Chords for Joni Mitchell - The Magdalene Laundries

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_ _ _ [A] _ _ I was an unmarried girl _ [F#] I just turned 27
_ _ _ [A] _ When they sent me to the sisters [C#] All the women looked at me _
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_ _ I knew I was not bound for heaven _ I'd be cast and [E] chained into the Magdalene
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_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ Most girls come here pregnant
_ [C#m] _ Some by their own fathers _ [A] Bridget _ got that belly
_ [F#] By her parish priest [C#] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [D] _
We're trying to get things right
I know [F#] [C#] all of us won't be gotten daughters _ [D] In the steaming [E] steams of the Magdalene
_ _ [F#] laundries
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_ _ _ good [Em] _ [C#] and [F#] the doubtless like me _ _ [D] _ _ _
Fallen women sent to [F#m] dreamless _
[C#] _ treachery
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Why do they call this heartless [F#m] place Our Lady of Charity?
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_ _ _ [F#] _ _ [A] These bloodless brides of Jesus If they [E] had just once glimpsed their [F#m] room
They would know [A] _ And they'd drop those stones concealed behind [C#] their rosaries
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ [D] _ They wilt the grass they walk upon They [C#] reach the light out of a room
_ _ [B] They like [D] to drive us down the drain [A] At the [E] _ Magdalene [F#] _ laundries
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Peg O'Connell died today _ [E] _ [C#] _ She was a cheeky girl but learned
They'd just stopped [A] her in her hole Surely the guardian'd think at least
[F#] Some pills should [C#] ring
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ One day I'm gonna die here too [F#] And they will plant me in the dirt
_ _ _ [D] _ Like some lame ball that never [F#m] blooms Not in the spring
_ [F#] _ [A] Not in the spring
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_ _ Not in the spring _ _
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