Chords for Sufjan Stevens - Wallowa Lake Monster (Official Audio)

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[Em] _ _ _ As if you know [A] the [F#m] _ story _ [Bm] of Wallowa [G] _ Lake, _ _ Leviathan [Am] first _ [C] did indeed, [G] _ _ .
where her [Am] children sleep.
_ She [G] kept them hidden from the plague.
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[Em] _ _ _ But have you heard [F#m] the _ story _ of my [Bm].
[G] mother's fate?.
_ She left us in [C] Detroit [Am] in [G] the rain [Am] with a _ _ pillowcase.
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[G] Fortune for the paperweight.
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_ _ _ _ followed [A] her to Joseph _ _ near the [G] Indian raid.
She wept among [C] the _ weeds, [G] hide and seek [Am] for the fallen chief.
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[G] Spathophilum on his grave.
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[Em] _ _ _ And like the [A].
cedar [F#m] _ waxwing, she was drunk [G] all day.
We put her in [Am] the sheet, little [G] _ wreath, candles [Am] on the crate.
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[G] The monster showed his face.
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[D] _ _ _ _ The shoe he [C] raised for her children in the shade.
[F] _ _ _ Tell me, Gordon, oh [Am] tell me, Gordon, _ _ _ _ .
[A#] _ _ _ _ No oblation [Am] will bring her back to [D] our place.
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_ _ _ _ stayed within [D] the _ deep end _ of Wallowa [G] Lake.
_ The undertow _ .
[Am] _ refrained [G] with the _ flame of [Am] a feathered snake.
_ [G] _ Charybdis in its shallow grave.
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[Em] _ _ _ She gave us one [F#m] last feature, _ the fullness of her [G] _ face.
In [Em] the shade [C] of hill [G] to your [C] red [Am] Napoleon.
_ _ [C] _ _ As [G] the demon took her place.
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[D] _ _ _ And as we [C] waited for the waters to [F].
reside.
_ _ _ Her [Am] embargo was stolen by Sizum and her [A#] pride.
_ _ _ _ When the [Am] dragon submerged, we knew she [D] had died.
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