Chords for Jack Stauber's Micropop - The Ballad of Hamantha

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ It's a nice, _ _ _ _
[Am] _ nice day.
_ [Gm] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Am] It's a nice, nice [Gm] day.
It's a nice, _
[F] _ _ nice day.
Life's extension [Am] lottery.
_ _ [G] Kind some [F] but not duly.
_ [Bb] Horns [Am] the rare and sad disease.
_ Groups [E] where I [Bb] should be.
Blowing hair, [Am] she was a beautiful eye.
[C] Naked [Gm] face, [F]
lovely eyes.
[Bb] Dream was to be a [F] famous star.
But at [Eb] the rate [Gm] she was going, [F] she wasn't going [Bb] far.
_ _ Amantha, [Am] _
_ Amantha, [Gm] you were impossible to [F]
ignore.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Am] Amantha, Amantha, [Gm] so greedy we want [F]
more.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [Gm] _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Bb] Her father [G] was a [B] simple man.
[Gm] He wanted to help [F] in any way that he can.
[Bb] Home from school, [Am] he watched his daughter cry.
In the [Gm] yard, he saw [F] God flying up the [Bb] sky.
_ Blowing [C] hair, she was [Am] a beautiful eye.
_ [Gm] Naked face, [Bb]
[F] lovely eyes.
[Bb] Dreams in the sky, her father [Am] held her pain.
And [A] as he [Gm] shot at the clouds, [Bb] it began to rain.
_ _ _ _ [Am]
Amantha, Amantha, [Gm] you were impossible to [F]
ignore.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
[Am] Amantha, Amantha, [Gm] so greedy we want [F]
more.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] Got a call [Am] from the _ doctor.
[Gm] He had some amazing [F] news for her.
He just [Bb] developed a cure.
He [G]
hurried over and now he's [A] trying out on [F] her. _ _
[Bb] First out the door, she [Am] was _ beaming.
[Gm] The moment the rain dropped, her [D] happy tears were _ streaming.
_ [Bb] Finally freed from her [A] _
pain.
[D] But something else fell [F] with the _ [Am] rain.
A [Bb] stray bullet shot [A] my little _ [Am] _ mother.
[Gm] Painless weakness, [F] dead inside her.
[Bb] She fell to the sidewalk [Am] now _ empty.
[D] But my wish was graced [F] in her body. _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Am] _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] Nurse, _ she's gone.
[E] Oh dear.
[Gm]
I left a [F] lunch on the table in the operating room for the [Bb] bereaved.
A cooked ham, as is [Am] customary for these _ dark [Gm] situations. _
Doctor, [F] which one is the ham?
I must _ [Fm] _
go, I'm on [Bb] break.
Oh dear. _ _
_ _ _ _ Blowing hair, she [Am] was a beautiful eye.
_ [G] _ [Gm] A lovely face, [Bb] a [F] lovely eye.
[Bb] Time of death, the doc [Am] said, times indeed.
So [C] he took [Gm] a bite [F] out of her face.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
[Am] Hamantha, Hamantha, you [Gm] were impossible to [F] ignore.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Am] Hamantha, Hamantha, [Gm] so greedy we want [F]
more.
_ _ _ [Bb] Soaring infinitely through [Am] space, _ [Gm] _ Hamantha's soul was [F] graced.
[Bb] With a glance [C] afar, on the planet [Gm] at which she was [F] amazed.
_ _ [Bb] _ News of her [Am] _ untimely death had [Gm] spread out near [F] and far.
_ _ [Bb] Through her soul, each [Am] people's hope, a [Gm] dream had crossed [F] the bar.
_ _ [Gm] Hamantha had become [F] a star.
_ _ [Gm] Hamantha was finally [F] a star.
_ _ [Gm] Hamantha had become [F] a star.
_ _ Hamantha was [C] finally [F] a star. _ _ _ _ _ _