Chords for Elkie Brooks - Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar

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_ [C] _ _ _ Bread [F] in the ghetto [C] with my faith in the sea man, heard the last moan of a boxer, seen the massacre of the innocent, heard a rhyme for the light switch, heard a rhyme for his face, been treated like a farm animal on a wild goose [F] chase, [Bb] west of the [F] Georgia, east of the [C] Rock of [Cm] Gibraltar.
I _ _ [G] see a turning of a page, [F]
curtain [Cm] rising on a new age, _ jail [C] waiting at the _ _ [Gm] [Cm] altar, _ _ _
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[Cm] _ _ _ [C] _ trying to be pure at heart, they arrest you for robbery, _ mistake your shyness for aloofness, your silence for snobbery,
got the message this morning, the one that was sent to me, about the madness of becoming, what was never meant to [Cm] [Bb] be, west of the Georgia, [F] east of the [C] Rock of [Gm] Gibraltar. _ _
[Cm] _ _ [G] I see a turning of a page, [F]
curtain rising on a new [C] age, [Eb] the bruised jail waiting at [C] the _ _ _ [Cm] altar, _ _
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[Gm] don't _ _ [C] _ know what I can say about Onett, that wouldn't come back to haunt me, I finally had to give him up, about the time that he gonna want me,
but God have mercy on them who were slandered and humiliated, I'd done anything for that [G] man, if he [Cm] didn't make me feel [F] obligated, [Bb] west of the [F] Georgia, east of the [Cm] Rock of Gibraltar. _
I _ [G] see a turning of a page, [F] curtain rising [Cm] on a new age, the bruised jail [C] waiting at the [Cm] _ _ _ [C] _ [Cm] _ _ [C] altar.
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_ _ _ [C] Put your hat on my head baby, do I have a temperature, see people's posture no better, [Cm]
standing round like butcher, [C] there's a wall between you,
what you want you gotta leave it, tonight you got the [G] power to take it, tomorrow [Cm] you won't have the power to [F] keep it, [Bb] west of the [F] Georgia, east of the Rock [C] of [Cm] Gibraltar.
I _ see [G] a turning of a page, [F] curtain rising [Eb] on a new [C] age, the bruised jail waiting at the altar, _ _ [Cm] don't know what I can say about Onett, that wouldn't [C] come back to haunt me, [Cm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ I finally had to give him up, about _ the time that he gonna want me, _ [Gm] _ I finally had to [C] give him up, about _ _ [Cm]
[C] the time that he gonna want me, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ west [F] [Bb] of the Georgia, [F]
east of the Rock of [Cm] _ Gibraltar. _ _
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