Mother Of God Chords by Patty Griffin

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_ _ All you kids get out the back door _ [F] I've never seen her this mad before
[C] _ Took all her favorite things down from the window And broke them [G] all over her clean floor
It's [C] Saturday at the mansion _ [F] The oldest boy walks with a slouch
[Am] _ The young ones are wild in [C] back of the house And she gave up and went back to sleep on the couch
_ _ _ [F] Something as simple as boys [Am] and girls _ Gets [G] _ _ tossed all around and lost in [A] the [D] world
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Something as hard as a prayer [Am] on your back _ Wait _ [G] a long time _ _ _ for [Am]
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I was little I'd stare at her picture _ Then [F] talk to the mother of God
_ I [C] swear sometimes I'd see her lips move [G] Like she was trying to say something [C] to me
When I was eighteen I moved to Florida _ [F] Like everyone's sick of the cold does
[C] And I waited on old people waiting to die Oh I [G] waited on them until I was
_ _ _ _ _ [F] Something as simple as boys _ and [G] girls _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] Gets tossed all around and lost in [Am] the world
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] Something as hard as a prayer [Am] on your back Wait _ _ [G] a long time _ _ _ for [Am] an _ _ answer
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So I'm wearing my footsteps into this floor _ [F] One day I won't live here anymore
_ [C] _ Someone will wonder who lived here before _ [G] And went on their way _ _ _
[Em] I live [G] too many miles from the ocean [C] And [F] I'm getting older [Am] and I
[C] I get up every morning with my cup of coffee And I talk to [G] the mother of God
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ Something as simple as boys _ [C] and girls _ _ _ _ [G] Gets tossed all around and lost [A] in the [G] world
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [F] Something as hard as a prayer on [C] your back _ _ _ Wait [G] a long time _ for _ _ [Am]
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[Am] we won't _ [C] fight [G] anymore
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