Indigo Girls – Burn All The Letters (Guitar)

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chords Used: G 355433 Asus4 x02230 Dsus4 xx0233 G# 466544 A# 688766 D# x6888x Cm x35543 [Verse]
                  C#m           Asus4             D    Dsus4  D
I am sorry that I set my sights  on the things I read

                         G             Asus4               Bm
Something meant for your husband maybe you left under the bed

                                  G                       Asus4         D    Dsus4  D
Once upon a love those words blew free and secret but the pages lay around

                                   G               Asus4                D    Dsus4  D
Drifted into the hands of the publisher and the greedy generations on down
[Chorus]
             G                   A
Burn all the letters (someone is always watching)

                        Bm
The government's on the phone (whether openly or secretly)

             G
Burn all the letters (breathe life into your story)

          A                 D    Dsus4  D
Send them on to a safer home (burn it to secrecy)

             G                     A              D  Dsus2  Csus2
Burn all the letters brand them in you before you go

                           G                      Asus4                    D    Dsus4  D
Soldiers are coming to plunder but there are some things they will never know
[Verse] (Key Change)
                        G#     A#                         D#
We made our love out of dignity we dug our nails in the dirt

                                G#             A#                    Cm
Hung out towel-soaked souls out on the line we loved so hard that it hurt

                         G#              A#               Cm
To ease my pain I took a pen and paper incarnate came the bleeding

                        G#            A#                    D#
Send it back before the public eye perverts it in in the reading
[Chorus]
             G#                  A#
Burn all the letters (someone is always watching)

                        Cm
The government's on the phone (whether openly or secretly)

              G#
Burn all the letters (breathe life into your story)

          A#                D#
Send them back to a safer home (burn it to secrecy)

             G#                    A#             D#  D#sus2  C#sus2
Burn all the letters brand them in you before you go

                   G#                            A#
Soldiers coming to plunder but there are some things they will never know
D# [Outro]
             G#      A#
Burn all the letters

                        Cm
The government's on the phone

              G#
Burn all the letters

          A#                D#
Send them back to a safer home

             G#         A#             D#  D#sus2  C#sus2
Burn all the letters to you and you to me

                                 G#                  A#
They're coming to take what they can but they cannot read what they cannot see
D#