Suzanne Vega – Witch (Guitar)

   Em                 G                  A                  Am
e|---3-0---3--0---0-|---3-0---3--0---0-|---5-0---5--0---0-|---5-0---5--0---0-|
B|-------0------0---|-------0------0---|------------------|------------------|
G|------------------|------------------|-------2------2---|-------2------2---|
D|-2----------------|-0----------------|------------------|------------------|
A|------------------|------------------|-4----------------|-3----------------|
E|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|

Em*             G*
Going along our usual path

A*                  A*
My love and I on an ordinary day

Em*          G*           A*
  Suddenly before me I see  a person turn

Am*        Em*
I begin to pray

Em*                  G*
She stares me in the eye so bold

A*            Am*
She sees him. Then she makes her pitch

Em*              Em*
  I feel the air become bone cold

A*                            A* A* N.C.
In the light of other ages is...... the witch

E*
What witch hit this switch

E           Em7
 What witch sent this glitch

Bm7             E7
Into the brain? A cranial surprise

E             Em7
 Struck down, his stuttering frown

Bm7                           E
She's hitting him twice as he tries again to rise

C            Em
 What fate decreed this state

Am
Of blunt and shocked despair?

C
 You mute the man

  Em
Because you can

Am                    G
Leaving everybody all stunned and standing there

    E*
She points the wand

Bb*
Cuts the bond

A*                   E*
Suddenly speech is a show of absurdity

E
Hand-to-hand

Em7
He's fighting to stand

Bm7                          E7
We're living in a state of a permanent emergency

E Bb A                    E
     Suddenly speech is a show of absurdity

E                             Em7
(Absurdity, absurdity, absurdity, absurdity)

Bm7                    E*   D     Dsus4* D*
Living in a state of a permanent emer____gency

| A   | A   | Asus4   |
      (Some attention paid)

|D   Dsus4* D* | A   | A   | Asus4   |
                      (A doctor) (It's there now)

|D   Dsus4* D* | A   | A   | Asus4   |
               (Emergency...) (A doctor)

|D   Dsus4* D* | A   | A   | Asus4   |
               (Emergency...) (You are so close to all the action)

C           Em
 What witch sent this glitch

  Am
Into the brain? A cranial surprise

C
 Struck down

Em
His stuttering friend

Am
She's hitting him twice as he tries again to rise

C            Em
 What fate decreed this state

Am
Of blunt and shocked despair?

C
 You mute the man

Em
Because you can

Am                    G
Leaving everybody all stunned and standing there

E            Em7
  What witch hit this switch

Bm7                   E7
Striking him down not only once but twice?

E Em7 Bm7 E7
(Emergency...)

E            Em7
Life divides into two sides

Bm7                     E7
Before and after with a terrible price

E Bb A E
(Emergency...)