hokai, so ... this is my first submission, so ... having said that, be gentle. ^_^
This is a simple, beautiful and dramatic song. Enjoy!
OPHELIA
By Natalie Merchant
from the album, "Ophelia"
Am/F/C/G
(I like to capo on the first fret, and I use a basic finger-picking pattern,
except during the end, which builds.)
Am F
Ophelia was a bride of God, a novice Carmellite
C G
in sister cells the cloister bells tolled on her wedding night
Am F
And Ophelia was a rebel girl, a blue stockinged suffragette
C G
who remedied society between her cigarettes
Am F
Ophelia was a sweetheart to a nation overnight
C G
Curvacious thighs, vivacious eyes--love was at first sight
Am F C G
Love was at first sight
Am F
Ophelia was a demi-goddess in pre-war babylon
C G
so statuesque, a silhouette in black satin evening gown
Am F
And Ophelia was a mistress to a Vegas gambling man
C G
Signora Ophelia, Maraschina, Mafia Courtesan
Am F
And Ophelia was a circus queen, the female cannonball
C G
Projected through five flaming hoops to wild and shocked applause,
Am F C G
to wild and shocked applause Hey, hey .... heeeeey hey hey
(played louder, dramatically and with feeling)
Am F
Ophelia was a tempest cyclone, a G*d-damned hurricane
C G
Your common sense, your best defense lay wasted and in vain
Am F
For Ophelia knows your every woe and every pain you've ever had
C G
She'd sympathize and dry your eyes and help you to forget
Am F
and help you to forget ...
C G
and help you to forget ...
(quietly and slowly)
Am F
Ophelia's mind went wondering, you'd wondered where she'd gone
C G
Through secret doors, down corridors, she's wandered them all alone
Am F C G
All alone ...
