, lie with me - stay beside me, don't go, don't you go
 
 
[Verse 3]
 
Em                   Bm    C                       G
Oh, my five and dime queen, 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?
 
 
[Chorus]
          G           D            C                    G
Oh, Motherland cradle me, close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep,
         C                G                       D
Keep me safe, lie with me - stay beside me, don't go
 
 
[Bridge]
 
          C                  G
It's your happiness - I want most of all
        C           A7          D
And for that I'd do anything at all, oh mercy me.
                C                 G
If you want the best of it or the most of all,
           C        A7          D
If there's anything I can do at all.
 
 
[Instrumental Verse]
 
Em  Bm  C  G
C   G   D  D
Em  Em
 
 
[Verse 4]
 
Em                    Bm    C                        G
Now, come on shotgun bride, what makes me envy your life,
    C                           G                            D
The faceless, the nameless, the innocent, the blameless and free,
                 Em
What's that like to be?
 
 
[Chorus]
 
          G           D            C                    G
Oh, Motherland cradle me, close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep,
         C                G                      D
Keep me safe, lie with me - stay beside me don't go, don't go
      G           D            C                    G
Motherland cradle me, close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep,
         C                G                  D            D      D     Em
Keep me safe, lie with me - stay beside me, don't go, don't go...
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