Color Me Once chords by Violent Femmes

Chords with lyrics

Key: DmDm

🎸 Intro:

DmDm A minorAm G minorGm DmDm   A minorAm G minorGm DmDm
G minorGm DmDm


🎸 Verse 1:
DmDm
Color me once, color me twice
DmDm
Everything gonna turn out nice
G minorGm             G minorGm
Everlasting arms, you gotta keep me from these false alarms

🎸 Verse 2:
DmDm
Alarm, alarm I see you so sad
DmDm
Ring, ring I see you
I'm glad
G minorGm        DmDm
Maybe, maybe the fire of her desire

🎸 Verse 3:
DmDm
Patience, patience, said the man
DmDm
Patience, patience
I can't understand
G minorGm
Patience like a man to a wife
   DmDm
I got patience on my neck like a cold, cold knife

🎸 Verse 4:
DmDm
I say Jack be nimble
Jack fall dead
DmDm
Jack bend over and give Jilly head
G minorGm      DmDm
Oh, you gotta help my body heal my soul

Guitar 🎸 Solo:
DmDm  G minorGm DmDm N.C.

🎸 Verse 5:
DmDm
Dead men working a sinner, a saint
DmDm
Mixing up a pail of paint
G minorGm
Painted the house, black as night
DmDm
When the sun came up, the house was white

🎸 Verse 6:
DmDm         A minorAm
Gotta go on, gotta go on
     G minorGm     DmDm
We gotta go on, you gotta go on
  G minorGm
You gotta go on
A minorAm
Go on
G minorGm
Go on
DmDm
Try and live life like I couldn't

🎸 Outro:
DmDm   G minorGm DmDm   G minorGm DmDm
A minorAm G minorGm DmDm  A minorAm G minorGm DmDm

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