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RABBIT FUR COAT - Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins
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Tabbed by: ilene
Email: [email protected]
Tuning: Standard
Chords: C, Am, D G
Intro:
C Am C Am C G C
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B|----1-1-------------1-1-------------1-1------------1-1---1--------------|
G|----0-0-----2-2-----0-0-----2-2-----0-0------------0-0---0--------------|
D|------------2-2-------------2-2--------------------------2--------------|
A|--3-------0-------3-------0-------3--------0--2--3-------3--------------|
E|-----------------------------------------3------------------------------|
Verses
C Am C Am C Am D
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B|----1-1----------------1-1----------------------1--1---------------3-3--|
G|----0-0-------2-2------0-0-----2-2--------------0--0---2----2------2-2--|
D|--------------2-2--------------2-2---------------------2----2----0------|
A|--3---------0--------3-------0----------3------------0------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
i was of poor folk, but my mother had a rabbit fur coat
G G G C C C
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B|----0-0----------0---0------0---0------------------1---1-------1-1------|
G|----0-0----------0---0------0---0------------------0---0-------0-0------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--2-------------------------------------------3-----------3-------------|
E|------------3------------3----------------------------------------------|
and a girl of less character pushed her down the LA river
C G C Am C Am
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B|-------1----1------------------1-1------------1-1-----------------------|
G|-------0----0------------------0-0---2-2------0-0-----2-2---------------|
D|-------------------------------------2-2--------------2-2---------------|
A|-----3-------------0---2---3--------0--------3------0-------------------|
E|-----------------3------------------------------------------------------|
"hand o ver that rabbit fur coat"...
[[repeat the same thing for the rest of the verses]]
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C Am C Am
I was of poor folk,
C Am D G
but my mother had a rabbit fur coat.
G G C C
And a girl of less character pushed her down the LA river.
C G C Am C Am
"Hand over that rabbit fur coat"
C Am C Am
She put a knife to her throat
C Am D G
'Hand over that rabbit fur coat'
G G C C
When my ma refused, the girl kicked dirt on her blouse.
C G C Am C Am
"Stay away from my mansion house."
C Am C Am
My mother really suffered for that.
C Am D G
Spent her life in a gold plated body cast.
G G C C
Now, you ask, did she get that girl back?
C G C Am C Am
She payed a visit to that mansion house.
C Am C Am
She knew the girl was not there,
C Am D G
but her father was in cufflinks with slicked-back black hair
G G C G
He invited her in. They never sang a note,
C G C Am C Am
but she took off that rabbit fur coat.
C Am C Am
And who do you think came home?
C Am D G
Miss So and So
G G C C
She took one look at my mama and what did she say?
C G C
"Why are you stealing from my mansion house?"
C Am C Am
"No, I'm in love with Mr. So and So
C Am D G
He invited me in. I'm a girl no more."
G G C C
Then she dragged my ma out by her throat.
C G C Am C Am
"Hand over that rabbit fur coat."
C Am C Am
Let's move ahead twenty years, shall we?
C Am D G
She was waitressing on welfare. We were living in the Valley.
G G C C
A lady says to my ma "you treat your girl as your spouse.
C G C
You can live in a mansion house."
C Am C Am
And so we did,
C Am D G
and I became a hundred-thousand-dollar kid.
G G C (strum once (pause)
When I was old enough to realize; wiped the dust from my mother's eyes...
C G C Am C Am
It's all this for that rabbit fur coat.
C Am C Am
But I'm not bitter about it
C Am D G
I've packed up my things and let them have at it,
G G C C
and the fortune faded, as fortunes often do,
C G C Am C Am
and so did that mansion house.
C Am C Am
Where my ma is now, I don't know.
C Am D G
She was living in her car. I was living on the road,
G G C C
and I hear she's putting that stuff up her nose,
C G C Am C Am
and still wearing that rabbit fur coat.
C Am C Am
But mostly I'm a hypocrite
C Am D G
I sing songs about the defecit,
G G
but when I sell out and leave Omaha,
C C (strum, pause)
what will I get?
C G C C
a mansion house and a rabbit fur coat.
:D The End. this song is amazing.
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