Micheline Chords by Sun Kil Moon
Tempo:
122.3 bpm
Chords used:
A
D
Bm
F#m
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[A]
[D] [A] [Bm]
[A]
[D] [A]
[Bm] [A] Michaeline used to come to our house [D] and [Bm] knock on our door.
[A] My dad would answer and say, what do you want girl?
And she'd say, [D] can I take a bath with [Bm] mom?
[A] My dad would say, my son ain't here.
My dad would just send [D] her home and [C#m] shut the [Bm] door and we'd all lie.
[A] And Michaeline would walk down the street glowing and smiling like she'd just gotten Paul [Bm] McCartney's autograph.
[F#m] But [E] Brann worked a [D] little slower [A] than the [F#m] others.
She [E] wore thick [D] rimmed glasses.
[A] [D] [F#m] She [E] took a different [D] bus to school [A] than the other [F#m] kids and was [E] in a different kind [D] of class.
[A] She [E] got older in [A] the neighborhood.
A thug moved in with her and started taking [Bm] her welfare.
[A] He took her down to the bank, helped her withdraw his savings that was put away [Bm] for her and he went off with her.
[A] The cops caught up with him, he did a little time and cut.
So many [Bm] years later, [A] he's doing life in a Florida penitentiary with [D] his father and both of them [Bm] for murder.
[A]
Michaeline, [D] Michaline.
[A]
Michaeline, [D] Michaeline.
[F#m]
[A] Michaeline, [D] Michaeline, [A] Michaeline.
And [F#m] she wanted love [A] like [D] anyone else.
[A]
Michaeline, Michaline, Michaeline.
She had dreams like anyone else.
My friend Brett, my friend Brett, my friend Brett, my [D] friend Brett, he [A] likes to [Bm] play the guitar.
[A] But he had an awkward way of playing bar chords with two [D] fingers spreading [A] his index and [Bm] middle
fingers really [A] far apart.
One day at band practice he dropped like a deer was shot, [D] he was [A] flipping around like [Bm] a fish.
[A] He had an aneurysm triggered by a nerve in his hand from the strain he [Bm] was putting on it.
[F#m] I [E] went to see [D] him in [A] Ohio, he [F#m] had a horseshoe [E] shaped scar [D] in his scalp [A] and he talked about
it real slow.
We played [D] pool like we did [A] in our teens and his head was [E] shaved and he [D] still wore a bell [A] bottom.
In 99 I was on tour in Sweden when [D] I [A] called [Bm] home [A] to tell my mom I got a part in a movie
where she [D] said [A] Marcus Alden and [Bm] he didn't know.
[A] Brad died the other day, you really should send [D] a letter to his [A] mom and [Bm] dad.
[A] And I got on my train to Malmo and looked out at the snow feeling somewhere [Bm] between
happy and sad.
[A] My friend Brad, my friend [D] Brad, [A] my friend Brad, my [D] friend Brad, [F#m] my [A]
friend Brad, my [D] [A] friend
Brad, my friend Brad.
He had a wife and a son.
My friend Brad, my friend Brad, my friend Brad, he just liked to play guitar and he never heard any.
My grandma, my grandma, my grandma, my [D] grandma, my [A] grandma, [Bm] my grandma.
[A] Before she passed away we'd go and visit her at my aunt's house when I was small.
[Bm] [A] I couldn't bear the shape she was in so at the top of the driveway I'd sit in [Bm] the car.
[A] And one day I was just fucking around when I put it in reverse and I was free falling.
[Bm] [F#m] [E] I remember [D] the car [A] moving, [F#m] my [E] heart was beating [D] and I [A] backed out.
[F#m] [E] Another car was [D] coming down [A] the street and [F#m] I told them [E]
[D] both and I got [A] knocked out.
My grandma, my grandma, my grandma, my grandma, my grandma, my [Bm] grandma.
[A] First time I met her she lived in L.A. I [D] think it [A] was [Bm] Huntington Park.
[A] I made friends with a kid named Marcelo and another kid named [Bm] Cyrus Hunt.
[A] We'd go downtown and get ice cream and eat french fries at the Pigeons and [D] talk to the
[A] handicapped [Bm] vets from [A] Vietnam.
[F#m] [E] It was the first [D] time I saw [A] a hummingbird [F#m] or a palm [E] tree [D] or a liver [A] [F#m] or saw an ocean
[E]
or [D] heard David [A] Bowie's Young [F#m] Americans [E] or saw the movie [D] Benji [A] in the theater.
My grandma, my [D] grandma, [A] my grandma, my [D] grandma, [F#m] my [E]
[D] grandma, my [A] grandma.
I heard she had a pretty [D] hard [A] life but after her [D] first [A] cousin passed away she met a man
from California who treated her really nice.
My [E] grandma, my [D] grandma, [A] my grandma, my grandma, [E] my [D] grandma, my [A] grandma.
I [F#m] was diagnosed [E] at [A] 62.
[D] [A] [F#m] [C#m] A kid [A] stepped up [D] to play [A] for her and they were there the whole way through.
[D] [A]
[D] [A] [Bm]
[A]
[D] [A]
[Bm] [A] Michaeline used to come to our house [D] and [Bm] knock on our door.
[A] My dad would answer and say, what do you want girl?
And she'd say, [D] can I take a bath with [Bm] mom?
[A] My dad would say, my son ain't here.
My dad would just send [D] her home and [C#m] shut the [Bm] door and we'd all lie.
[A] And Michaeline would walk down the street glowing and smiling like she'd just gotten Paul [Bm] McCartney's autograph.
[F#m] But [E] Brann worked a [D] little slower [A] than the [F#m] others.
She [E] wore thick [D] rimmed glasses.
[A] [D] [F#m] She [E] took a different [D] bus to school [A] than the other [F#m] kids and was [E] in a different kind [D] of class.
[A] She [E] got older in [A] the neighborhood.
A thug moved in with her and started taking [Bm] her welfare.
[A] He took her down to the bank, helped her withdraw his savings that was put away [Bm] for her and he went off with her.
[A] The cops caught up with him, he did a little time and cut.
So many [Bm] years later, [A] he's doing life in a Florida penitentiary with [D] his father and both of them [Bm] for murder.
[A]
Michaeline, [D] Michaline.
[A]
Michaeline, [D] Michaeline.
[F#m]
[A] Michaeline, [D] Michaeline, [A] Michaeline.
And [F#m] she wanted love [A] like [D] anyone else.
[A]
Michaeline, Michaline, Michaeline.
She had dreams like anyone else.
My friend Brett, my friend Brett, my friend Brett, my [D] friend Brett, he [A] likes to [Bm] play the guitar.
[A] But he had an awkward way of playing bar chords with two [D] fingers spreading [A] his index and [Bm] middle
fingers really [A] far apart.
One day at band practice he dropped like a deer was shot, [D] he was [A] flipping around like [Bm] a fish.
[A] He had an aneurysm triggered by a nerve in his hand from the strain he [Bm] was putting on it.
[F#m] I [E] went to see [D] him in [A] Ohio, he [F#m] had a horseshoe [E] shaped scar [D] in his scalp [A] and he talked about
it real slow.
We played [D] pool like we did [A] in our teens and his head was [E] shaved and he [D] still wore a bell [A] bottom.
In 99 I was on tour in Sweden when [D] I [A] called [Bm] home [A] to tell my mom I got a part in a movie
where she [D] said [A] Marcus Alden and [Bm] he didn't know.
[A] Brad died the other day, you really should send [D] a letter to his [A] mom and [Bm] dad.
[A] And I got on my train to Malmo and looked out at the snow feeling somewhere [Bm] between
happy and sad.
[A] My friend Brad, my friend [D] Brad, [A] my friend Brad, my [D] friend Brad, [F#m] my [A]
friend Brad, my [D] [A] friend
Brad, my friend Brad.
He had a wife and a son.
My friend Brad, my friend Brad, my friend Brad, he just liked to play guitar and he never heard any.
My grandma, my grandma, my grandma, my [D] grandma, my [A] grandma, [Bm] my grandma.
[A] Before she passed away we'd go and visit her at my aunt's house when I was small.
[Bm] [A] I couldn't bear the shape she was in so at the top of the driveway I'd sit in [Bm] the car.
[A] And one day I was just fucking around when I put it in reverse and I was free falling.
[Bm] [F#m] [E] I remember [D] the car [A] moving, [F#m] my [E] heart was beating [D] and I [A] backed out.
[F#m] [E] Another car was [D] coming down [A] the street and [F#m] I told them [E]
[D] both and I got [A] knocked out.
My grandma, my grandma, my grandma, my grandma, my grandma, my [Bm] grandma.
[A] First time I met her she lived in L.A. I [D] think it [A] was [Bm] Huntington Park.
[A] I made friends with a kid named Marcelo and another kid named [Bm] Cyrus Hunt.
[A] We'd go downtown and get ice cream and eat french fries at the Pigeons and [D] talk to the
[A] handicapped [Bm] vets from [A] Vietnam.
[F#m] [E] It was the first [D] time I saw [A] a hummingbird [F#m] or a palm [E] tree [D] or a liver [A] [F#m] or saw an ocean
[E]
or [D] heard David [A] Bowie's Young [F#m] Americans [E] or saw the movie [D] Benji [A] in the theater.
My grandma, my [D] grandma, [A] my grandma, my [D] grandma, [F#m] my [E]
[D] grandma, my [A] grandma.
I heard she had a pretty [D] hard [A] life but after her [D] first [A] cousin passed away she met a man
from California who treated her really nice.
My [E] grandma, my [D] grandma, [A] my grandma, my grandma, [E] my [D] grandma, my [A] grandma.
I [F#m] was diagnosed [E] at [A] 62.
[D] [A] [F#m] [C#m] A kid [A] stepped up [D] to play [A] for her and they were there the whole way through.
[D] [A]
Key:
A
D
Bm
F#m
E
A
D
Bm
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [A] _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ Michaeline used to come to our house [D] and [Bm] knock on our door.
_ _ [A] _ My dad would answer and say, what do you want girl?
And she'd say, [D] can I take a bath with [Bm] mom?
_ _ [A] _ My dad would say, my son ain't here.
My dad would just send [D] her home and [C#m] shut the [Bm] door and we'd all lie.
_ [A] _ And Michaeline would walk down the street glowing and smiling like she'd just gotten Paul [Bm] McCartney's autograph.
_ _ [F#m] But [E] Brann worked a [D] little slower [A] than the [F#m] others.
She [E] wore thick [D] rimmed glasses.
[A] _ _ [D] [F#m] She [E] took a different [D] bus to school [A] than the other [F#m] kids and was [E] in a different kind [D] of class.
_ [A] _ _ _ She [E] got older in [A] the neighborhood.
A thug moved in with her and started taking [Bm] her welfare.
_ _ [A] _ He took her down to the bank, helped her withdraw his savings that was put away [Bm] for her and he went off with her.
[A] _ The cops caught up with him, he did a little time and cut.
So many [Bm] years later, _ [A] _ he's doing life in a Florida penitentiary with [D] his father and both of them [Bm] for murder.
_ [A] _ _
Michaeline, _ [D] Michaline.
_ [A] _ _
Michaeline, [D] Michaeline.
_ _ [F#m] _ _
[A] Michaeline, [D] Michaeline, [A] Michaeline.
And [F#m] she wanted love [A] like [D] anyone else.
[A] _ _ _ _
Michaeline, Michaline, Michaeline.
She had dreams like anyone else.
_ _ _ My friend Brett, my friend Brett, my friend Brett, my [D] friend Brett, he [A] likes to [Bm] play the guitar.
_ _ [A] _ But he had an awkward way of playing bar chords with two [D] fingers spreading [A] his index and [Bm] middle
fingers really [A] far apart.
One day at band practice he dropped like a deer was shot, [D] he was [A] flipping around like [Bm] a fish.
_ _ [A] He had an aneurysm triggered by a nerve in his hand from the strain he [Bm] was putting on it.
_ [F#m] I [E] went to see [D] him in [A] Ohio, he [F#m] had a horseshoe [E] shaped scar [D] in his scalp [A] and he talked about
it real slow.
We played [D] pool like we did [A] in our teens and his head was [E] shaved and he [D] still wore a bell [A] bottom.
_ In 99 I was on tour in Sweden when [D] I [A] called [Bm] home _ _ _ [A] to tell my mom I got a part in a movie
where she [D] said [A] Marcus Alden and [Bm] he didn't know.
_ _ [A] _ Brad died the other day, you really should send [D] a letter to his [A] mom and [Bm] dad.
_ _ [A] And I got on my train to Malmo and looked out at the snow feeling somewhere [Bm] between
happy and sad.
[A] _ My friend Brad, my friend [D] Brad, _ [A] _ my friend Brad, my [D] friend Brad, _ [F#m] my [A]
friend Brad, my [D] [A] friend
Brad, my friend Brad.
He had a wife and a son.
_ _ My friend Brad, my friend Brad, my friend Brad, he just liked to play guitar and he never heard any.
_ My grandma, my grandma, my grandma, my [D] grandma, my [A] grandma, [Bm] my grandma.
_ _ [A] _ Before she passed away we'd go and visit her at my aunt's house when I was small.
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [A] I couldn't bear the shape she was in so at the top of the driveway I'd sit in [Bm] the car.
_ _ [A] _ And one day I was just fucking around when I put it in reverse and I was free falling.
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ [E] I remember [D] the car [A] moving, _ [F#m] my [E] heart was beating [D] and I [A] backed out.
[F#m] _ [E] Another car was [D] coming down [A] the street and [F#m] I told them [E]
[D] both and I got [A] knocked out.
My grandma, my grandma, my grandma, my grandma, my grandma, my [Bm] grandma.
_ _ _ [A] First time I met her she lived in L.A. I [D] think it [A] was [Bm] Huntington Park.
_ _ _ [A] I made friends with a kid named Marcelo and another kid named [Bm] Cyrus Hunt.
_ _ [A] We'd go downtown and get ice cream and eat french fries at the Pigeons and [D] talk to the
[A] handicapped [Bm] vets from [A] Vietnam.
_ [F#m] _ [E] It was the first [D] time I saw [A] a hummingbird [F#m] or a palm [E] tree [D] or a liver [A] _ [F#m] or saw an ocean
[E]
or [D] heard David [A] Bowie's Young [F#m] Americans [E] or saw the movie [D] Benji [A] in the theater.
_ My grandma, my [D] grandma, _ _ [A] my grandma, my [D] grandma, _ _ [F#m] my [E] _
_ [D] grandma, my [A] grandma.
I heard she had a pretty [D] hard [A] life _ _ but after her [D] first [A] cousin passed away she met a man
from California who treated her really nice.
My [E] grandma, my [D] grandma, _ [A] my _ grandma, my grandma, _ _ [E] my _ [D] grandma, my [A] grandma.
I [F#m] was diagnosed [E] at [A] 62.
[D] _ [A] _ _ [F#m] _ [C#m] A kid [A] stepped up [D] to play [A] for her and they were there the whole way through.
[D] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [A] _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ Michaeline used to come to our house [D] and [Bm] knock on our door.
_ _ [A] _ My dad would answer and say, what do you want girl?
And she'd say, [D] can I take a bath with [Bm] mom?
_ _ [A] _ My dad would say, my son ain't here.
My dad would just send [D] her home and [C#m] shut the [Bm] door and we'd all lie.
_ [A] _ And Michaeline would walk down the street glowing and smiling like she'd just gotten Paul [Bm] McCartney's autograph.
_ _ [F#m] But [E] Brann worked a [D] little slower [A] than the [F#m] others.
She [E] wore thick [D] rimmed glasses.
[A] _ _ [D] [F#m] She [E] took a different [D] bus to school [A] than the other [F#m] kids and was [E] in a different kind [D] of class.
_ [A] _ _ _ She [E] got older in [A] the neighborhood.
A thug moved in with her and started taking [Bm] her welfare.
_ _ [A] _ He took her down to the bank, helped her withdraw his savings that was put away [Bm] for her and he went off with her.
[A] _ The cops caught up with him, he did a little time and cut.
So many [Bm] years later, _ [A] _ he's doing life in a Florida penitentiary with [D] his father and both of them [Bm] for murder.
_ [A] _ _
Michaeline, _ [D] Michaline.
_ [A] _ _
Michaeline, [D] Michaeline.
_ _ [F#m] _ _
[A] Michaeline, [D] Michaeline, [A] Michaeline.
And [F#m] she wanted love [A] like [D] anyone else.
[A] _ _ _ _
Michaeline, Michaline, Michaeline.
She had dreams like anyone else.
_ _ _ My friend Brett, my friend Brett, my friend Brett, my [D] friend Brett, he [A] likes to [Bm] play the guitar.
_ _ [A] _ But he had an awkward way of playing bar chords with two [D] fingers spreading [A] his index and [Bm] middle
fingers really [A] far apart.
One day at band practice he dropped like a deer was shot, [D] he was [A] flipping around like [Bm] a fish.
_ _ [A] He had an aneurysm triggered by a nerve in his hand from the strain he [Bm] was putting on it.
_ [F#m] I [E] went to see [D] him in [A] Ohio, he [F#m] had a horseshoe [E] shaped scar [D] in his scalp [A] and he talked about
it real slow.
We played [D] pool like we did [A] in our teens and his head was [E] shaved and he [D] still wore a bell [A] bottom.
_ In 99 I was on tour in Sweden when [D] I [A] called [Bm] home _ _ _ [A] to tell my mom I got a part in a movie
where she [D] said [A] Marcus Alden and [Bm] he didn't know.
_ _ [A] _ Brad died the other day, you really should send [D] a letter to his [A] mom and [Bm] dad.
_ _ [A] And I got on my train to Malmo and looked out at the snow feeling somewhere [Bm] between
happy and sad.
[A] _ My friend Brad, my friend [D] Brad, _ [A] _ my friend Brad, my [D] friend Brad, _ [F#m] my [A]
friend Brad, my [D] [A] friend
Brad, my friend Brad.
He had a wife and a son.
_ _ My friend Brad, my friend Brad, my friend Brad, he just liked to play guitar and he never heard any.
_ My grandma, my grandma, my grandma, my [D] grandma, my [A] grandma, [Bm] my grandma.
_ _ [A] _ Before she passed away we'd go and visit her at my aunt's house when I was small.
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [A] I couldn't bear the shape she was in so at the top of the driveway I'd sit in [Bm] the car.
_ _ [A] _ And one day I was just fucking around when I put it in reverse and I was free falling.
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ [E] I remember [D] the car [A] moving, _ [F#m] my [E] heart was beating [D] and I [A] backed out.
[F#m] _ [E] Another car was [D] coming down [A] the street and [F#m] I told them [E]
[D] both and I got [A] knocked out.
My grandma, my grandma, my grandma, my grandma, my grandma, my [Bm] grandma.
_ _ _ [A] First time I met her she lived in L.A. I [D] think it [A] was [Bm] Huntington Park.
_ _ _ [A] I made friends with a kid named Marcelo and another kid named [Bm] Cyrus Hunt.
_ _ [A] We'd go downtown and get ice cream and eat french fries at the Pigeons and [D] talk to the
[A] handicapped [Bm] vets from [A] Vietnam.
_ [F#m] _ [E] It was the first [D] time I saw [A] a hummingbird [F#m] or a palm [E] tree [D] or a liver [A] _ [F#m] or saw an ocean
[E]
or [D] heard David [A] Bowie's Young [F#m] Americans [E] or saw the movie [D] Benji [A] in the theater.
_ My grandma, my [D] grandma, _ _ [A] my grandma, my [D] grandma, _ _ [F#m] my [E] _
_ [D] grandma, my [A] grandma.
I heard she had a pretty [D] hard [A] life _ _ but after her [D] first [A] cousin passed away she met a man
from California who treated her really nice.
My [E] grandma, my [D] grandma, _ [A] my _ grandma, my grandma, _ _ [E] my _ [D] grandma, my [A] grandma.
I [F#m] was diagnosed [E] at [A] 62.
[D] _ [A] _ _ [F#m] _ [C#m] A kid [A] stepped up [D] to play [A] for her and they were there the whole way through.
[D] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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