Chords for Richard Shindell - Ballad of Mary Magdalen

Well, I'd like to invite my good friend, the corporate spirit, Ruthie to play some music.
Here's the song, too. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Turn that on, please.
[C#] _ _ [G#] _
_ _ _ Surprise _ [F] me.
_ _ [C#] Go ahead, I'm going to paint my hair.
_ _ _ [G#] _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _
[A#m] I'd like to say that this song [G#] was written [F#] about [C#] ten years before you came out.
[F#] It has nothing to do with that particular piece of work.
_ [C#] _ _ I did have a [G#] brief moment of [F#] glory as a result of [C#] this, singing it in [A#m] that book.
[G#] Written in the midst of the [F#] emos of [C#] that [A#m] whole craze.
[G#] It was ABC, [F#] you know, special _ [C#] thing.
[A#m] _ [G#] I'm not watching it, you [F#] know.
_ [C#] _ [A#m] And all of a sudden, [G#] this song [F#] appears in the background.
[C#] _ Darby Lane singing.
[G#]
From a [F#] version [C#] that we did on a record Lucy and Beauty Dar
[A#m] _ [G#] _ _
[F#] did [C#] on a [A#m] record called Cry Cry [G#m] Cry. _
[F#m] Darby's [C#] _ singing this song, and I'm [G#] singing it to you.
[F#] _ [C#] _ _ So I'm [G#m] watching this thing, and I almost fell off the [F#] couch.
[C#] Luckily, it was a particularly [A#m] comfortable couch.
[C#] I didn't fall off it.
[A#m] _ _ [G#] My introduction is going on much longer than I thought.
[A] _
[G#] I've already started playing, and I can't very well stop now.
_ [C#] Anyway, so I [G#] started [F#] thinking about the [C#] ramifications of this.
Everything I thought centered [G#] around [C#] money. _ _ _
[G#] That was my thought.
[F#] That's right, I started thinking, [C#] this could be good. _
[G#] So I called my agent, my [F#] manager the next day.
[C#] I said, [G#] is [C#] there [F#] any chance I might make some money from this?
He [C#] said, maybe.
So he checked it out, [G#] called me back a couple [F#] days later,
and he [C#] said, you won't make anything.
I said, why?
He said, because [G#m] there's this law [F#] that [C#] says that if they only use, _
[G#] they use less than, I think [F#] it's 20 seconds on the [C#] song.
I'm just making that up.
Some number like that.
[G#] They don't have to [F#] pay you.
And [C#] they use one [A#m] second less. _
[G#] _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] That's terrible.
[G#] _
Our copyright board didn't [F#] match.
_ And [C#] here it is.
[F#] _ [C#] _ [A#m] Things [F#] very hard to learn, _ _ [G#] I come from [C#] Palestine.
[F#] _
[G#] _ [C#] _ _ [A#m] These [F#] excuse, these right signs, _ that [G#] I've found on [C#] hard times.
[F#m] _
[C#] _ [F#] _ [D#m] Long ago, [F#] I [C#] had my work, [F#] when [D#m] I was [G#] in my prime.
[F#] _
[C#] _ I gave it [F#] up, and all for love.
It's [G#] his career, [C#] or mine. _
_ [A#m] Jesus [G#] _ [F#] loved me, [C#] this I know.
[F#] Why on earth, [D#m] did I ever [G#] let him go?
[A#m] He was _ [G#] always [F#] faithful, he was [C#]
always [F#] kind.
We walked off with [G#] this part [C#] of my [A#m] _ _ [G#] name.
[F#] _ _ [C#] _
_ [A#m] _ _ [G#] _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#]
A [A#m] love like [F#] this will come once. _
[G#] This I do [C#] believe.
_ [F#] _ [G#] _ [C#] _
I'll not [F#] see his light again, [F#m] _ _
[G#] as I live [C#] and breathe.
_ _ [F#]
I'm [G#] sorry [F#] if I [C#] might offend.
[F#]
I [D#m] _ [G#] will never [F#] see.
[G#] _ [C#]
How the [F#] kindness that I shared with [G#] him, [F#m] _
_ [G#] became [C#] heresy.
_ _ [Fm] _ [A#m] _
[G#] Jesus [F#] loved me, [C#] this I [F#] know.
Why on [D#m] earth, did I [G#] ever let him go?
[A#m]
He was [G#] always [F#] faithful, he was [C#] always [F#] kind.
We [D#m] walked off with [G#] this part [C#] of my _ _ name.
[G#] _ [F#] _ [C#] _ _ _
_ [G#] _ _ [F#] _ [C#] _ _ I never [F#] meant to spit, _ _ [G#] or scream, [C#] or cringe.
[F#] _ [G#] _ [C#] Our _ [F#] ritual, our sacrament, _ _ [G#]
starts [C#] out caffeine.
_ [F#] _ [G#] There beneath [F#] an [C#] olive [D#m] tree, [F#] we offer [G#] up our [F#] tea.
[G#] _ [C#] _ _
God's [F#] creation, in his hands, _ [G#] in his arms, [C#] surround me.
_ _ [A#m] _ [G#] Jesus [F#] loved me, [C#] this I [F#] know.
Why on [D#m] earth, did he ever [G#] let him go?
[A#m] He was [G#] always [F#] faithful, he [C#] was always [F#] kind.
We walked [D#m] off with [G#] this part [C#] of [G#] my name.
[A#m] He was [G#] always faithful, [F#] he was [C#] always [F#] kind.
We walked [D#m] off with [G#] this part [C#] of my [A#m] name. _
[G#] _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _
[G#] _ [F#] _ [C#] _ [G#] _ [C#] _ _ _ _
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