Chords for Michael McDermott - Great American Novel

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[B] [E] 4 p.m. she got a [B] corkscrew in [A] her hand [C#m] and a [B] bottle between [E] her legs.
She lights a candle, lights some incense, [A] lights a cigarette, [C#m] and then she [B] turns to
me [E] and says, hey baby will you [B] help me?
[A] I think tomorrow [C#m] I'm gonna start [B] writing all [E] this down, but I know come tomorrow [A] she [C#m] won't
be anywhere [B] to be [F#m] found.
She said I could have been anything [E] I [B] wanted.
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[B] _ [F#m] Friends all say I could have even [B] been a model.
Yeah.
[A] _ [B] Then she said someday, [A] _ [E] then she said [B] some [A] way, I'll [B] write a great [E] marriage novel.
[B] Whoa, [A] whoa, whoa, whoa.
[C#m] _ [B] _ [E] Mark Twain, Hemingway, Salinger, [A] Rosabello.
[C#m] Sometimes she'll [B] even [E] recite bright eyes.
Leonard Cohen, Jonathan [A] Franzen, or Dave Edgar.
[C#m] Even long [B] after the [E] sunrise.
She'll play Rufus, M.
Ward, [B] Wilco, and [A] Ryan Adams.
[C#m] And all the [B] names I can [E] recall.
She's got books strewn all [B] across her apartment [A] floor.
Man, I [C#m] know she's headed [B] for a [F#m] fall.
She said maybe I'll write about a [B] seagull and a sailor.
_ _ [F#m] How far it is to [E] finally [B] reach the bottom.
Yeah.
[A] _ [E] Then she said [B] someday, [A] _ [B] then she said some [A] way, [E] I'll write a [B] great [E] marriage novel.
Whoa, [A] whoa, whoa, whoa.
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[B] [E] Great marriage novel.
Whoa, [A] whoa, whoa, whoa.
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[B] [C#m] Yeah.
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[B] _ [E] _ _ _ Said maybe it'll be about the loneliness [B] of a lone [A] assassin.
Maybe [C#m] it'll be about the [E] antebellum child.
Maybe it'll be about all the [B] have-nots and the [A] havens.
Or the [C#m] circus boy [E] born without a mouth.
She mumbles and stumbles and speaks with her hand.
[B] She [C#m] covers her [B] mouth when she [E] talks.
And last night she said she thought about [B] ending it all.
[A] She put down her empty [C#m] glass into the kitchen [B] she walked.
[F#m] She thinks she went in there [B] to get a knife.
_ [F#m] My guess is she went to get [B] another bottle.
Yeah.
[A] _ [B] Maybe someday.
[A] _ [B] Maybe some way [A] she'll [B] write a great [E] marriage novel.
[B] Whoa, [C#m] whoa, whoa, whoa.
[B] Great [E] marriage novel.
Whoa, [A] whoa, whoa, whoa.
[C#m] And she [B] says it [E] starts tomorrow.
Whoa, [A] whoa, whoa, whoa.
[C#m] Maybe [B] next [E] Thursday.
_ Whoa, [A] whoa, whoa, whoa.
[C#m]
[B] Great [E] marriage novel. _ _ _ _ _
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