Mermaids chords by Florence + The Machine

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: A augmentedA

🎸 Intro:

DmDm FF C majorC x2


🎸 Verse 1:
DmDm          FF     G+G
 I thought that I was hungry for love
DmDm       FF     G+G
 Maybe I'm just hungry for blood
DmDm           G+G
 Sea foam woman on the shore
A minorAm                C majorC
 Your prairie ghost, I'm a cottage whore
DmDm             G+G
 All the mermaids have sharp teeth
A minorAm           C majorC
 Razorblades all in your feet

🎸 Instrumental:
DmDm FF A augmentedA
DmDm FF A augmentedA G+G

🎸 Verse 2:
      DmDm        FF
England is only ever grey or green
          A augmentedA          A augmentedA
The girls glitter striding glorious and coatless in the rain
DmDm                FF
I remember fallin' through these streets
        A augmentedA           A augmentedA
Somewhat out of place, if not for the drunkenness

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
      DmDm           FF
It makes my chest hurt to think of it
    A augmentedA             A augmentedA
Not of regret, but of missing that

🎸 Chorus:
     DmDm   FF
Cheerful oblivion
     A augmentedA    G+G
Cheerful oblivion

🎸 Verse 3:
        DmDm              FF
It was not all pain and pavement slick with rain
         A minorAm              G+G
And shinin' under lights from shitty clubs and doing shitty drugs
      DmDm                   FF  A minorAm   G+G
And huggin' girls that smelled like Britney Spears and coconuts
       DmDm          FF
And with your mermaid hair and your teeth so sharp
  A minorAm                 G+G
You crawled from the sea to break that sailor's heart
     DmDm           FF
You only get one night up on the shore
  A minorAm               G+G
So dance like you've never danced before
    DmDm               FF
And the dance floor is filling up with blood
     A minorAm              G+G
But, oh, Lord, you've never been so in love

🎸 Chorus:
DmDm FF     A minorAm   G+G
  Cheerful oblivion
     DmDm   FF
Cheerful oblivion
     A minorAm   G+G
Cheerful oblivion

🎸 Bridge:
  FF
And mermaids, they come once a year
   G+G
They climb the struts of Brighton Pier
   A minorAm
They come to drink, they come to dance
  E minorEm
To sacrifice a human heart
    FF                G+G
And the world is so much wilder than you think
  A minorAm                  A minorAm
You haven't seen nothin' 'til you seen an English girl drink

🎸 Chorus:
DmDm FF     A minorAm   G+G
  Cheerful oblivion
     DmDm   FF
Cheerful oblivion
     A minorAm   G+G
Cheerful oblivion
     DmDm   FF
Cheerful oblivion
     A minorAm   G+G
Cheerful oblivion

🎸 Outro:
DmDm FF A augmentedA
DmDm FF A augmentedA G+G