Mother Of God

tab by matt morrow , pattynet . net

standard tuning

C G C

C F
all you kids get out the back door , i’ve never seen her this mad before

C
she took all her favorite things down from the window

G
and broke them all over her clean floor

C F
it’s saturday at the mansion , the oldest boy walks with a slouch

C
the young ones are wild in back of the house

G C
and she gave up and went back to sleep on the couch

F C
something as simple as boys and girls

G Am
gets tossed all around and lost in the world

F C
something as hard as a prayer on your back

G Am
can wait a long time for an answer

when i was little i’d stare at her picture
and talk to the mother of god
i swear sometimes i’d see her lips move
like she was trying to say something to me
when i was eighteen i moved to florida
like everyone sick of the cold does
and i waited on old people waiting to die
oh , i waited on them until i was

something as simple as boys and girls
gets tossed all around and lost in the world
something as hard as a prayer on your back
can wait a long time for an answer

C G F C G

C G F C G C

now i’m wearing my footsteps into this floor
one day i won’t live here anymore
and someone will wonder who lived here before
and went on their way
i live too many miles from the ocean
and i’m getting older and odd
i get up every morning with my cup of coffee
and i talk to the mother of god

something as simple as boys and girls
gets tossed all around and lost in the world
something as har as a prayer on your back
can wait a long time for an answer
can wait a long time for an answer

F G F G

F G F G
maybe it’s alright , maybe we won’t fight anymore

F G Am G F G
maybe love is waiting at the end of every road

F G
i don’t know , i don’t know

F G F G F G
and maybe , maybe it’s alright

F G Am F G