The Traitor chords by
Martha Wainwright
Martha Wainwright

N/A
Key: A major
Intro 1
D
D

G
G

D
D

G
G

C
C

Verse 1
G
G

Now the swan
C
C

G
G

it floated on the English river
D
D

G
G

C
C

Ah, the rose of high romance,
G
G

it opened wide
B
B

Em
Em

A sun tanned woman yearned me
C
C

G
G

through the summer
D
D

And the judges watched
C
C

us from the other side
G
G

Verse 2
C
C

I told my mother, "Mother,
G
G

I must leave you
C
C

G
G

A
A

Preserve my room but do not shed a tear
C
C

B
B

Em
Em

Should rumor of a shabby
C
C

G
G

ending reach you
D
D

C
C

It was half my fault and half
G
G

the atmosphere"
Verse 3
G
G

C
C

But the rose I sickene
G
G

d with a scarlet fever
C
C

And the swan I tempted with
G
G

a sense of shame
B
B

Em
Em

C
C

G
G

She said at last I was her finest lover
A
A

And if she withered I would be to blame
D
D

Verse 4
G
G

The judges said,
C
C

G
G

"You missed it by a fraction
Rise up and brace your
C
C

G
G

troops for the attack"
B
B

Em
Em

Ah, the dreamers ride against
C
C

G
G

the men of action
D
D

C
C

G
G

Oh, see the men of action falling back
Verse 5
G
G

C
C

G
G

But I lingered on her thighs, a fatal moment
C
C

G
G

I kissed her lips as though I thirsted still
B
B

Em
Em

C
C

My falsity had stung me
G
G

like a hornet
D
D

C
C

The poison sank and it
G
G

paralyzed my will
Verse 6
G
G

C
C

I could not move to warn all
G
G

the younger soldiers
C
C

G
G

That they had been deserted from above
B
B

Em
Em

So on battlefields from
C
C

G
G

here to Barcelona
D
D

A
A

I'm listed with the enemies
Interlude 1
of love
D
D

Verse 7
G
G

C
C

And long ago she said,
G
G

"I must be leaving
C
C

G
G

Ah, but keep my body here to lie upon
B
B

Em
Em

You can move it up and down
C
C

G
G

and when I'm sleeping
D
D

Run some wire through that
C
C

G
G

rose and wind the swan"
Verse 8
G
G

C
C

G
G

So daily I renew my idle duty
C
C

G
G

I touch her here and there, I know my place
B
B

Em
Em

I kiss her open mouth an
C
C

G
G

d I praise her beauty
D
D

C
C

G
G

And people call me traitor to my face
Outro 1
G
G

C
C

G
G

C
C

G
G

B
B

Em
Em

C
C

G
G

D
D

C
C

G
G

D
D

C
C

C
C

Gm
Gm

G
G

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