Sufjan Stevens – Wallowa Lake Monster (Guitar)

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Bm                 E                D/F#
As if you know the story of Wallowa Lake

                Cadd9      D5             Em
Leviathan first hid in the deep where her children sleep

              Dsus2
She kept them hidden from the plague

Bm                     E                    D/F#
But have you heard the story of my mother's fate?

               Cadd9          D5          Em
She left us in Detroit in the rain with a pillowcase

        Dsus2
Fortune for the paperweight

Bm                 E                       D/F#
We followed her to Joseph, near the Indian raid

                   Cadd9           D5            Em
She wept among the weeds, hide and seek, for the fallen chief

      Dsus2
Spathiphyllum on his grave

Bm                 E                          D/F#
And like the cedar waxwing, she was drunk all day

                  Cadd9         D5              Em
We put her in the sheet, little wreath, candles on the crate

       Dsus2
As the monster showed its face

A      G
As she waits for her children in the shade

F             Em
Demogorgon or demigod the ghost parade

F                C                     A
No oblation will bring her back to our place

Bm                    E                   D/F#
She stayed within the deep end of Wallowa Lake

             Cadd9              D5         Em
The undertow refrained with the flame of a feathered snake

          Dsus2
Charybdis in its shallow grave

Bm                   E                            D/F#
She gave us one last feature, the fullness of her face

                 Cadd9       D5          Em
In the shade of "Hin-mah-too-yah", Red Napoleon

       Dsus2
As the demon took her place

A     G
As we wait for the waters to reside

F              Em
Her remarkable stoicism and her pride

F                            C            A
When the dragon submerged we knew she had died