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Sadie, white coat
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you carry me home
       B  Ebm E  Ebm
And bury this bone
        B       Ebm     E       Ebm
and take this pine cone


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Bury this bone to
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Gnaw on it later
Abm
Gnawing on the telephone
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Until then, we pray and suspend
       B                Bmaj7      Abm
The notion that these lives do never end


B
And all day long we talk about mercy
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Lead me to water, Lord, I sure am thirsty
B
Down in the ditch where I nearly served you
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Up in the clouds where he almost heard you


E
And all that we built and all that we breathed
Abm
And all that we spilt, or pulled up like weeds
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Is piled up in back and it burns irrevocably
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And we spoke up in turns 'til the silence crept over me


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And bless you, and I deeply do
                B    Ebm E  Ebm
No longer resolute, oh and I call to you
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But the water go so cold
          B       Ebm   E            Ebm
And you do lose what you don't hold


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This is an old song, these are old blues
        B               Bmaj7            Abm
And this is not my tune, but it's mine to use
           Ebm        Gb        Dbm                     E
And the seabirds where the fear once grew
B                       Bmaj7           Abm
Will flock with a fury and they will bury what'd come for you


B
And down where I darn with the milk-eyed mender
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You and I, and a love so tender
B
Stretched on a hoop where I stitched this adage:
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"Bless our house and its heart so savage"


E
And all that I want, and all that I need
Abm
And all that I've got is scattered like seed
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And all that I knew is moving away from me
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And all that I know is blowing like tumbleweed


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And the mealy worms in the brine will burn
        B       Ebm             E                  Ebm
In a salty pyre among the fauns and ferns
             B          Ebm                 E           Ebm
And the love we hold, and the love we spurn
                B       Ebm     E       Ebm
Will never grow cold, only taciturn
        B       Ebm     E       Ebm
And I'll tell you tomorrow
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Sadie, go on home now
        B       Ebm             E               Ebm
And bless those who've sickened below
        B       Ebm             E               Ebm
And bless us who have chosen so


E
And all that I've got and all that I need
Abm
I tie in a knot and I lay at your feet
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And I have not forgot, but a silence crept over me
Abm                             E                       Gb              B
So dig up your bone, exhume your pine cone, my Sadie