Patty Griffin – Mother Of God (Ukulele)

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Tab by Matt Morrow, PattyNet.net C G C
C                                        F
All you kids get out the back door, I've never seen her this mad before

    C
She took all her favorite things down from the window

    G
And broke them all over her clean floor

     C                            F
It's Saturday at the mansion, the oldest boy walks with a slouch

    C
The young ones are wild in back of the house

        G                        C
And she gave up and went back to sleep on the couch

F                               C
Something as simple as boys and girls

     G                                 Am
Gets tossed all around and lost in the world

F                                     C
Something as hard as a prayer on your back

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Can wait a long time for an answer
When I was little I'd stare at her picture And talk to the mother of God I swear sometimes I'd see her lips move Like she was trying to say something to me When I was eighteen I moved to Florida Like everyone sick of the cold does And I waited on old people waiting to die Oh, I waited on them until I was Something as simple as boys and girls Gets tossed all around and lost in the world Something as hard as a prayer on your back Can wait a long time for an answer C G F C G C G F C G C Now I'm wearing my footsteps into this floor One day I won't live here anymore And someone will wonder who lived here before And went on their way I live too many miles from the ocean And I'm getting older and odd I get up every morning with my cup of coffee And I talk to the mother of God Something as simple as boys and girls Gets tossed all around and lost in the world Something as har as a prayer on your back Can wait a long time for an answer Can wait a long time for an answer F G F G
F           G       F                    G
Maybe it's alright, maybe we won't fight anymore

F             G              Am     G     F       G
Maybe love is waiting at the end of every road

        F             G
I don't know, I don't know

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And maybe, maybe it's alright
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