Beggar's Prayer chords by
Emiliana Torrini
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Key: Db major

Intro 1

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Verse 1
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Mamma said,
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lift your head from the sieve of your hands.
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Mamma said eventually this hurt
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ing will end.
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But the shockwaves on my
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bones will linger,

Verse 2
Like the ghost of you here in my bed.
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When I was lost you thought me
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Em Em 
 
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a beautiful find.
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Sometimes I think of you sleeping,
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so sleep for a while.
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I find myself asking who'd do this to love,
And the white- shouldered
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mountains they pointed above.

Verse 3
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Lord you just dropped me here
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by the side of this road.
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Out here's too cold and I don't want
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to walk it alone.
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Em Em 
 
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I've got a bottle of your blood inside me,
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And on old beggar's prayer on the tip of my tongue.

Interlude 1

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Verse 4

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Mamma said,

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lift your head from the sieve of your hands.

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Mamma said that eventually

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this hurting will end...

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