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Poison chords by
Chris James
Chris James

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Intro 1
Em
C

Em
C

Em
C

Verse 1
Em

Mr.

Pugh, in the schoolhouse opposite,

takes up the morning tea to

Mrs.
C

Pugh and whispers
D#dim
Ddim
Em

on the stairs.
A
Asus4

Here's your arsenic, dear,
Em

and your weed -killer biscuit.
G
Em
Am
Em
C
Fm

Bbm

I've rotted your parakeet,
Db
Fm

I've spat in the vases,

I've put cheese in the mouth
Gdim

-holes.
Em

Here's your...

Nice tea, dear.

Too much sugar.
G
C

You haven't tasted it yet, dear.

Too much milk, then.

Admit it,
Em

Jenkins, that it's poetry.

Why, yes, dear.

Then it's time to get up.

Give me my glasses.
G
C

No, not my reading glasses.

I want to look out.
Em
C
Am

I want to see.
G
C

In the blind, drawn,
Fm
Em

dark dining room of

Schoolhouse, dusty and echo
C
Em

ing as a dining room in a vault,

Mr. and

Mrs.
C

Pugh are silent over cold,
Am
Ebdim
Ddim
Em
Am
Em

grainy cottage pie.

Mr.
Am

Pugh reads, as he forks the shroud meat in,
Bb
Fm
G#

from the lives of the great poisoners.
Bb

He has found a plain,
Bbm
Fm
Bb

brown paper cover on the book.
Fm
Em

Slyly, between slow mouthfuls,
G
Am

he sidespies up at

Mrs.
Em

Poole, poisons her with his eye,
A
Asus4

He goes on reading.
Em
Fm

He underlines certain passages and smiles
Db
Bbm
Db
Fm
Ab
Gdim
Em

in secret.
C


Do not read a table,

Mrs.
Em

Pugh.

She swallows a digestive tablet

as big as a horse's
G

Washing it down with clouded
C

pea -soup water.

Some persons were brought

up in pig -styles.
Em

Pigs don't read a table,

Bitterly she flicks dust from the broken court.
C

It settles on the pie in a thin, gnat -wing.
Em

Pigs can't read, my dear.
G
Em
C
D#dim

I know one who can.
G#dim
Ddim
Em


Alone in the hissing laborat
A

ory of his wishes,
Em

Mr.

Pugh minces among bad -bats

and geroborums,
C
Em

tiptoes through spinnies of murdering herbs,
C
Fm
Bbsus4
Fm

agony dancing in his crucibles,

and mixes, especially for

Mrs.

Pugh, the venomous potage
Em

unknown to toxicologists.
Am
Em

She will scald and bite her finger
G

until her ears fall off like figs,
A
Em

Her toes grow big and black as balloons,
Fm
Bbsus4
Fm
Db
Gdim
Em

and steam comes screaming out of her neck.

Mrs.

Pugh smiles.

An icicle forms in the cold

air of the dining vault.

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Chords
  • Em

  • C

  • D#dim

  • Ddim

  • A

  • Asus4

  • G

  • Am

  • Fm

  • Bbm

  • Db

    4
  • Gdim

    5
  • Ebdim

  • Bb

  • G#

    4
  • Ab

    4
  • G#dim

    6
  • Bbsus4

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