The Magdalene Laundries

The Magdalene Laundries easy guitar chords by Joni Mitchell

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  • Intro 1




    Verse 1
    was 
    an unmarried 
    girl 

    I'd 
    just 
    turned 
    twenty- 
    seven 

    When they 
    sent 
    me 
    to the 
    sisters 

    For 
    the 
    way men 
    looked 
    at 
    me 

    Branded 
    as 
    Jezebel 

    knew 
    was 
    not 
    bound 
    for 
    Heaven 

    I'd 
    be cast 
    in shame 

    Into 
    the 
    Magdalene 
    laundries 

    Verse 2

    Most 
    girls 
    come 
    here 
    pregnant 

    Some 
    by their 
    own 
    fathers 

    Bridget 
    got 
    that belly 
    by 

    her 
    parish 
    priest 

    We're 
    trying 
    to 
    get things 
    white 
    as 
    snow 

    All 
    of us 
    woe- 
    begotten- 
    daughters 

    In 
    the streaming 
    stains 

    Of 
    the Magdalene 
    laundries 

    Verse 3

    Prostitutes 
    and 
    destitutes 

    And 
    temptresses like 
    me 

    Fallen 
    women 

    Sentenced 
    into 
    dreamless 

    drudgery 

    Why 
    do 
    they 
    call 
    this 
    heartless 
    place 

    Our 
    Lady 
    of Charity? 

    Oh, 
    charity 

    Verse 4

    These 
    bloodless 
    brides 
    of 
    Jesus 

    If they 
    had 
    just 
    once 
    glimpsed 

    their groom 

    Then they'd 
    know, 

    and they'd 
    drop 
    the 
    stones 

    Concealed 
    behind 
    their 
    rosaries 

    They 
    wilt 
    the grass 
    they 
    walk 
    upon 

    They 
    leech 
    the light 
    out 
    of a room 

    They'd 
    like 
    to drive 
    us 
    down 
    the 
    drain 

    At 
    the 
    Magdalene 
    laundries 

    Verse 5

    Peg 
    O'Connell 
    died 
    today 

    She 
    was a cheeky 
    girl 

    A flirt 

    They 
    just 
    stuffed 
    her 
    in a 
    hole! 

    Surely 
    to 
    God 
    you'd 
    think 
    at 
    least 

    some 
    bells 
    should 
    ring! 

    One 
    day 
    I'm 
    going 
    to die 

    here 
    too 

    And they'll 
    plant 
    me 
    in 

    the dirt 

    Like some 
    lame 
    bulb 

    That 
    never 
    blooms, 
    come 
    any 
    spring 

    Not 
    any 
    spring 

    Interlude 1



    Verse 6
    No, 
    not 
    any 
    spring 

    Not 
    any 
    spring 


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