Striking Matches chords by 
Brian Wright 
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Key: D major•
Verse 1
D
I stood there striking matches
and you stood there starting trouble
Said I was born just south of Natchez
and you said I was lucky
Bm
D
To have met you in the summer
Bm
D
or to have been born at all
G
And you'd never turn your back
D
on my good night
G
And I was striking conversa tions,
D
G
you said don't go to the trouble
D
G
And you ordered up a vision,
D
G
and I said I'd have a double
Bm
D
When you talk I cannot listen,
Bm
D
and your words rise with a sorrow
G
D
And tomorrow I'll no more see you again
G
You were a striking beauty
D
G
standing under your umbrella
D
G
And the noose that held your father
D
is still hanging in the cellar
G
Bm
D
Well, you asked me to re move it,
Bm
D
but it turned out I was yellow
G
D
And you never asked a thing of me again
G
And now you're tak ing matches
D
G
to a box of my old letters
D
G
And you watch the city burning
D
And you say you know me better
G
Bm
D
than the best of my con victions
Bm
D
In the prison of my heart
G
And you'd never turn your back
D
G
A
D
G
on my good night
D
G
D
A
D
G
D
G
D
G
D
G
D
You crucified my name
You orchestrated my collision
A
G
With a mouth full of the same old,
Bm
D
same old super stition
Always swirling round my brain
With a black cat and a thousand
G
D
broken mirror s
G
D
And even now I still think I can hear her
I guess I'm just like my mama, she said.
She waited for my daddy
till my daddy was dead.
I guess I'm just like my mama, she said.
She waited for my daddy
till my daddy was dead.
I guess I'm just like my mama,
she said.
You can wait around forever,
or at least till you're dead.
I guess I'm just like my mama, she said
I'll wait around forever,
or at least till you're dead
You
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD Bm G A
D
Bm
G
A
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