Natalie Merchant – Motherland (Guitar)

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Song: Motherland Artist: Natalie Merchant How to play: first hit lowest bass-string you should play on the chord, then the chord completely twice. Just listen to the track, it's really easy. [Intro] Em [Verse 1]
Em                     Bm  C                            G
Where in hell can you go, far from the things that you know,

C                          G                              D
Far from this sprawl of concrete that keeps crawling its way,

                       Em
'Bout a thousand miles a day.
[Verse 2]
Em                    Bm      C                       G
Take one last look behind, commit this to memory and mind,

C                               G                         D
Don't miss this wasteland, this terrible place, when you leave,

                         Em
Keep your heart off your sleeve.
[Chorus]
      G           D            C                    G
Motherland cradle me, close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep,

         C                G                       D             Em
Keep me safe, lie with me - stay beside me, don't go, don't you go
[Verse 3]
Em                   Bm    C                       G
Oh, my five and dime queen, tell me what have you seen,

    C                         G                           D
The lust and the avarice, the bottomless, the cavernous greed,

                  Em
Is that what you see?
[Chorus]
          G           D            C                    G
Oh, Motherland cradle me, close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep,

         C                G                       D
Keep me safe, lie with me - stay beside me, don't go
[Bridge]
          C                  G
It's your happiness - I want most of all

        C           A7          D
And for that I'd do anything at all, oh mercy me.

                C                 G
If you want the best of it or the most of all,

           C        A7          D
If there's anything I can do at all.
[Instrumental Verse] Em Bm C G C G D D Em Em [Verse 4]
Em                    Bm    C                        G
Now, come on shotgun bride, what makes me envy your life,

    C                           G                            D
The faceless, the nameless, the innocent, the blameless and free,

                 Em
What's that like to be?
[Chorus]
          G           D            C                    G
Oh, Motherland cradle me, close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep,

         C                G                      D
Keep me safe, lie with me - stay beside me don't go, don't go

      G           D            C                    G
Motherland cradle me, close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep,

         C                G                  D            D      D     Em
Keep me safe, lie with me - stay beside me, don't go, don't go...