Marias Awful Disclosure chords by Drive-by Truckers

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: F

🎸 Intro:

F    C F G  Dm
F  G  Dm  F  G




🎸 Verse 1:
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An uncontrollable child, given to fantasy
  F               G
A leaded lobotomy left Maria wild
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With a mob in her head holding Magdalene's down in asylums

🎸 Chorus:
C     G
Ghost-written pornography
D                      F                     G              Dm
Tailored to readers in need of a righteous excuse to indulge
F                G      F C
Maria’s awful disclosures


🎸 Interlude:
G  D  F  G  D
F  G  F C


🎸 Verse 2:
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Born of illicit liaisons the babies of Hôtel-Dieu convent weren't meant to survive
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Baptized then strangled then buried mass infanticide
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Something worse done to something more innocent's consistent presence
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Alongside the tales of the times
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The monks of the presents connection to Maria’s mind


🎸 Interlude:
Dm  F C G  Dm   F  G   Dm


🎸 Bridge:
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If some know nothing, nothing's keeping some from knowing it all
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What nobody saw is anybody's call
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Predispositions turn spaces in men
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Into thirsty pages for a hell bent pen
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Professional victims with recycled lies
        F                G                Dm
Stoking satanic panic in fear addled minds
F                G        F
Maria's awful disclosures


🎸 Chorus:
C     G                   D
Ghost-written pornography tailored to readers
   F                     G              D
In need of a righteous excuse to indulge
F                G         F C
Maria's awful disclosures


🎸 Outro:
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F  G   F C G  Dm
F  G  Dm  F  G  C
G  F C G   F C G