Brother Moses Sister Mae chords by The Black Sorrows

Chords with lyrics

🎸 Intro:

C majorC E MajorE F minorFm C majorC



🎸 Verse 1:
C majorC         E MajorE
Brother Moses and sister Mae
F minorFm           C majorC
Went shufflin' down the land.
             C# minorC#m
Keepin' one step ahead of the law
E MajorE            C majorC
To get each out ahead of time.

🎸 Verse 2:
C majorC           E MajorE
There ain't nobody in this damn world
F minorFm           C majorC
I'd rather be with than you.
      E MajorE
Said sister Mary set for a bottle
F minorFm            G+G
Holdin' enough liquor for two.


🎸 Verse 3:
C majorC        E MajorE
Brother Moses I knew him well
F minorFm           C majorC
He grew tired as years go by.
      E MajorE
Long ago he raised a little one
DmDm           C majorC
It was gone in the wink of an eye.


🎸 Verse 4:
C majorC      E MajorE
Sister Mae, dark child of the city
F minorFm                 C majorC
Where it's somebody's twist that's torn.
F minorFm           C majorC
Fell for her man like a stone in the ocean
G+G                  A minorAm
It was rainin' on the night she was born.

🎸 Chorus:
    E MajorE
It was dust and the pity and the filth and the ground
A minorAm         E MajorE A minorAm
That turned out to be OK.
C majorC              E MajorE
You can dance in your dream, the trouble seemed
  F minorFm     C majorC
To leave your weary head.


🎸 Bridge:
C majorC         C# minorC#m
Brother Moses and sister Mae
DmDm     A minorAm      G+G
There just wastin' their life away.
C majorC         A minorAm
Brother Moses and sister Mae
DmDm    A minorAm
Are just thankful for
E MajorE      A minorAm
One - more - day


🎸 Verse 5:
E MajorE     C majorC              E MajorE
There's a crack in the sky, where the sun peeks through.
DmDm        C majorC
But it ain't any where around here.
E MajorE
The story goes when you see it first time
  F minorFm          C majorC
You can't help but shed a tear.


🎸 Verse 6:
A minorAm           E MajorE
When does it have, and how do you know
F minorFm            C majorC
If it's real or something else?
   F minorFm            C majorC
Your huggin' the streets, the world's lookin' pretty
G+G        A minorAm
While the sky lights like a match.


🎸 Chorus:
    E MajorE
It was dust and the pity and the filth and the ground
A minorAm         E MajorE A minorAm
That turned out to be OK.
    E MajorE
You can dance in your dream, the trouble seemed
  F minorFm      C majorC
To be your weary head.


🎸 Verse 7:
C majorC         C# minorC#m
Brother Moses and sister Mae
C majorC     A minorAm      G+G
There just wastin' their lives away.
C majorC         A minorAm
Brother Moses and sister Mae
DmDm    A minorAm
Are just thankful for
F minorFm  E MajorE
One - more - day.





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