Chords for The Curse of Millhaven (2011 - Remaster)
Tempo:
135.8 bpm
Chords used:
Am
Dm
C
A
G
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[C#] [G]
[A]
[E]
I live in [Am] a town called Millhaven, and it's small, and it's mean, and [Dm] it's cold.
But if you come around, just as the sun goes down, [A] you can watch the whole thing turn [Am] to gold.
[G] It's around then that I used to go a-roamin'.
[C] La la la la la, la [Am] la la la [Dm] la.
Oh, God's children, they [Am] all gotta die.
My name is Loretta, but I prefer Lottie.
I'm closing in on my [D] fifteenth year.
If you think that you've seen [Dm] a pair of eyes more green, then you sure haven't seen them [Am] around here.
Well, [G] my hair is a-yellow, and I'm always a [C]-comin'.
La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] My mama told me [Am] that we all got to die.
You must have heard about the curse of Millhaven.
How last Christmas Bill Blakey's little boy didn't come home.
They found him the next week up in One Mile Creek, with his head bashed in and his [Am] thighs
full of stones.
Well, [G] just imagine all the waitin' and [C] moanin'.
La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[A] Even Bill Blakey's [Am] boy, he had to die.
Then Professor O'Rye from Millhaven High found Neil to his door, his [A] prize of an interior.
The next day the old fool brought little Biko to school, and we all had to watch as he buried her.
Well, [G] there's the eulogy to Biko, and all the tears flowin'.
[C] La la [C] la la la, la [Am] la la la la.
[Dm] Even God's little creatures, they have to die.
Our little town fell into a state of shock.
A lot of people were sayin' things that made little sense.
The next thing you know, the head of Handyman [D] Joe was found in the fountain of the mayor's residence.
Well, [G] now they can really get a small town goin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] Even God's children, [Am] they have to die.
Then a cruel twist of fate.
[A] Old Mrs.
Colgate was stabbed, but the job was not complete.
Well, the last thing she said before the cops pronounced her dead was,
My [Dm] killer is Loretta, [A] and she lives across the street.
Oh, [G] twenty cops burst through my door without even t'ownin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
The [Dm] young ones and the old ones, [Am] they all got to die.
Yes, it is I, Lottie, the curse of Millhaven.
I've struck horror in the heart [A] of this town.
Like my eyes ain't green and my hair ain't yellow, it's more like the other way around.
I got [G] a pretty little mouth underneath all the [C] foaming.
La la la la la, la la la la la.
Sooner or [A] later, we all got to [Am] die.
Since I was no bigger than a weeble, they've been sayin' I was evil.
That if Ed was a boot, then I'd [Dm] fit it.
That I'm a wicked young lady, but I've been tryin' hard lately.
Oh, fuck it, I'm a mumpsker, [Am] I admit it.
Well, [G] it makes me so mad that my blood stops a-goin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
Mama [A] always told me that we all got to die.
Well, yeah, I drowned the Bailey kid, stabbed Mrs.
Colgate, I admit.
Dipped that handyman with his circular saw in his garden shed.
But I never crucified little Fico, that was from junior [Dm] high school cycles.
Stinky bohun and his friend [Am] with a pumpkin-sized head.
[G] I've seen the last of you, now that you've got me goin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] All God's [Am] children have all got to die.
Then there are all of the others, all [A] our sisters and brothers,
you assume were accidents best [Dm] forgotten.
Recall the children who broke through the ice on Lake Tahoe.
Everyone assumed the warning signs and [Am] followed them to the bottom.
[G] Well, they're underneath the house where I do quite a bit of [C] stowin'.
La la la la la, [Am] la la la la [Dm] la.
Even twenty little [Am] children, now they had to die.
And the fire in 91 that razed the Bella Vista slum,
that [A] was the biggest shit fight this country's ever seen.
Insurance companies ruined, landlords getting sued,
all because of a wee little girl with a can of gasoline.
[G] Those flames, they roared when the wind started blowin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] Well, the rich man and the poor [Am] man, they all got to die.
[A] Well, I confessed to all these crimes and they [A] put me on trial.
I was [Am] laughing when they took me [D] away,
off to the asylum in an old black Mariah.
Well, it ain't home, but you know it's better than [A] jail.
[G] It ain't such a bad old place to have a home [C] in.
La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
All God's children, they all got to die.
Now I got shrinks that [A] will not rest with their endless Rorschach tests.
I keep telling them that I think they're out [Dm] to get me.
They ask me if I fear remorse, and I answer why I curse.
There's so much more I could have done if they'd [Am] let me.
So is [G] Rorschach and Prozac and everything is groovy.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] yes la la la la.
[Dm] But all God's children, [Am] they all had to die.
La la [C] la la la, la la la la.
[Dm] I'm happy as a log [Am] now and everything is fine.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la.
[Dm] Everything is groovy, [Am] everything is fine.
[C] La la la la [Am] la, la la la la.
[Dm] But all God's [Am] children, they got to die.
[A]
[E]
I live in [Am] a town called Millhaven, and it's small, and it's mean, and [Dm] it's cold.
But if you come around, just as the sun goes down, [A] you can watch the whole thing turn [Am] to gold.
[G] It's around then that I used to go a-roamin'.
[C] La la la la la, la [Am] la la la [Dm] la.
Oh, God's children, they [Am] all gotta die.
My name is Loretta, but I prefer Lottie.
I'm closing in on my [D] fifteenth year.
If you think that you've seen [Dm] a pair of eyes more green, then you sure haven't seen them [Am] around here.
Well, [G] my hair is a-yellow, and I'm always a [C]-comin'.
La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] My mama told me [Am] that we all got to die.
You must have heard about the curse of Millhaven.
How last Christmas Bill Blakey's little boy didn't come home.
They found him the next week up in One Mile Creek, with his head bashed in and his [Am] thighs
full of stones.
Well, [G] just imagine all the waitin' and [C] moanin'.
La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[A] Even Bill Blakey's [Am] boy, he had to die.
Then Professor O'Rye from Millhaven High found Neil to his door, his [A] prize of an interior.
The next day the old fool brought little Biko to school, and we all had to watch as he buried her.
Well, [G] there's the eulogy to Biko, and all the tears flowin'.
[C] La la [C] la la la, la [Am] la la la la.
[Dm] Even God's little creatures, they have to die.
Our little town fell into a state of shock.
A lot of people were sayin' things that made little sense.
The next thing you know, the head of Handyman [D] Joe was found in the fountain of the mayor's residence.
Well, [G] now they can really get a small town goin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] Even God's children, [Am] they have to die.
Then a cruel twist of fate.
[A] Old Mrs.
Colgate was stabbed, but the job was not complete.
Well, the last thing she said before the cops pronounced her dead was,
My [Dm] killer is Loretta, [A] and she lives across the street.
Oh, [G] twenty cops burst through my door without even t'ownin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
The [Dm] young ones and the old ones, [Am] they all got to die.
Yes, it is I, Lottie, the curse of Millhaven.
I've struck horror in the heart [A] of this town.
Like my eyes ain't green and my hair ain't yellow, it's more like the other way around.
I got [G] a pretty little mouth underneath all the [C] foaming.
La la la la la, la la la la la.
Sooner or [A] later, we all got to [Am] die.
Since I was no bigger than a weeble, they've been sayin' I was evil.
That if Ed was a boot, then I'd [Dm] fit it.
That I'm a wicked young lady, but I've been tryin' hard lately.
Oh, fuck it, I'm a mumpsker, [Am] I admit it.
Well, [G] it makes me so mad that my blood stops a-goin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
Mama [A] always told me that we all got to die.
Well, yeah, I drowned the Bailey kid, stabbed Mrs.
Colgate, I admit.
Dipped that handyman with his circular saw in his garden shed.
But I never crucified little Fico, that was from junior [Dm] high school cycles.
Stinky bohun and his friend [Am] with a pumpkin-sized head.
[G] I've seen the last of you, now that you've got me goin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] All God's [Am] children have all got to die.
Then there are all of the others, all [A] our sisters and brothers,
you assume were accidents best [Dm] forgotten.
Recall the children who broke through the ice on Lake Tahoe.
Everyone assumed the warning signs and [Am] followed them to the bottom.
[G] Well, they're underneath the house where I do quite a bit of [C] stowin'.
La la la la la, [Am] la la la la [Dm] la.
Even twenty little [Am] children, now they had to die.
And the fire in 91 that razed the Bella Vista slum,
that [A] was the biggest shit fight this country's ever seen.
Insurance companies ruined, landlords getting sued,
all because of a wee little girl with a can of gasoline.
[G] Those flames, they roared when the wind started blowin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] Well, the rich man and the poor [Am] man, they all got to die.
[A] Well, I confessed to all these crimes and they [A] put me on trial.
I was [Am] laughing when they took me [D] away,
off to the asylum in an old black Mariah.
Well, it ain't home, but you know it's better than [A] jail.
[G] It ain't such a bad old place to have a home [C] in.
La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
All God's children, they all got to die.
Now I got shrinks that [A] will not rest with their endless Rorschach tests.
I keep telling them that I think they're out [Dm] to get me.
They ask me if I fear remorse, and I answer why I curse.
There's so much more I could have done if they'd [Am] let me.
So is [G] Rorschach and Prozac and everything is groovy.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] yes la la la la.
[Dm] But all God's children, [Am] they all had to die.
La la [C] la la la, la la la la.
[Dm] I'm happy as a log [Am] now and everything is fine.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la.
[Dm] Everything is groovy, [Am] everything is fine.
[C] La la la la [Am] la, la la la la.
[Dm] But all God's [Am] children, they got to die.
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I live in [Am] a town called Millhaven, and it's small, and it's mean, and [Dm] it's cold.
But if you come around, just as the sun goes down, [A] you can watch the whole thing turn [Am] to gold.
_ [G] It's around then that I used to go a-roamin'.
[C] La la la la la, la [Am] la la la [Dm] la.
Oh, God's children, they [Am] all gotta _ die. _ _ _ _
My name is Loretta, but I prefer Lottie.
I'm closing in on my [D] fifteenth year.
If you think that you've seen [Dm] a pair of eyes more green, then you sure haven't seen them [Am] around here.
Well, [G] my hair is a-yellow, and I'm always a [C]-comin'.
La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] My mama told me [Am] that we all got to _ die. _ _ _
You must have heard about the curse of Millhaven.
How last Christmas Bill Blakey's little boy didn't come home.
They found him the next week up in One Mile Creek, with his head bashed in and his [Am] thighs
full of stones.
Well, [G] just imagine all the waitin' and [C] moanin'.
La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[A] Even Bill Blakey's [Am] boy, he had to die.
_ _ _ Then Professor O'Rye from Millhaven High found Neil to his door, his [A] prize of an interior.
The next day the old fool brought little Biko to school, and we all had to watch as he buried her.
Well, [G] there's the eulogy to Biko, and all the tears flowin'.
[C] La la [C] la la la, la [Am] la la la la.
[Dm] Even God's little creatures, they have to die.
_ _ _ _ _ Our little town fell into a state of shock.
_ A lot of people were sayin' things that made little sense.
The next thing you know, the head of Handyman [D] Joe was found in the fountain of the mayor's residence.
Well, [G] now they can really get a small town goin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] Even God's children, [Am] they have to _ die.
Then _ _ a cruel twist of fate.
[A] Old Mrs.
Colgate was stabbed, but the job was not complete.
Well, the last thing she said before the cops pronounced her dead was,
My [Dm] killer is Loretta, [A] and she lives across the street.
Oh, [G] twenty cops burst through my door without even t'ownin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
The [Dm] young ones and the old ones, [Am] they all got to die.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Yes, it is I, Lottie, the curse of Millhaven.
I've struck horror in the heart [A] of this town.
Like my eyes ain't green and my hair ain't yellow, it's more like the other way around.
I got [G] a pretty little mouth underneath all the [C] foaming.
La la la la la, la la la la la.
Sooner or [A] later, we all got to [Am] _ die.
_ _ _ Since I was no bigger than a weeble, they've been sayin' I was evil.
That if Ed was a boot, then I'd [Dm] fit it.
That I'm a wicked young lady, but I've been tryin' hard lately.
Oh, fuck it, I'm a mumpsker, [Am] I admit it.
Well, [G] it makes me so mad that my blood stops a-goin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
Mama [A] always told me that we all got to die. _
_ _ _ Well, yeah, I drowned the Bailey kid, stabbed Mrs.
Colgate, I admit.
Dipped that handyman with his circular saw in his garden shed.
But I never crucified little Fico, that was from junior [Dm] high school cycles.
Stinky bohun and his friend [Am] with a pumpkin-sized head.
[G] I've seen the last of you, now that you've got me goin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] All God's [Am] children have all got to die. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Then there are all of the others, all [A] our sisters and brothers,
you assume were accidents best [Dm] forgotten.
_ Recall the children who broke through the ice on Lake Tahoe.
Everyone assumed the warning signs and [Am] followed them to the bottom.
[G] Well, they're underneath the house where I do quite a bit of [C] stowin'.
La la la la la, [Am] la la la la [Dm] la.
Even twenty little [Am] children, now they had to die. _
_ _ _ And the fire in 91 that razed the Bella Vista slum,
that [A] was the biggest shit fight this country's ever seen.
Insurance companies ruined, landlords getting sued,
all because of a wee little girl with a can of gasoline.
[G] Those flames, they roared when the wind started blowin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] Well, the rich man and the poor [Am] man, they all got to die. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ Well, I confessed to all these crimes and they [A] put me on trial.
I was [Am] laughing when they took me [D] away,
_ off to the asylum in an old black Mariah.
Well, it ain't home, but you know it's better than [A] jail.
_ [G] It ain't such a bad old place to have a home [C] in.
La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
All God's children, they all got to die. _ _
_ _ Now I got shrinks that [A] will not rest with their endless Rorschach tests.
I keep telling them that I think they're out [Dm] to get me.
They ask me if I fear remorse, and I answer why I curse.
There's so much more I could have done if they'd [Am] let me.
So is [G] Rorschach and Prozac and everything is groovy.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] yes la la la la.
[Dm] But all God's children, [Am] they all had to die.
_ La la [C] la la la, la la la la.
[Dm] I'm happy as a log [Am] now and everything is fine.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la.
[Dm] Everything is groovy, [Am] everything is fine.
[C] La la la la [Am] la, la la la la.
[Dm] But all God's [Am] children, they got to die. _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I live in [Am] a town called Millhaven, and it's small, and it's mean, and [Dm] it's cold.
But if you come around, just as the sun goes down, [A] you can watch the whole thing turn [Am] to gold.
_ [G] It's around then that I used to go a-roamin'.
[C] La la la la la, la [Am] la la la [Dm] la.
Oh, God's children, they [Am] all gotta _ die. _ _ _ _
My name is Loretta, but I prefer Lottie.
I'm closing in on my [D] fifteenth year.
If you think that you've seen [Dm] a pair of eyes more green, then you sure haven't seen them [Am] around here.
Well, [G] my hair is a-yellow, and I'm always a [C]-comin'.
La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] My mama told me [Am] that we all got to _ die. _ _ _
You must have heard about the curse of Millhaven.
How last Christmas Bill Blakey's little boy didn't come home.
They found him the next week up in One Mile Creek, with his head bashed in and his [Am] thighs
full of stones.
Well, [G] just imagine all the waitin' and [C] moanin'.
La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[A] Even Bill Blakey's [Am] boy, he had to die.
_ _ _ Then Professor O'Rye from Millhaven High found Neil to his door, his [A] prize of an interior.
The next day the old fool brought little Biko to school, and we all had to watch as he buried her.
Well, [G] there's the eulogy to Biko, and all the tears flowin'.
[C] La la [C] la la la, la [Am] la la la la.
[Dm] Even God's little creatures, they have to die.
_ _ _ _ _ Our little town fell into a state of shock.
_ A lot of people were sayin' things that made little sense.
The next thing you know, the head of Handyman [D] Joe was found in the fountain of the mayor's residence.
Well, [G] now they can really get a small town goin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] Even God's children, [Am] they have to _ die.
Then _ _ a cruel twist of fate.
[A] Old Mrs.
Colgate was stabbed, but the job was not complete.
Well, the last thing she said before the cops pronounced her dead was,
My [Dm] killer is Loretta, [A] and she lives across the street.
Oh, [G] twenty cops burst through my door without even t'ownin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
The [Dm] young ones and the old ones, [Am] they all got to die.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Yes, it is I, Lottie, the curse of Millhaven.
I've struck horror in the heart [A] of this town.
Like my eyes ain't green and my hair ain't yellow, it's more like the other way around.
I got [G] a pretty little mouth underneath all the [C] foaming.
La la la la la, la la la la la.
Sooner or [A] later, we all got to [Am] _ die.
_ _ _ Since I was no bigger than a weeble, they've been sayin' I was evil.
That if Ed was a boot, then I'd [Dm] fit it.
That I'm a wicked young lady, but I've been tryin' hard lately.
Oh, fuck it, I'm a mumpsker, [Am] I admit it.
Well, [G] it makes me so mad that my blood stops a-goin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
Mama [A] always told me that we all got to die. _
_ _ _ Well, yeah, I drowned the Bailey kid, stabbed Mrs.
Colgate, I admit.
Dipped that handyman with his circular saw in his garden shed.
But I never crucified little Fico, that was from junior [Dm] high school cycles.
Stinky bohun and his friend [Am] with a pumpkin-sized head.
[G] I've seen the last of you, now that you've got me goin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] All God's [Am] children have all got to die. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Then there are all of the others, all [A] our sisters and brothers,
you assume were accidents best [Dm] forgotten.
_ Recall the children who broke through the ice on Lake Tahoe.
Everyone assumed the warning signs and [Am] followed them to the bottom.
[G] Well, they're underneath the house where I do quite a bit of [C] stowin'.
La la la la la, [Am] la la la la [Dm] la.
Even twenty little [Am] children, now they had to die. _
_ _ _ And the fire in 91 that razed the Bella Vista slum,
that [A] was the biggest shit fight this country's ever seen.
Insurance companies ruined, landlords getting sued,
all because of a wee little girl with a can of gasoline.
[G] Those flames, they roared when the wind started blowin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] Well, the rich man and the poor [Am] man, they all got to die. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ Well, I confessed to all these crimes and they [A] put me on trial.
I was [Am] laughing when they took me [D] away,
_ off to the asylum in an old black Mariah.
Well, it ain't home, but you know it's better than [A] jail.
_ [G] It ain't such a bad old place to have a home [C] in.
La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
All God's children, they all got to die. _ _
_ _ Now I got shrinks that [A] will not rest with their endless Rorschach tests.
I keep telling them that I think they're out [Dm] to get me.
They ask me if I fear remorse, and I answer why I curse.
There's so much more I could have done if they'd [Am] let me.
So is [G] Rorschach and Prozac and everything is groovy.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] yes la la la la.
[Dm] But all God's children, [Am] they all had to die.
_ La la [C] la la la, la la la la.
[Dm] I'm happy as a log [Am] now and everything is fine.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la.
[Dm] Everything is groovy, [Am] everything is fine.
[C] La la la la [Am] la, la la la la.
[Dm] But all God's [Am] children, they got to die. _