Patty Griffin – Sweet Lorraine (Ukulele)

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 13:36:20 -0800 From: [email protected] Subject: CRD: Sweet Lorraine.crd by Patty Griffin Artist: Patty Griffin Album: Living with Ghosts Transcribed by: Michael Mrozek

I haven?t been playing long, but I think this is on the money.  Any constructive criticism would be appreciated.
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CAPO 3RD

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Sweet Lor raine the        fiery head         brown eyed schemer

who came from a long line of drinkers and dreamers who knew that sunshine don?t hold up to dark whose businesses fail who sleep in the park Lor raine who spoke of paintings in Paris and outlandish things to her family just to scare us whose heart went pokin? where it shouldn?t ought

         F9                        F              G
whose mother could only, spit at the thought

      F9    Gsus4      F        F9  G      Gsus4  F  F9  G
Lorraine, sweet Lorraine

Gsus4           F                          F9                           G
Her          father would    tear out like a   page of the Bible

then he?d burn down the house to announce his arrival her mother was working and never was home Lor raine carved out a little life of her own

Gsus4  F                                    F9                 G
Lor      raine started working, Lorraine went to   school

her mother threw stones at her on the day that she moved now isn?t that a very strange thing to do

    F9                                   F         G
for someone who never really wanted you

     F9     Gsus4     F               F9  G
Lorraine, sweet Lorraine

       Dm                                    F
Her daddy called her a slut and a whore

          F                    G                   Dm
on the night before her wedding day

                                F
the very next morning, at the church

      G                  F9
her daddy gave, Lorraine away, Lorraine away

              Gsus4      F
Lorraine, sweet Lorraine

Gsus4           F                          F9                                    G
In the       battle of         time, in the             battle of will

it?s only your hope and your heart that gets killed and it?s harder and harder Lorraine, to believe in magic F9

                 F9                                             F         G
when        what came      before you was        so very tragic

  F9         Gsus4    F
Lorraine, sweet Lorraine

Gsus4      F         F9  G       Gsus4  F  F9  G
Sweet Lorraine

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