Key: E minor•
Verse 1
like first foot coal
C
Em
and poison- pen letters
A
Em
There is a hungry hanging tree
Am
D
Just below your bedroom window
You can hear her take a broom
Em
C
Am
D
To beat out a tattoo on the ceiling
Am
Em
Her bloodless face ran red inside
C
Em
Was she only pantomime?
A
F#m
Em
C
Baug
Em
C
A
F#m
Verse 2
G
D#dim
Em
Now the chalk on the wall
G
Em
D
Washed off the pavement
G
Em
D
Will be poisoned by rain
G
Em
D
As confetti bled its colours down
C
Csus4
the drain
C
And every
Verse 3
F
C
Am
day she lives out
Bb
Gm
F
another love song
Dm
C
Am
It's a tearful lament of
Bb
Gm
F
somebody done wrong
Bb
Gm
you've never possessed
Interlude 1
Miss Macbeth?
Gm
G
Em
A
F#m
Em
C
Am
Baug
Em
A
F#m
G
Baug
Em
Verse 4
their fairytales
G
Em
D
Sprinkling deadly nightshade
G
Em
D
She rose to the bait
G
Em
D
C
Csus4
Must have someone to hate
Verse 5
F
C
Am
day she lives out
Bb
F
another love song
Dm
C
Am
"You're up there enjoying yourself,
Bb
Gm
and I know it's wrong"
F
Dm
C
But how can you miss what
Bb
Gm
you've never possessed
C
Bb
Miss Macbeth?
Verse 6
G
Baug
Sometimes people are just
F
Dm
what they appear to be
G
Baug
With no redemption at all
Am
Baug
Am
We try to walk upright
Em
Verse 7
D
Am
Am
A
And she whispers to it tenderly
Am
G
Em
D
Then sticks it on a pin
G
Em
D
But a boy down the lane
G
Em
D
C
Then doubled over in pain
Verse 8
F
Dm
C
Am
And everyday she lives out
Bb
Gm
F
another love song
Dm
C
Am
It's a tearful lament of
Bb
Gm
somebody done wrong
Bb
F
Dm
C
Am
And how can you miss what
Bb
Gm
you've never possessed
Outro 1
Bb
C
Bb
G
C
A
Em
C
B
C
A
G
B
Em
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