Artist: Patty Griffin
Album: Living with Ghosts
CAPO 3RD
G - 320033 Dsus4 - x00233
C9 - 032030 Am - 002210
D - 000232 C - 003210
[Intro]
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Sweet Lor raine the fiery head brown eyed schemer
who came from a long line of drinkers and dreamers
who knew that sunshine don?t hold up to dark
whose businesses fail who sleep in the park
Lor raine who spoke of paintings in Paris
and outlandish things to her family just to scare us
whose heart went pokin? where it shouldn?t ought
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whose mother could only, spit at the thought
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Lorraine, sweet Lorraine
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Her father would tear out like a page of the Bible
then he?d burn down the house to announce his arrival
her mother was working and never was home
Lor raine carved out a little life of her own
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Lor raine started working, Lorraine went to school
her mother threw stones at her on the day that she moved
now isn?t that a very strange thing to do
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for someone who never really wanted you
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Lorraine, sweet Lorraine
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Her daddy called her a slut and a whore
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on the night before her wedding day
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the very next morning, at the church
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her daddy gave, Lorraine away, Lorraine away
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Lorraine, sweet Lorraine
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In the battle of time, in the battle of will
it?s only your hope and your heart that gets killed
and it?s harder and harder Lorraine, to believe in magic
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when what came before you was so very tragic
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Lorraine, sweet Lorraine
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Sweet Lorraine
----repeats, fades out on D
