Mother Of God Chords by Patty Griffin

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_ _ _ _ _ All you kids get out the back door
[F] I've never seen her this mad before
_ [C] Took all her favorite things down from the window and broke them all over [G] a clean floor
It's [C] Saturday at the mansion
[F] The oldest boy walks with a [Am] slouch
The young ones are wild [C] in back of the house and she gave up and went back to sleep on the couch
_ _ [F] Something as simple as boys [Am] and girls
Gets [G] _ tossed all around and lost [A] in the [D] world
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_ [D] _ [F] _ Something as hard as a prayer [Am] on your back
_ _ [G] Wait a long time _ _ for [Am] an _ answer
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_ _ _ When I was little I'd stare at her picture
_ And [F] talk to the mother of God
I [C] swear sometimes I'd see her lips move
[G] Like she was trying to say something [C] to me
When I was eighteen I moved to Florida
[F] Like everyone's sick of the cold does
[C] And I waited on old people waiting to die
Oh I [G] waited on them until I was _
_ _ [F] _ Something as simple as boys and [G] girls
[C] _ _ [G] Gets tossed all around and lost [A] in [Em] the world
[Am] _ _ _ _ [F] Something as hard as a prayer [Am] on your back
Wait _ [G] a long time _ _ for [Am] an _ answer
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[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ So I'm wearing my footsteps into this floor _
[F] One day I won't live here anymore
_ [C] Someone will wonder who lived here before
[G] And went on their way
I _ live too many miles from the ocean
[C] _ I'm getting older and I
_ Get up every morning with a smile on my face
I have my cup of coffee and I
[G] Talk to the mother of God _
_ [F] _ _ Something as simple as boys and [C] girls _ _ _
[G] Gets tossed all around and lost [A] in the [G] world
_ [Am] _ _ _ [F] Something as hard as a prayer on your [C] back _ _
Wait [G] a long time _ _ [Am] for an answer
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[F] _ _ _ _ _ it's [G]
alright
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[F] _ we [Am] won't [C] fight [G] anymore
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_ [G] it's waiting _ at [Am] the _ end [G] of _ [F] everyone
_ _ [Am] I _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] don't know _
_ I [C] don't _ [G] _ know
_ _ _ [F] Maybe, _ _ maybe [G] it's _ _ _ _ alright
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