Mona And Emmy chords by Frontier Ruckus

Chords with lyrics

CAPO ON 1

G+G C majorC G+G
G MajorG E minorEm C majorC
G+G C majorC G+G
E minorEm Amaj C majorC G+G
E minorEm Amaj C majorC G+G

[VERSE]
G+G                   C majorC       G+G
Mona's buying milk and honey from the summer bins in Milford Market.

G+G                    E minorEm
Outside the door at six, the green bulb clicks,

C majorC
On.

G+G               C majorC        G+G
I work nine to five around the hiss of the ice box compartment,

E minorEm        Amaj       C majorC        G+G
When I punch out I want to set the night to bitter flames a-lickin'

E minorEm        Amaj          C majorC        G+G
The town and all the passion strickened down.

[CHORUS]
C majorC         G+G         D MajorD         A minorAm
And Emmy's twenty years removed now, from that morning in July,

C majorC                G+G
When her father held her in his arms.

C majorC            G+G           D MajorD       A minorAm
And dipped her freckled neck down' 'neath the river water as flies,

   C majorC      A augmentedA
Were darkening the brightness

  C majorC       A augmentedA
And all of the baptismal whiteness

  C majorC         A augmentedA
But darlin' all those of our likeness

   C majorC
Were born so very ready to live.

G+G
And to die.

[VERSE]
G+G
I know my way through the neighborhoods

   C majorC       G+G
From Mona's house to the interstate.

G+G                    E minorEm    C majorC
I know my way to the greatest things we got

G+G
The travelin' acts they leave their sounds

   C majorC         G+G
For railroad tracks in other towns,

E MajorE           Amaj
But I want to hold to something longer

C majorC         G+G
Something meaner, something stronger

E MajorE      Amaj      C majorC      G+G
At eleven thirty the town's alone, again.

[CHORUS]
C majorC         G+G
And Emmy used to say she loved me,

D MajorD       A minorAm
Used to be oh so proud of me,

C majorC               G+G
When she saw her father in my eyes.

C majorC            G+G           D MajorD      A minorAm
When I dipped her golden head down 'neath the river water swimmin',

C majorC            A augmentedA
The pine shine all was dimmin'

C majorC            A augmentedA
The kitchen panes were pitch-dark within

C majorC            A augmentedA
And I thought we were only kidding till

C majorC
        Your father cried.

G+G

[PLAY VERSE 1x DURING BANJO SOLO]


[VERSE]
G+G                   C majorC       G+G
Mona, you're my only friend, we could take the interstate;

G+G                  E MajorE        C majorC
Though you know the interstate deadends.

G+G
Will it lead us to the milk and honey,

    C majorC      G+G
Is the Promised Land just a funny

E MajorE        Amaj       C majorC   G+G
Way to say the strangeness never ceases?

E MajorE           Amaj     C majorC    G+G
'Cause Emmy, you have baptized me to pieces.