Chords for Joni Mitchell - The Magdelene Laundries

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I was a long married girl, _ [F#] _ I'd just turned 27
And [A] _ _
they sent me to the sisters [F#m] for the way men looked at me
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Granded as a Jezebel, I [F#m] knew I was not bound for [F#m] heaven
_ [D] I'd be cast and chained [E] into the _ meadow of [F#m] their thorns
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Most girls come here pregnant, _ [C#] _ _
some by their own _ [A] fathers
Bridget _ _ _ got that belly [F#] by her parish [F#m] priest
_ _ _ [D] _ We're trying to get by the [B] snow, all [F#m] of us will be cotton _ dotters
[D] In the streaming streams of the [E] _ _ [F#m] Magdalene _ boundaries _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Prostitutes and [A] destitutes [F#m] _ and temptresses like _ me
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Fallen women [F#m] sentenced into dreamless drudgery
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Why do they call this [B] heartless place [F#m] our lady of charity?
_ _ _ [D] Oh, [A] charity
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_ _ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ These bloodless brides of Jesus, if they [C#] just once
Glimpse their groom, [A] the midnoon
And then drop the stones concealed [F#] behind their _ _ rosaries
[F#m] _ _ _ [D] _ They wilt the grass, they walk up, [B] they [F#m] leech the light out of the moon
_ They'd [A] like to drive us down the drain at the [E] _ _ [F#m] Magdalene _ boundaries _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Peg O'Connell died [E] today, [C#] she was a cheeky girl, a flirt
They just stuffed her [A] in a hole
Surely to God you'd [E] think at least [F#m] some bell should ring
_ _ _ _ [D] _ One day I'm gonna die, _ _ [F#m] and they'll look at me in the dirt
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Some lame old whatever [E] blues, [F#m] _ called any spring
_ _ [A] Called any spring
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_ _ _ No, that ain't no spring, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ no that ain't no spring
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