Chords for The Decemberists - My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist

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My mother was [C] _ Chinese [D] _ trapeze [G] artist _ _ _ _
[Em] free [D] war _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [C] Smuggling [D] _ bombs [Eb] for the underground
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[Am] _ _ And she met [D] my father
_ at [B] a fair
_ [Gbm] next son [C] for Vons
_ He's _ disguised as a Russian [D] cadet
the employee of [E] the access _ _ _ _
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[C] And they are in the half-life the provincial midnight _ [G] alone
_ concertina they drank in cantinas and
[C] toasted to eat [D] FBI and
_ _ father [Em] Right _ _ _ _ _
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My sister was born [C] in a hob all [D] in Burgundy
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[Em] Left for [D] the collar
[Am] _ _ _ [B] Later [D] was found by [Eb] a communist
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[Am] _ _ Who deserted [D] his race _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ Follow [C] his dream _ _
Start up on the [D] crock bin in South Carolina
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[C] And I get letters _ sometimes they bought a
plantation [G] she weeds the tobacco he
Offends the nation and they write [C] don't be a stranger you [D] hear
_ Silly [Em] Sister _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ So my parents had me _
[C] discussed [D] other prostitutes _
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[Em] Bad in [D] a brothel _
[Am] _ _ _ _ Surprisingly [D] _ raised [A] with tender [Em] care _ _ _ _ _
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[Am] _ Till the money got [D] tight _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ They fed me [C] away
_ _ To blind brigadier in a [D] game of high [Em]-stakes
He _ _ _ _ made _ _ _ _
[C] me a sailor on his brigadier ship [G] fleet
I know every yard arm from
_ mainmaster gypsy, [C] but sometimes I long to [D] be
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and to work in a
[C] _ bakery _ _ _ _
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