Chords for Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine - Country Joe & The Fish

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_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [Bm] _ Oh, [Em] how can [A] I hide from an [E] attic concealed on a shelf?
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_ I'll use the literature based on myself.
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And [A] run to gothic [D#] pages [E] like some tiny elf.
[B] Knowing _ that it's hard to find the [F#m] stuff way back in her mind.
[B] Wind up spending all of her time [F#m] trying to memorize every line.
[A] Sweet Lorraine, _ [E] _ _ _ [A] [Em] sweet [A] Lorraine, _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ [B]
[E] sweet lady of death wants me [A] to [Em] die. _
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She can [Am] come sit by [Em] my [F#m] bedside to sigh.
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_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [E] Wipe away the tears from all my friend's eyes. _
[G#m] Then softly she will explain [D] just exactly _ who [F#m] was to blame
for [G#m] causing me to go insane [F#m] and finally blow [D] out my brains.
Sweet [A]
Lorraine, _ [D] _ [E] _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ [D] _ [E] _ _ I [G] know _ [A] [Em] it's a shame and a pity [D] you raised
[F] _ [G] [D] up [Dm] in a [G] city I knew never, _
[Bm] but I'm loving my country [Em] away. _
_ Oh, my country way. _
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_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ Oh, _
[Bm] _ the [F#m] joy of [B] life, [Em] she's rather [A] than black.
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_ The [A] celestial [Em] secrets [A] engraved in her back.
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And her face keeps flashing [E] that she's got the knack.
But you [G#m] know when you look into her eyes,
[F#m] all she's had, she's had to memorize.
[A] And the [G#m] only way you'll ever get her high [D] is to let her do her thing
and then watch you die.
Sweet [A] Lorraine, _ [Bm] _ [E] [F#m] oh, [D#]
sweet [A] Lorraine.
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Oh, [A] she's the one who gives [B] us all those magical things.
[C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ She [A] reads us stories out of each [Em] cheek. _
_ _ _ _ [C#] _ And she bows [A] without a [E] hold, new vows getting ringed.
The love you put on your [B] hand makes you [F#m] one of the angel band
[G#m] and gives you the power to be a man.
[D] But what it does to her you never quite [B] understand.
[A] Sweet Lorraine, [Em] _ _ oh.
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_ Shame and a pity [D] you raised [Gm] _
[Dm] up in a city I [Em] knew never, _
[G] but I'm loving [D] my country [Em] away. _
Oh, my country way. _ _ _
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