The Mother chords by Brandi Carlile

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st

Intro:
C majorC Dsus9 C majorC G+G

verse 1:
 G+G
Welcome to the end of being alone inside your mind

    C majorC                G+G
You're tethered to another and you're worried all the time

   D MajorD                C majorC            Dsus9    C majorC
You always knew the melody but you never heard it rhyme

    G+G
She is fair and she is quiet, Lord, she doesn't look like me

   C majorC                  G+G
She made me love the morning, she's a holiday at sea

   D MajorD                   C majorC           G+G
The New York streets are as busy as they always used to be

             D MajorD   G+G
But I am the mother of Evangeline

verse 2:
 G+G
The first things that she took from me were selfishness and sleep

   C majorC                 G+G
She broke a thousand heirlooms I was never meant to keep

   D MajorD                   C majorC               G+G
She filled my life with color, cancelled plans, and trashed my car

                 D MajorD   Dsus4Dsus4    D MajorD
But none of that is ever who we are

 G+G
Outside of my windows are the mountains and the snow

  C majorC                   G+G
I hold you while you're sleeping and I wish that I could go

 D MajorD                C majorC               G+G
All my rowdy friends are out accomplishing their dreams

             D MajorD    G+G
But I am the mother of Evangeline

bridge:
        D MajorD                  C majorC         G+G
They've still got their morning paper and their coffee and their time

     D MajorD                   C majorC         G+G
And they still enjoy their evenings with the skeptics and the wine, oh

   E minorEm                   C majorC       Dsus9
But all the wonders I have seen, I will see a second time

                   D MajorD   Dsus4Dsus4    D MajorD
From inside of the ages through your eyes


verse 3:
 G+G
You were not an accident where no one thought it through

   C majorC                   G+G
The world that stood agaisnt us made us mean to fight for you

   D MajorD                    C majorC           Dsus9    C majorC
And when we chose your name we knew you'd fight the power too

    G+G
You're nothing short of magical and beautiful to me

   C majorC                G+G
I'll never hit the bigtime without you

  D MajorD                    C majorC     C/BC/B    A minorAm   G+G
So they can keep their treasure and their ties to the machine

              D MajorD   E minorEm
Cause I am the mother of Evangeline

 C majorC                              Dsus9    C majorC
They can keep their treasure and their ties to the machine

 G+G              D MajorD   G+G
Cause I am the mother of Evangeline

 C majorC   C/BC/B   A minorAm   D MajorD   G+G
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

 C majorC   C/BC/B   A minorAm   D MajorD   G+G
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

 C majorC   C/BC/B   A minorAm   D MajorD   G+G
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh