Mermaids chords by Florence + The Machine

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: A

🎸 Intro:

Dm F C x2


🎸 Verse 1:
Dm                    F          G
 I thought that I was hungry for love
Dm              F          G
 Maybe I'm just hungry for blood
Dm                     G
 Sea foam woman on the shore
Am                                C
 Your prairie ghost, I'm a cottage whore
Dm                          G
 All the mermaids have sharp teeth
Am                      C
 Razorblades all in your feet

🎸 Instrumental:
Dm F A
Dm F A G

🎸 Verse 2:
           Dm                F
England is only ever grey or green
                   A                    A
The girls glitter striding glorious and coatless in the rain
Dm                               F
I remember fallin' through these streets
                A                     A
Somewhat out of place, if not for the drunkenness

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
            Dm                     F
It makes my chest hurt to think of it
       A                          A
Not of regret, but of missing that

🎸 Chorus:
         Dm      F
Cheerful oblivion
         A       G
Cheerful oblivion

🎸 Verse 3:
               Dm                           F
It was not all pain and pavement slick with rain
                  Am                           G
And shinin' under lights from shitty clubs and doing shitty drugs
            Dm                                     F   Am      G
And huggin' girls that smelled like Britney Spears and coconuts
              Dm                    F
And with your mermaid hair and your teeth so sharp
    Am                                 G
You crawled from the sea to break that sailor's heart
         Dm                      F
You only get one night up on the shore
   Am                             G
So dance like you've never danced before
        Dm                             F
And the dance floor is filling up with blood
         Am                            G
But, oh, Lord, you've never been so in love

🎸 Chorus:
Dm F         Am     G
   Cheerful oblivion
         Dm      F
Cheerful oblivion
         Am      G
Cheerful oblivion

🎸 Bridge:
    F
And mermaids, they come once a year
     G
They climb the struts of Brighton Pier
     Am
They come to drink, they come to dance
   Em
To sacrifice a human heart
        F                                G
And the world is so much wilder than you think
    Am                                    Am
You haven't seen nothin' 'til you seen an English girl drink

🎸 Chorus:
Dm F         Am     G
   Cheerful oblivion
         Dm      F
Cheerful oblivion
         Am      G
Cheerful oblivion
         Dm      F
Cheerful oblivion
         Am      G
Cheerful oblivion

🎸 Outro:
Dm F A
Dm F A G