Poison chords by 
Chris James 
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Key: E minor•
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 an d whispers
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Ddim
Em
on the stairs.
A
Asus4
Here's your ar senic, 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 din ing 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 pois oners.
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 read ing.
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 balloon s,
Fm
Bbsus4
Fm
Db
Gdim
Em
and steam comes screaming out of her neck.
Mrs.
Pugh smiles.
An icicle form s in the cold
air of the dining vault.
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C
D#dim
Ddim
A
Asus4
G
Am
Fm
Bbm
Db
Gdim
Ebdim
Bb
G#
Ab
G#dim
Bbsus4
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