Shopping Bag Ladies Chords by Dean Friedman

[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ The shopping bag [C#] ladies, they live in the terminal [E] waiting room
_ _ Patiently whiling [C#m] their hours away _ Desperately keeping their [F#] demons at bay
_ Making up [B] lies about _ times they were good _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [G#] _ Extolling the virtues [C#m] of motherhood
_ _ _ Staunchly defending [A] the sanity _ _ Clutching one last [E] shred of vanity
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Fixing a kerchief she wears and her head _ Covered with posies and lilacs and blues and _ _ reds
_ _ _ _ [E] _
Don't pity me, don't [G#m] pity me, [C#m]
beautiful bastard boy
_ I'll [A]
be just how [E] I am, _ _ _ _ I'll be just how [C#m] I _ am
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[B] The shopping bag [F#m] ladies, it's not that well [B] known what [E] they really involve
The latest in fashions, [C#m] their tastes are so true
_ Sweat [E] socks and sneakers, [A#] a sweater or two _ [F#] And safely behind [B] the walls they have made
_ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [G#] Securing their brown paper [C#m] _
barricades _ [E] Worldly possessions they'll [A] not have to lose
_ _ Lightweight emotional [E]
refuse _ They _ _ _ [F#m] _
_ rant and they rave, they're mad and they're crazy
_ _ That's how they [A] stay free
_ _ _ _ _ [E]
Don't pity me, don't pity me, [C#m]
beautiful bastard boy
_ _ _ [A]
I'll be just how [E] I _ am, _ _ _ I'll be [B] just how [C#m] I _ am
_ _ _ _ [F#] _
The _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
[B] shopping bag [F#m] ladies, it's hard to [B] believe but [A] once there were _ _ _ _ _ _ children _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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