String Of Pearls Chords by Soul Asylum

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_ _ _ _ _ She swings a string of pearls on the corner, [E] the street lights reflect the light in the
water, the [D] string, it snaps and the pearls go sailing [E] and they splash and bounce and
roll across the wet street [A] as she bends to chase the pearls.
The car swings around the corner, [E] she darts from the eyes of the panicked truck driver
[D] who's racing to the delivery room, [E] cause in the backseat his wife is busting out of her
womb [A] and _ _ _ _ _ _ the sack breaks and out come the Siamese twins who [E] grow up to become the first
president [D] with two heads, _ _ _ ah better [E] than one.
_ _ _ _ [A] He puts his head in his hands, says I gotta put my heads together, [E] I can become the best
president ever [D] and not just _ president, but friend for [E]
yourself.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Sometimes his name takes the blame for all of the names [E] with no shame, he never leaves,
[D] they adjourn and they [E] leave and in [D] walks a man [E] with a broom and a knife and blood on
his hands [A] and he sweeps everything [D] under the rug [E] and goes home to his kids and gives them
a hug [D] but his wife was not there, she had just left a letter [E] that said you'd be much
better off without [A] me.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Now his wife, betrayed to her ex-lover's funeral, [E] who died in the bathroom, hit his head on
a urinal [D] when they got together, the knowledge was carnal [E] and the widow was at the funeral
and they had quite a cat fight [A] and they fell into the hole [D] where the casket was resting
[E] and the preacher just left in the middle of the service [D] cause death was one thing but
women made him nervous [E] and he ran to his car and he drove around the [A] corner.
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_ _ _ _ _ Then something in the street caught the light in his eye, he [E] pulled over, reached down and
picked up a pearl [D] from the gutter and he didn't know what to think [E] and he brought it home
and washed it in the sink [A] and he gave the pearl to sister Mary Teresa [E] who could not
accept it so she gave it to Lisa, [D] a young _ prostitute who was to sing a pearl on [E] the
necklace that broke _ big last night. _ _ _ _ _
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