Play Me Backwards Chords by Joan Baez

[G#] _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ [G#m] _ _
_ [C#] _ [G#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ You don't have to play me backwards to get the meaning of my verse.
You don't have to die and go to hell to feel the [G#m] devil's kiss. _ _
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_ _ All I thought my life was a photograph [C#m] on the family [G#m] Christmas card.
Kids all dressed in buttons and bows and lined up in the [C#m] yard.
Were the golden [G#m] days of [C#m] childhood so miracle [G#m] and warm?
[C#m] Or did the pictures [B] start to fade on [A] the day that I [G#m] was born? _
[F#] I've seen [G#m] my candle. _
[F#] I've [G#m] heard _ _ _ _ [F#] and I've [E] cried mama, mama, and all [C#] is _ warm.
[A] And I got no [G#m] place to go.
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_ _ _ _ Let the night begin with a pop of skin and a sudden rush of sun.
There's a little boy riding on a goat's head and a little girl playing card.
There's a sacrifice in an empty church, a sweet little baby rose,
and [C#m] a man in a mask [B] from Mexico.
_ He's [A] a peeling off [G#m] my clothes.
_ [F#] I've seen [G#m] my _ candle.
And [F#] I've heard [G#m] and _ [C#] _
_ [G#m] _ _ [F#] I've cried [G#m] mama, mama, and [C#] cold as ice.
And [A] I got no [C#m] place to go.
[G#m] _ [A] _ _ [B] _ _ [C#m] _
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ [G#m] _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ [G#m] _ _ [F#] _ [C#] _ [D] _
[G#] _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ So I'm paying [G#] for protection, smoking out the truth,
chasing _ recollections, _ nailing down the clues. _ _ _ _ _
[G#m] Don't have to play me [C#m] backwards to get the meaning of my [G#m] verse.
You don't have to die in God or hell to feel the devil's curse.
And [C#m] I'll stand [G#m] before your altar and tell everything I know.
[C#m] I've come to claim [B] my childhood _ at [A] the chapel of [G#m] baby rose. _ _ _ _ _
[F#] I've seen [G#m] my _ candle. _
[C#m] And I've heard [B] _ _ [G#m] _ _ _
[F#] my [E] singing like _ [G#m] _ _
_ [F#] _ _ [G#] _ _ a rose.
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