Anesthesia chords by Brenda Kahn

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:

B minorBm  A augmentedA  G+G  A augmentedA
B minorBm  A augmentedA  G+G  A augmentedA

Verse 1:
B minorBm               A augmentedA       G+G
She wore a half smile, always laughing in the wind
B minorBm    A augmentedA           G+G     A augmentedA
I know it sounds cliche but it's all true
B minorBm    A augmentedA          G+G     A augmentedA
I know it sounds cliche but I  love you

Verse 2:
B minorBm                  A augmentedA      G+G
She wore an old black trenchcoat, to cover up her skin
B minorBm       A augmentedA          G+G    A augmentedA
She weren't no fool, she didn't let anybody in
B minorBm       A augmentedA       G+G         A augmentedA
Pulled off the highway, they strip searched the van
B minorBm        A augmentedA       G+G    A augmentedA
All the cops were  so bored in Ashland...Ohio


Chorus:
G+G     A augmentedA        D MajorD      D/AD/A   G+G
And they believe you if you swear you're telling lies
    D MajorD      G+G         A augmentedA  A augmentedA     A augmentedA  A augmentedA
Anesthetized by the violence, they are clapping their hands

B minorBm Bm B minorBm F#F#


Verse 3:
B minorBm             A augmentedA          G+G
She took a picture of every town that she'd been through
B minorBm     A augmentedA           G+G      A augmentedA
An antique postcard store in her mind's eye
B minorBm       A augmentedA   G+G         A augmentedA
And tipped her hat   to the passers by
       B minorBm        A augmentedA      G+G     A augmentedA
And cried for God, and god for man, Malcom X  Billy Graham
        B minorBm    A augmentedA       G+G  A augmentedA
They cried out, "I don't know you from Eve,  Madam!"


Chorus:
G+G     A augmentedA        D MajorD      D/AD/A   G+G
And they believe you if you swear you're telling lies
    D MajorD      G+G         A augmentedA  A augmentedA     A augmentedA  A augmentedA
Anesthetized by the violence, they are clapping their hands

B minorBm Bm B minorBm F#F#

B minorBm       A augmentedA        G+G   A augmentedA

Verse 4:
B minorBm             A augmentedA      G+G
Stripped to her senses, she wanted to go home
B minorBm       A augmentedA        G+G   A augmentedA
Sometimes he'd take her there
B minorBm       A augmentedA      G+G     A augmentedA
Sometimes he'd just kept on drinking, sometimes to
B minorBm       A augmentedA      G+G     A augmentedA
Despair

B minorBm                 A augmentedA        G+G
And she wore a half smile, always laughing in the wind
B minorBm    A augmentedA           G+G     A augmentedA
I know it sounds cliche but it's all true
B minorBm    A augmentedA            G+G     A augmentedA
I know it sounds cliche,            but I love you


Chorus:
G+G     A augmentedA        D MajorD      D/AD/A   G+G
And they believe you if you swear you're telling lies
    D MajorD      G+G         A augmentedA  A augmentedA     A augmentedA  A augmentedA
Anesthetized by the violence, they are clapping their hands


Outro:
B minorBm  A augmentedA  G+G  A augmentedA
B minorBm  A augmentedA  G+G  A augmentedA
B minorBm  A augmentedA  G+G  A augmentedA A majorA E minorEm F# minorF#m