Lady Lamb The Beekeeper - Ten Chords

[Am] _ So easily [F] _
I [C] forgot, _ _ lifting [Am] the sandbox [F] in _
_ [C] Arizona and catching [Am] the [F] geckos and keeping [C] them as pets
and [Am] on Halloween [F] _ _
[C] candies, jack-o-lantern, [Dm] their tails would _ fall
_ clear from [C] their _ bodies _ _ _ and we'd shriek and [Dm] we'd _ _ _ run
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[Am] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C]
Playing, _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C]
playing, _ _ _ [Am] my _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C]
sister
_ She _ [Am] _
_ _ [F] _ _ [C] is with me, _ _ [Am] even when [F] we are [C]
apart
_ We were [Am] _
wading [F] through the [C] _
water, _ _ [Am] flashlights [F] flickering in the [C]
dark
_ Climbing [Dm] the laundry _ poles in the _ _ [C] tomato _ garden _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] Spying on _ _ _ all the _ [C] neighbors _ swimming, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[F] _ laughing
_ [C] _ _
_ We were [Am] _ _
_ [F] laughing _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ that [A] _
night
[F] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [Am] _ _ In Maine I met [F] my [C] best friend, _ _ _ [Am] talking till [F] _ 7am
[C] _
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Realizing we're [F] both [C] afraid of the notion
[Am] Of having [F] our brains be [C] in the body of a whale in [Dm] the ocean deep _
Where the light [C] don't _ _ _ _ reach and I loved [Dm] him _ _ instantly _ _
I knew we would [Am] keep _
[F] _ _ _ _ [C] talking, _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[F] _ _ _ [C] talking _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [F] Up _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ the [F] _ wild [C] _ mountain roads, [Am]
Hudson _ [F] to _ [C]
Vermont in the seasons [Am] first
Snow the boys [F] asleep in [C] the back of the car
_ [Am]
We were in [F] the front, we [C] were singing along to [Dm] every word of the song _
That helped make [C] us who we _ _ _ are _ at [Dm] the top of our lungs _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ [F] _ _ _ [C] Singing, _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ [C] singing, _ _ _ _ [Am] my mother
[F] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ [Am] My mother, [A] she _ [C] keeps a journal _ _ [Am] of her [F] childhood _ _ [C]
memories as they return
My [Am] _ favorite's [Dm] the story [C] _ _ recounting when she saw [Am] an eagle [F] with a fish in [C] its mouth _ _
She [A] was 10 and she wrote [F] it [C] down
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There's [A] a sweetness [Dm] in us that [C] lives long past the dust [Am] on our _ eyes
[Dm] Once our eyes [C] finally close
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