The White Stripes – Death Letter (Guitar)

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Chords

[Intro] Gm x4 [Verse 1]
        Gm
I got a letter this morning

            Gm             Gm
What do you reckon it read?

            Gm
It said the gal you love is dead

        C                   C
I got a letter this morning

                      G      G G
What do you reckon it read?

      Dm                      C              G     Gm Gm
Said "Hurry, Hurry because the gal you love is dead"

              Gm
Well I packed up my suitcase

  Gm
I took off down the road

           Gm                                 Gm
When I got there she was layin' on the cooling board

               C
I packed up my suitcase

                        G     G G
And I took off down the road

D                       C                    G      G G D
When I got there she was layin' on the cooling board
[Instrumental] G x 4
C Gm G G
Gm x 8
[Verse 2]
               Gm                          Gm
It looked like ten thousand people standing around the burial ground

                G                                    G
I didn't know I loved her 'till they began to let her down

C                                                     G      G G
Looked like ten thousand people standing on the burial ground

                     D        C
I didn't know that I loved her

                            G    G G
'till they began to let her down

              Gm
You know it's so hard to love

             Gm
Someone that don't love you

               Gm
Won't get satisfaction

                    Gm  C
Don't care what you do

                C
So hard to love

                        G  G G
Someone that don't love you

D                           C
Don't look like satisfaction

                    G   Gm G D
Don't care what you do
[Instrumental] G x 4 C Gm G G
D F G G
G x 4
C Gm G G
D F G G
G x 4
[Verse 3]
G         Gm
Well I got up this morning

             G
The break of day

                 Gm
Just hugging the pillows

            G
She used to lay

            C
Got up this morning

             G   G G
The break of day

D
Just hugging the pillows

C                    G
Where my baby used to lay
[Outro] G D G