The Handsome Family – Emily Shore 1819-1839 (Guitar)

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From the album Milk and Scissors [INTRO] G [VERSE 1]
            G                                     Em
She'd been coughing up blood since the dogwoods bloomed

 C                            D            Em
Seventeen that spring and confined to her room 

    G                                    Em
At night her heart pounded against her chest

  C                       D           Em
Death, like a bird, was building its nest
[CHORUS]
     D                     Am
And so, on the last day of her short life, 

C                     G
Emily called for her father's penknife

     D                           Am
She sawed at her head till the floor pooled with hair 

      C                       Em
and braided a watch chain for father to wear
[VERSE 2]
       G                                      Em
She'd laughed at the graveyard on one sip of wine 

     C                        D                Em
and kept a pet duck till the cat crushed its spine

      G                                   Em
But, waltzing one night in a red velvet dress, 

     C                   D           Em
she noticed a whistling down in her chest
[CHORUS]
     D                     Am
And so, on the last day of her short life, 

C                     G
Emily called for her father's penknife

     D                           Am
She sawed at her head till the floor pooled with hair 

      C                       Em
and braided a watch chain for father to wear
[VERSE 3]
  G                                          Em
Propped up on pillows, she watched the snow fall, 

 C                    D        Em
trying to picture an end to it all

      G                                    Em
By spring there'd be picnics and merry-go-rounds, 

 C                        D             Em
but she'd be nothing but bones in the ground
[CHORUS]
     D                     Am
And so, on the last day of her short life, 

C                     G
Emily called for her father's penknife

     D                           Am
She sawed at her head till the floor pooled with hair 

      C                       Em
and braided a watch chain for father to wear
Em