Chords for Momus: Murderers, the Hope of Women

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_ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] With this knife [Am] I cut the [F] cake, who will be [Am] my bride today?
[C] _
Sweet _ [Em] Fanny Adams. _ _
_ [F] Watch her [Am] climb the stepladder, [F] a present from [Am] her stepfather.
[C] _ Sweet _ _
[F] Fanny Adams.
[Am] _ _ _ [D] See her reaching [C] out and [Am] stripping down the [Em] muslin drapes,
[D] a cover for [C] her nakedness, [A] a veil [G] for her face.
_ _ _ [F] With curtains [Am] for your wedding dress, [F] you must [Am] take your place
[C] amongst the proper _ little [Am] ladders. _
_ _ _ _ Because I love you, [Dm] [G] I must take [Am] my place too.
_ _ _ _ _ Amongst the [Gm] murderers, the hopeful [F] women, death in every [Bb] new [Dm] beginning,
I must take [C] this woman [Em] for my _
[Bb] sentence [Dm] of life.
[G] _ _
[F] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Em] She [Gb] must take [Am] my life. _ _
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[F] I will [Am] buy a ring of [F] gold, and you will [Am] practice birth control.
[C] Sweet _ _ [E] Fanny [Em] Adams.
_ [Bbm] _ _ [G] Like a puppet [Am] on a [F] string of estrogen [A] and progesterone.
[C] Sweet _ _ [F] Fanny Adams. _
[Am] _ _ [D] This is [C] where your misery starts, [Am] this is where your mystery [E] stops.
[D] We rent a [C] television to [Am] replace [G] Pandora's box. _
[Em] _ _ [F] I will [A] wear a business [F] face, [G] and you will learn [Am] your proper place
[C] from those proper _ little [F] ladies.
[Am] _ _ _
[Dm] [G] In my world [Am] of cut and thrust, [G] I will [Am] learn that my place, _ _ _ my place must
be with the murderers, [Gm] the hopeful [F] women, death in [Bb] every new beginning.
[Dm] I must [C] take this woman [Em] for my _ [Bb] sentence _
[Dm] of life.
[G] _ _ _ [F] _ _
[G] _ _ _ [Em] She [Gb] must take [D] my life.
[E] _ _ _ [F] _ _
[G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
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_ [A] _ _ _ _ [F] In my [Am] pipe and slippers, _ [F] [G] do I look [A] like Jack the Ripper?
[C] _ Sweet _ [Em] Fanny Adams.
[E] _ _ [Dm] But [G] I poisoned you [A] with every kiss, I smothered you with domestic bliss.
[C] _
Sweet _ _ [F] Fanny Adams.
[Am] _ _
_ [Dm] _ Underneath [C] the suntan [Am] from the sun lamp that [Em] we bought,
_ _ [D] your [C] face is paler [Am] than the pale face [G] of a corpse. _ _
And from the seventh floor [Am] of our bungalow, you [G] flung yourself [Am] down to where they stood below,
[C] those proper _ little _ [F] ladies.
[Am] _ _ _
[F] But in [G] white hair, wrinkles, [Am] and false teeth, [Gb] _
[F] I escape [G] detection [A] by the police.
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_ One of [Am] the [Gm] murderers, the hopeful [F] women, death in [Bb] every new beginning.
[Dm] I must [C] take this woman [Em] for my _ [Bb] sentence _
[Dm] of life.
[Em] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Ebm] _ _ My _ [F] _ life.
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