Brother Moses Sister Mae chords by The Black Sorrows

🎸 Intro:

C E Fm C




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

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


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


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


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


🎸 Bridge:
C                 C#m
Brother Moses and sister Mae
Dm         Am            G
There just wastin' their life away.
C                 Am
Brother Moses and sister Mae
Dm       Am
Are just thankful for
E            Am
One - more - day


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


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


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


🎸 Verse 7:
C                 C#m
Brother Moses and sister Mae
C          Am            G
There just wastin' their lives away.
C                 Am
Brother Moses and sister Mae
Dm       Am
Are just thankful for
Fm    E
One - more - day.






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