Chords for Marie Laveau - VooDoo Queen - Music by Dr. John

[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ Now they [F] live a congelated not long ago [Dm] in New Orleans, Louisiana named Marie Laveau.
_ [F] Believe it or not, [Dm] strange [F] as it seems, [Dm] she made a fortune selling fruit and interpreting dreams.
She was known throughout the nation as the Voodoo Queen.
_ Folks come to her from miles and miles around.
She sold her holly fruit, [A] that [Dm] Voodoo down.
_ _ [F] To the Voodoo Lady [Dm] they [F] all would go.
The rich, the educated, [Dm] the [F] ignorant and the poor.
[Dm] _ She'd snap her fingers and shake her head.
_ She'd tell them about their lovers [A] _ [Dm] living up here.
Now all over the nation, named Willie Brown.
_ [F] That's why her lover stopped coming [Dm] around.
_ [F] The Voodoo gave [Dm] in [F] her and squawked.
[Dm] I seen him kissing a young girl up in Shakespeare's Bar.
And they were trying to walk [A] free [Dm] in the dark.
Oh Marie Laveau. _ _ _
Oh Marie Laveau.
Oh Marie Laveau.
Oh Marie Laveau.
_ Marie [Gm] Laveau.
The Voodoo Queen [Dm] from way down yonder.
The Voodoo Queen. _
_ [C] Ya [E] ya ya.
[D] Ya [F] ya ya.
[Em] Ya [G] ya ya.
[Dm] Ya [D] ya ya.
[Bb] The old [F] old lady, she's lost her speech.
[Dm] _ Tears start to roll down her [F] cheeks.
_ [Dm] _ Voodoo say, hush my dog, don't you cry.
_ I'll make him come back, _ back and back.
Just sprinkle his snake dust all over your floor.
I'll make him come back Friday morning, when the rooster crows.
Now Marie Laveau, she held [F] him in her hand.
[Dm] We were all in Louisiana, was her [F] promised land.
[Dm] _ [F] While the folks [Dm] come from far and near.
_ [F] Just one to [Dm] one, all to hear.
_ They was afraid to be seen at her gate.
_ They creeped through the dark, just to hear them think.
_ Holding dog bails, holding him.
He was trembling, _ [A] when Marie [Dm] Laveau say.
Marie Laveau.
Oh Marie Laveau.
Marie Laveau.
Oh Marie Laveau.
Marie Laveau.
[Gm] _ Voodoo queen, [Dm] will be there to answer, [A] [Dm] if you are here.
Ya [E] ya ya, _ [Dm] ya [F] ya ya, _ [E] ya [G] ya ya, [Dm] ya [D] ya.
_ [Dm] _ She [F] lay greet [Dm] greet, with her [F] old ram horn.
[Dm] _ Stuck with feathers, [F] _ shucked from her corn.
[Dm] _ Big black candle, and a [F]
catfish fin.
[Dm] Make a man get religious, or get him [F] up in sin.
_ [Dm] _ Sad news got out one morning, at the break of day.
_ Marie Laveau, had done passed away.
St.
Louis Cemetery, she lay in her tomb.
She was buried one night, [A] on the way to [Dm] the moon.
Marie Laveau.
Oh Marie Laveau.
Oh Marie Laveau.
Oh Marie Laveau.
The folks still believe, [Gm] in the voodoo queen.
[Dm] Who will be done yonder, [Am] [Dm] if you are here.
Oh Marie Laveau.
Oh Marie _ Laveau.
Oh Marie Laveau.
Oh Marie Laveau.
Oh Marie Laveau.
Marie [Gm] Laveau, the voodoo queen.
[Dm] Who will be done yonder, [A] [Dm] if you are here.
Oh Marie Laveau.
Oh Marie Laveau.
_ Oh Marie Laveau.
Oh Marie _ _ _ _ Laveau.
[Gm] The voodoo queen.