Before The Eyes Of Storytelling Girls chords by Anaïs Mitchell
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Intro 1
(A minor) (F major) (A minor)
(F major) (A minor) (F major) (A minor) (G major)
(A minor)
Verse 1
I could tell you stories like the (D minor)
government tells (A minor) lies
Oh, but no one listens any (F major) more
In the (A minor) rooms the women come and go
(D minor) Talking on the mo (A minor) bile phones
And the television (G major) talks about the war
(A minor)
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Verse 2
When I was a baby there was
laughter (D minor) in my house (A minor)
And my daddy smoked
domestic ci (F major) garettes
(A minor) Thursday nights on the radio
live in concert
Live from (C major) Cairo, (G major) mother of Egypt (F major)
Mama, (G major) mama
(F major) Be with (G major) me
With the mu (F major) sic in your breast (A minor)
In your (F major) glittering evening (A minor) dress
And the (F major) white flag in your (A minor) fist trembling
(G major) (A minor)
Interlude 1
(F major) (A minor)
(F major) (A minor) (F major) (A minor) (G major)
(A minor)
Verse 3
I could tell you stories like the (D minor)
past was dead an (A minor) d gone
But I know nothing changes in this world (F major)
(A minor) Every day the muezzin calls
Sun (D minor) comes up and Baghdad (A minor) falls
Before the eye (G major) s of storytelling (F major) girls
(A minor) She was just a (D minor) poor man's daughter (A minor)
Going down in (G major) to the sultan's
(F major) bed (D minor) (A minor)
He was desert, (D minor) she was (G major) a wa (A minor) ter
And (C major) he remembered (G major) every word she said
(F major) She said and I say
(A minor) Grandma, grand (G major) ma
(F major) Be with (G major) me
In your (F major) tragic wedding gown (A minor)
With your (F major) long hair hanging (A minor)
down
And the stories (F major) tumbling (A minor) out
Interlude 2
Tumbling
(G major) (A minor) (F major) (A minor) (G major)
(A minor)
Verse 4
I could tell you stories like the (D minor)
government tells (A minor) lies
Oh, but no one listens any (F major) more
In the (A minor) rooms the women come and go
(D minor) Talking on the mo (A minor) bile phones
And the (C major) television (G major) talks about the war (A minor)
About the war
And the tele (C major) vision (G major) talks about the war
Before The Eyes Of Storytelling Girls
Anaïs Mitchell
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