Song: Motherland
Artist: Natalie Merchant
Capo: 2nd fret
Tuning: standard


How to play: first hit lowest bass-string you should play on the chord, then the 
chord complety twice. Just listen to the track, it's really easy.



Intro: Em

Verse 1:
Em (022000@1)                   G (320003@1)C (x32010@1)                          GWhere (320003@1)in hell can you go, far from the things that you know,
C (x32010@1)                        G (320003@1)                             DFar (xx0232@1)from this sprawl of concrete that keeps crawling it's way,
                         Em'Bout (022000@1)a thousand miles a day.


Verse2:
Em (022000@1)                   G (320003@1)C (x32010@1)                          GTake (320003@1)one last look behind, commit this to memory and mind,
C (x32010@1)                        G (320003@1)                             DDon't (xx0232@1)miss this wasteland, this terrible place, when you leave,
                         EmKeep (022000@1)your heart off your sleeve.


Chorus:
G (320003@1)               D (xx0232@1)          C (x32010@1)                 GMotherland (320003@1)cradle me, close my eyes lullaby me to sleep,
         C (x32010@1)                   G (320003@1)           DKeep (xx0232@1)me safe, lie with me -- stay beside me don't go, don't you go


Verse 3:
Em (022000@1)                   G (320003@1)C (x32010@1)                          GMy (320003@1)five and dime queen, tell me what have you seen,
C (x32010@1)                        G (320003@1)                             DThe (xx0232@1)lust and the avarice the bottomless, the cavernous greed,
                         EmIs (022000@1)that what you see?


Chorus
ATTENTION: replace the "don't you go" with the start of the bridge:


Bridge:
C (x32010@1)                         G (320003@1)          
It's your happiness -- I want most of all
C (x32010@1)                Am (x02210@1)         DAnd (xx0232@1)for that I'd do anything at all. Oh mercy me.
                 C (x32010@1)              GIf (320003@1)you want the best of life and the most of love, 
C (x32010@1)                  Am (x02210@1)        DIf (xx0232@1)there is anything I can do at all.


Chorus: INSTRUMENTAL - G, D, C, G, C, G, D


Verse 4:
Em (022000@1)                   G (320003@1)C (x32010@1)                          GNow, (320003@1)Come on shotgun bride, what makes me envy your life,
C (x32010@1)                        G (320003@1)                             DThe (xx0232@1)faceless the nameless the innocent the blameless and free,
                    EmWhat's (022000@1)that like to be?
   
                                      D (xx0232@1)          EmFirst (022000@1)chorus 2x; end final time with: Don't go  .. Don't go  



Enjoy!
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