Mistress Of The Salmon Salt Chords by Blue Oyster Cult

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_ In the garden [F] district, _
_ [C] where the plants [G] grow strong and [Ab] tall.
[Bb] _ Behind the bush [A] there lurks a girl, [Ab] who makes them strong [Gm] and tall.
[F] _ [G] _ They just call her _ [C] _
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [G] Bush.
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_ [Gm] _ _ _ [D] She's the mistress of the salmon _ [C] salt.
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_ [G] _ [Gm] In the fall, [F] when plants return, [C] all the time [G] she knows the score.
_ [Bb] Rapping red [A] to the [Ab] eye, and rocking _ [G] somehow to the [Dm] _ [Gm] core.
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[C] _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] Behind the [G] back, _
[C] _ [Bb] _ _ behind the [G] bush. _
[C] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [D] She's the mistress of the salmon salt.
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_ _ _ Harvest the life, [Db] harvest the [C] death.
Nobody alive, [Gm] _
nobody dead.
_ They've [D] gone and [Db]
choked to [C] death.
They're lapped up in [Gm] the little cell.
_ I'm free [D] [Db] girl, I'm free now, friend.
[C] Oh, you're rapping red and [Gm] grey.
_ _ [Cm] Oh, you're rapping [F] red [Gm] and grey.
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[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] It's _
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_ _ [Gm] springtime [F] now, and chaos inside.
[C] And the plantings are [G] moolahed. _
_ [Bb] And bird of prey, [A] it seems, is just [Ab] within a mile of that [G] blue door. _
_ But those [B] guys still [Bb] take [C] that.
_ She's faceless in [F] the sun.
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[Bb] And she's a clown girl, [A] with that eyes of trade.
[Ab] Redemption number, many [G] from the war. _
_ _ And they call her, _ [C] _
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ [D] she's the mistress of the salmon _ [C] salt.
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_ _ Harvest the life, [Db] harvest the death.
[C] The spoon gets caught [Gm] each day.
_ _ It comes as if [Db] by schedule.
_ [C] _ Harvest the limb, [Gm] of all [Bb] the _ [G] _ tools that [Db] crawl.
And she's a [C] jerk, and that's like what [Gm] _ she's done.
_ Harvesting [Db] the clime, [C] to kill.
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