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Great song by Natalie Merchant! I really like the Discover Weekly Spotify playlist. It is an excellent tool for discovering new music and this song comes from there. Here’s the guitar chords of Motherland.
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EM
EM
Where in hell can you
BM
go
C
Far from the things you k
G
now
C
Far from the sprawl of co
G
ncrete
That keeps crawling its w
D
ay
About a 1,000 miles a
EM
day
EM
Take one last look beh
BM
ind
C
Commit this to memory and m
G
ind
C
Don’t miss this wasteland, this ter
G
rible
place
When you le
D
ave
Keep your heart off your
EM
sleeve
Motherl
G
and cradle
D
me
Dsus2
D
Close my
C
eyes
Lullaby me to s
G
leep
Keep me s
C
afe
Lie with me
G
Stay beside me don’t
D
go
Dsus2
D
Don’t you
EM
go
Oh, my five and dime
BM
queen
C
Tell me what have you see
G
n
C
The lust and the avarice
The b
G
ottomless, the cavernous gr
D
eed
Dsus2
D
Is that what you s
EM
ee?
Motherl
G
and cradle
D
me
Dsus2
D
Close my
C
eyes
Lullaby me to s
G
leep
Keep me s
C
afe
Lie with me
G
Stay beside me don’t
D
go
Dsus2
D
It’s your h
C
appiness
I want m
G
ost of all
And for th
C
at I’d do an
A
ything at al
D
l
Oh, mercy me!
If you want the b
C
est of it
Or the m
G
ost of all
If there’s a
C
nything I c
A
an do at all
D
Dsus2
D
EM
BM
C
G
C
G
D
EM
Now come on shot gun
BM
bride
C
What makes me envy your lif
G
e
C
Faceless,
nameless
Innoc
G
ent,
blameless
And
D
fre
Dsus2
e
D
What’s it like to
EM
be?
Motherl
G
and cradle
D
me
Dsus2
D
Close my
C
eyes
Lullaby me to s
G
leep
Keep me s
C
afe
Lie with me
G
Stay beside me don’t
D
go
Dsus2
D
Don’t g
D
o
Dsus2
D
EM
C
G
D
Dsus2
Bm
A
Em