A Maid's Prayer chords by Nellie Lutcher
Verse 1
Em
G
While I lay me down to sleep,
D
G
I worked through the worst day.
Em
G
C
If I should die before I awake,
G
D
G
Em
D
would I still be a maid?
Em
D
G
Would I still have to rise each day,
C
D
G
while others lay in bed,
C
G
and put an apron over my
and make the holy bread.
Em
G
D
Would I have to wash and iron
G
Em
the angels' dirty clothes?
C
D
Would I have to clean
G
and scrub
Em
B
the heavens' floors?
Em
G
And would I have to dump the garbage
C
G
an d all the other slop?
D
Or when I cross the river Jordan,
C
G
would such filthy duties stop?
Might I go to a movie
D
when I have my Thursdays out?
G
C
Or will I have to polish stars
G
C
and help to hang them out?
G
Are there any streetcars
C
that go a certain route?
G
Em
Or will there be a chariot
G
C
D
G
to carry me about?
D
C
I know I would be discouraged,
G
and I know I would be dismayed
if I should be a maid in heaven
and still be underpaid.
D
G
Now, one very important thing,
very important,
when I have a sweetheart,
when I find him most divine?
C
Will we sometimes walk together
D
C
with his arms in mine entwined?
G
Could we ever free ourselves
Em
C
Gdim
of those beautiful white wings?
C
G
Or would our love affair
be just one of those broth
D
G
erly love things?
C
G
I'm a little bit worried about that.
Yes I am just a little worried
G
about that one thing.
Oh well, how stupid can
you get anyway here
D
I am not the least bit sick
and not the least bit tired
D
G
D
of this great big beautiful world
worrying about what would happen
D
should I not wake up
C
C
ah it's stupid isn't it oh me folks
G
I'll stop worrying right this minute
this very minute
C
Bm
and remain a Very much, much alive,
D
Am
D
G
robust it's made.
A Maid's Prayer
Nellie Lutcher
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