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Burning Herself chords by
Harry Chapin
Harry Chapin

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Intro 1
Am
D
F
Am

Verse 1
Am

She was crazy

(she was beautiful),
E

I guess she had to be.
Am
E

I was angry (you were blind),

Because I could not see.
Dm

I saw only what her cigarettes
Am

had done to her skin.
G

I should have known the outside world
C
F

Would reveal what was within.
Am

She was burning herself,

And her hair was filled with ashes.

She was burning herself,

And her life becomes a flame.

She was burning herself,
D

And the flame became her passion.
Am
D
Am
F
Am
F

She was burning her self,

And her passion,
Am
D
F
G
Am

Her passion was her pain.

She was trusting (you could

have saved her too),
E

All hope had passed for her.
Am

I was lusting (and she gave to you),
E

That's all I asked for her.
Dm

The marks upon her body
Am

And the marks upon her mind.
G

I could have erased them
C
F
Am
C
Am

If I'd only taken the time.
D
Am
F
Am
D

F
G
Am
G
Am

E

I never saw her do it,
Am

I only saw the scars.

I never could imagine

What would make her go that far.
G

I wondered,

Was she driven by desperate

need to feel,
Am

To find out she was living,

To discover life was real.
D

Or was it that the pain

Slicing through her like a knife
E

Was easier to take

Than the emptiness of life?
F

Had a strange sense of drama

Caught her in a role,
G

Or was she trying to cauterize
E

The chancres on her sole?

I don't know

I don't know
Outro 1

I don't know
Am
D
F
F

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  • F

  • E

  • Dm

  • G

  • C

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