Sufjan Stevens – Wallowa Lake Monster (Guitar)

Em                   A               Em
As if you know the story of Wallowa Lake

                 C          G               Am
Leviathan first hid in the deep where her children sleep

     D          G
She kept them hidden from the plague

Em                       A                   Em
But have you heard the story of my mother’s fate?

Em              C      Am      G             C        Am
She left us in Detroit in the rain with a pillowcase

D       G                    C
Fortune for the paperweight

    Em                A
We followed her to Joseph, near the Indian raid

G   Em               C             G              Am
She wept among the weeds, hide and seek, for the fallen chief

           G
Spathiphyllum on his grave

Em                 A   F#m   A                G
And like the cedar waxwing, she was drunk all day

                   C            G              Am
We put her in the sheet, little wreath, candles on the crate

D        G
As the monster showed its face

D       C                             F
As she waits for her children in the shade

               Am
Demogorgon or demigod the ghost parade

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No oblation will bring her back to our place

Em                      D                  G
She stayed within the deep end of Wallowa Lake

      Em      C                    G         Am
The undertow refrained with the flame of a feathered snake

   G
Charybdis in its shallow grave

Em                     A                           G
She gave us one last feature, the fullness of her face

Em                C            G           Am
In the shade of "Hin-mah-too-yah…" (Red Napoleon)

        G
As the demon took her place

D     C                       F
As we wait for the waters to reside

                Am
Her remarkable stoicism and her pride

A#               F        Am                D  A
When the dragon submerged we knew she had died