The Chieftains with Joni Mitchell - The Magdalene Laundries Chords

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_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ was an unmarried girl, _ _
[C#] _ I'd just turned 27, _ _ [A] _
when they sent me to the sisters, _ [C#]
for the
way men looked at me.
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[D] _ _ Branded as a Jezebel, I knew [C#] I was not bound for heaven.
_ I'd [D] be cast in shame [E] into the _ Magdalene [F#m] _ _ [C#] laundries. _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ Most girls come here pregnant, _ [F#] _
_ [C#] _ some by their own fathers. _
[A] _ _ _ Bridget got that belly _ [F#] by her parish priest. _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ We're trying to get things white as snow, [F#] all of us, woe-begotten daughters, [C#] _
[D] in the
steaming stains [E] of the _ [F#] Magdalene _ _ [F#m] laundries. _ _ _ _
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[D] _ _ _ Prostitutes and destitutes, _ _
[F#m] _ and temptresses like me.
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[D] _ _ Fallen women, _ sentenced [F#m] into dreamless _ _ tragedies. _ _
[D] _ Why do they call this heartless place, [Bm] our lady of [C#] charity?
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[D] _ Charity. _ _ _ _ _
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[A] _ These bloodless brides of Jesus, if they [C#m] had just [F#] once glimpsed their groom, then [C#] they'd know. _
[A] _ _ And they'd drop those stones concealed behind [F#m] their rosaries.
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[D] _ They wilt the grass they walk upon, [F#] they leech [F#m] the light out of a [C#] room.
_ _ They'd like to [D] drive us down the drain, at [E] the _ [F#] Magdalene laundries.
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_ Peg O'Connell died today, _ _ [F#m] _
she was a cheeky [C#] girl, a flirt.
They just stuffed her in [A] a hole.
_ Surely to God you'd think at least [F#]
some bell should ring.
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[D] _ One day I'm gone, _ _ [Bm] and then they'll [C#] plant me in the dirt. _ _ _ _
[D] _ Like some lame bulb that never blooms, [F#m] come [C#] any spring. _ _
[A] Not any spring.
_ _ _ [F#m] Oh.
Come _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [A] any spring.
[F#m] _ _ _ _ _ Like some lame [D] _ bulb [D] that never blooms, come any spring.
_ [F#m] Like _ any spring.
[D] _ _ _ Like any spring.
Not any spring.
Come, come, any spring.
Not any spring.
come, come, any spring
Nothing is spring.
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