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Origin of Love
>From 'Hediwg and the Angry Inch'
Chord Voicings
D5D5 D/B Aadd9Aadd9 G+G B minorBm A augmentedA E minorEm F# minorF#m AbAb
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Intro
D MajorD D/B Aadd9Aadd9
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G+G G/DG/D Gadd6
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G+G (When the Earth...)
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D MajorD
When the earth ..
D/B
And the clouds ..
Aadd9Aadd9
And mountains...
G+G
Sometimes ...
G+G
Folks roamed ...
D MajorD
They had two sets ...
F# minorF#m G+G
They had two ...
E minorEm
So they could ....
A augmentedA
As they talked; ...
G+G A augmentedA D MajorD
And they never knew nothing of love.
G+G A augmentedA
It was before the origin of love.
D MajorD G+G D MajorD G+G
The origin of love
B minorBm
And there were three ...
D MajorD
Glued up back to back,
G+G
Called the children of the ...
D MajorD
And similar in...
D MajorD
They looked like two girls
G+G
Rolled up in one.
A augmentedA
And the children ...
B minorBm
Were like a fork...
C# minorC#m
They were part ...
A augmentedA
Part daughter, part son.
D MajorD G+G D MajorD G+G
The origin of love
D MajorD
Now the gods...
D/B
Of our strength...
G+G
And Thor said,
G+G
"I'm ...
G+G
With my hammer,
G+G
Like ...
G+G
And...
D MajorD
Use my lightening...
F# minorF#m
Then he grabbed .
G+G
And he let ...
E minorEm
Said, "I'll split them right ...
A augmentedA
Gonna cut them right ...
G+G A augmentedA D MajorD
And then storm clouds gathered above
G+G
Into great balls of fire
B minorBm
And then fire...
G+G
Of a knife.
B minorBm
And it ripped
G+G
And the earth.
B minorBm
And some Indian god
G+G
To remind ...
B minorBm
And Osiris ...
G+G
Gathered up a big storm
E minorEm
To blow a hurricane,
B minorBm
To scatter us away,
G+G
In a flood of wind and rain,
E minorEm
And a sea of tidal waves,
B minorBm
To wash us all away,
G+G
And if we don't behave
E minorEm
They'll cut us down again
AbAb G+G
And we'll be hopping round on one foot
D MajorD G+G
And looking through one eye.
[Break] PLay Twice
D MajorD E minorEm
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G+G
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D MajorD
Last...
B minorBm
We had just...
G+G
You were looking...
A augmentedA
I was looking...
D MajorD
You had a way...
B minorBm
But I could...
G+G
Cause you had blood...
A augmentedA
I had blood...
D MajorD
But I could swear...
B minorBm
That the pain...
G+G A augmentedA
Was the same as the one...
D MajorD
That's the pain,
B minorBm
Cuts a straight line
G+G
Down through the heart;
A augmentedA
We called it love.
D MajorD
So we wrapped our arms...
B minorBm
Trying to shove ourselves...
G+G
We were making love,
A augmentedA
Making love.
D MajorD
It was a cold...
B minorBm
Such a long time ago,
G+G A augmentedA
When by the mighty hand of Jove,
D MajorD
It was the sad story
B minorBm
How we became
G+G
Lonely two-legged creatures,
A augmentedA
It's the story of
D MajorD G+G
The origin of love.
D MajorD G+G
That's the origin of love.
Tabbed by Mark Cunningham