Chords for C.W. Stoneking - The Love Me or Die - 9/25/2019 - Paste Studio NYC - New York, NY

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_ _ [Eb] _ [A] I [Bb] studied evil [Ebm] I can't deny, for the hoodoo charm call they [Bb] love me or die, [A] some fingernail, a piece of her dress, a [Bb] pocket theory [Ebm] devil she has.
[Eb] Now I will relate, the [B] piteous consequence of my [Bb] mistake, [A] fallen [Bb] slave to passing desire, making it ready love me or die.
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_ _ _ [A] Against the jungle [Ebm]
primeval green, she [Bb] had a look of a beauty queen, no bangle or chain, wearing broken shoe, seventy-five cent [Ebm] bottle perfume, I said good morning, I tipped my hat, all the while I was [E] cunning like a rat, [D] [Gm] smiling gaily looked her in the eye, I [Bb] felt in my pocket [Ebm] they love me or die. _
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] past history one to behold, I studied magic [A] from days of old, [Bb] membership secret [E] society, [Eb] power and wealth in my [Ebm]
family,
Von Matilda, darling, why you don't take [Bb] my wedding ring, like [Gm] a demon under the floor, bury the hoodoo down the [Ebm] back door.
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_ Lord, [Ebm] _ [Eb] word broke through the [Ebm] town, the fever [A] strike Matilda [Bb] down, nine thirty the doctor arrived, priest come [Ebm] running quarter to five, standing in the weeds early next day, I see Nick [B] meat wagon [Bb] rolling away, I see Matilda laid in the back, her old mother wearing a suit of [A] black.
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_ [Ebm] Sound the [E] trumpet [Ebm] and bang the drum, [D]
I wait [A] for my judgment [Bb] to come, I know her spirit [Bb] is down beneath, I hear her weeping [Ebm] and gnashing of the teeth, flame of hell leaks at my feet, in the shadow of the [A] jungle I feel the heat, Matilda's waiting in hell for me too, all cause she died from a [Ebm] bad hoodoo.
[Eb] I'm not a dead man, I'm [Ebm] _
not a [Bbm] dead man, [Bb] _
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] dead man, I'm [Am] not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a dead man, I'm not a
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