Chord Mother Of God by Patty Griffin

tab by matt morrow , pattynet . net standard tuning C G C C F all you kids get out the back door , i’ve never seen her this mad before C she took all her favorite things down from the window G and broke them all over her clean floor C F it’s saturday at the mansion , the oldest boy walks with a slouch C the young ones are wild in back of the house G C and she gave up and went back to sleep on the couch F C something as simple as boys and girls G Am gets tossed all around and lost in the world F C something as hard as a prayer on your back G Am can wait a long time for an answer when i was little i’d stare at her picture and talk to the mother of god i swear sometimes i’d see her lips move like she was trying to say something to me when i was eighteen i moved to florida like everyone sick of the cold does and i waited on old people waiting to die oh , i waited on them until i was something as simple as boys and girls gets tossed all around and lost in the world something as hard as a prayer on your back can wait a long time for an answer C G F C G C G F C G C now i’m wearing my footsteps into this floor one day i won’t live here anymore and someone will wonder who lived here before and went on their way i live too many miles from the ocean and i’m getting older and odd i get up every morning with my cup of coffee and i talk to the mother of god something as simple as boys and girls gets tossed all around and lost in the world something as har as a prayer on your back can wait a long time for an answer can wait a long time for an answer F G F G F G F G maybe it’s alright , maybe we won’t fight anymore F G Am G F G maybe love is waiting at the end of every road F G i don’t know , i don’t know F G F G F G and maybe , maybe it’s alright F G Am F G