Micheline Chords by Sun Kil Moon

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[Bm] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
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[Bm] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ Michaeline used to come to our house [D] and [C#m] knock [Bm] on our door
_ [A] _ My dad would answer and say, what do you want girl?
And she'd say, can I take a bath with [Bm] Mark?
_ _ [A] _ My dad would say, if my son ain't here, [D] send her home
And [C#m] shut the door and [Bm] we'd all laugh
_ [A] And Michaeline would walk down the street, glowing and smiling
Like she'd just gotten Paul [Bm] McCartney's order
_ _ [F#m] Her brand [E] worked [D] a little slower [A] than the [F#m] others
She [E] wore thick [D] rimmed glasses
[A] She [D] _ [F#m] [E] took a different bus to [D] school [A] than the other [F#m] kids
And was [E] in a different kind [D] of class
_ [A] _ _ _ She got [E] older in [A] the neighborhood
A thug moved in with her and started [Bm] taking her welfare
He [A] _ took her down to the bank
Helped her withdraw his savings
It was put away for her [Bm] 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 [E] life in a [A] Florida penitentiary
With [D] his father and both of them [Bm] for murder
_ _ [A] _
Michaeline, _ [D] Michaeline
_ [A] _ _
Michaeline, _ [D] _ Michaeline
[F#m] _ _
[A] Michaeline, [D] Michaeline, [A] Michaeline
She [F#m] wanted love [A] like [D] anyone [A] else _ _ _
Michaeline, Michaeline, Michaeline
She had dreams like anyone else
_ _ My friend, Brett
My friend, Brett
My friend, Brett
My friend, Brett
[D] 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 [D] shy
And 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] And a scalp and [A] he talked real slow
We [E] played [D] pool like we did in [A] our teens
[D] His head was [E] shaved and he [D] still wore a bell [A]-bottom jean
In 99 I was on tour in Sweden when [D] I [A] called [Bm] home
_ _ _ _ [A] _ Told my mom I got a part in a movie
When she said [D] Mark [A] there's something you [Bm] need to know
_ _ [A] _ Brett died the other day
You really should send a [D] letter [A] to his mom and [Bm] dad
_ And [A] I got on my train to Malmo
And looked out at the snow
Feeling somewhere [Bm] between happy and sad
_ [A] _ My friend Brett, my friend [D] Brett
[A] My friend Brett, my friend [D] Brett
[F#m] My [A] friend Brett, my [E] friend [A] Brett, my friend Brett
He had a wife and a son
My _ friend Brett, my friend Brett, my friend Brett
He just like to play guitar and he never heard anyone
My grandma, my grandma, my grandma
My grandma, my 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] I _ [A] _ _ couldn't bear the shape she was in so at the top of the driveway I'd sit in the [Bm] car
_ _ [A] _ One day I was just fucking around when I put it in reverse and I was free falling
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [F#m] I [E]
[D] remember the car [A] moving, _ _ [F#m] my [E] heart was beating [D] and I backed [A] out
[F#m] Another [E] car was [D] coming [A] down the street and I told them [E]
[D] both and I got [A] knocked down
_ My grandma, my grandma, my grandma, my grandma, my grandma, my [Bm] grandma
_ _ [A] _ First time I met her she lived in LA, I [D] think it [A] was Huntington [Bm] Park
I _ [A] _ made friends with a kid named Marceau and another kid named Cyrus [Bm] Hall
_ [A] We'd go downtown and get ice cream and feed french fries to the pigeons
and [D] talk to the [A]
handicapped [Bm] vats from Vietnam
[A] _ [F#m] It [E] was the first time [D] I saw [A] her, [F#m] her palm [E] tree [D] or her liver
[A] I [F#m] saw an ocean, [E]
I [D] heard David [A] Bowie's Young [F#m] Americans
and I [E] saw the movie [D] Benji [A] in the theater
My grandma, my [D] grandma, _ _ [A] my grandma, my [D] grandma, _ _ [F#m] my [A] grandma, _ [D] [A] my grandma
I heard she had a pretty [D] heart
[A] but _ [F#m] _ [A] after her [D] first cousin [A] 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, [A] my grandma
[F#m] I was [E] diagnosed at [D] 62, _ [A] _ _ [F#m] her [C#m] kids stepped [D] up to play [A] for her and they were there the whole way [D] through
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _