Am                        G
I've watched her from the river banks

Dm                  Em 
I knew her when she danced with dreams

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White doves were there to dress her hair

Bb               E
And so was Madelaine

Am                    G
At night the people's faces danced

Dm                    Em 
Like pearls colliding on the breast

Bb                  Am
Of fat Marie whose thunder laugh

E                      Am 
Was just a thread from crying



F                       C
Her sailors stained her cobblestones

     F        Em       F      G  
With wine and piss and death desire

 F                      C          
And sometimes blood for Madelaine

Bb                     E
Whose laughter was the night

A                          G 
Her girls would lift their dresses high

    D           C         D         C               
and breathe the stars and kiss the sky

A                       G
She'd smother them with whispers then

F                    E
Embrace them with her sighs



Am                G
Before the bottle dulled my eyes

Dm               Em
And made me so I couldn't stand

Bb              Am
I'd overact and play the clown

E                    Am
When Madelaine would cry



F                    C
And now I watch from riverbanks

F          Em         F      G 
I watch it weave it's memories

F                           C
White doves turned gray and flew away

E                Am
And so did Madelaine