The Mother chords by Brandi Carlile

• Capo on 1st

Intro:
C  Dsus9  C  G

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

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

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

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

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

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

                         D      G
But I am the mother of Evangeline


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

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

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

                                 D     Dsus4        D
But none of that is ever who we are

 G
Outside of my windows are the mountains and the snow

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

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

                         D       G
But I am the mother of Evangeline


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

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

     Em                                     C              Dsus9
But all the wonders I have seen, I will see a second time

                                      D      Dsus4        D
From inside of the ages through your eyes


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

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

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

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

      C                               G
I'll never hit the bigtime without you

    D                                        C         C/B        Am      G
So they can keep their treasure and their ties to the machine

                           D      Em
Cause I am the mother of Evangeline

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

 G                           D      G
Cause I am the mother of Evangeline

 C      C/B      Am      D      G
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

 C      C/B      Am      D      G
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

 C      C/B      Am      D      G
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh