The Modern Mary chords by The Good Life

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse:
B minorBm
My mama cried, staring at the stars
G+G
She had once felt so almighty
      D MajorD       F# minorF#m
Now, she’s never felt so small
B minorBm
My mama fell flat back on the floor
G+G
She once had a loving husband
     D MajorD    F# minorF#m
He don’t love her anymore
B minorBm
My mama screamed, “This ungrateful world!”
G+G
Keeps on taking and not giving
   D MajorD        F# minorF#m
Ever since she was a girl
B minorBm
My angry mama pushed everything inside
G+G
She will never let another
     D MajorD      F# minorF#m
Steal the soil of her life

Chorus:
    G+G   E minorEm     B minorBm      G+G
So, she tears away those pages of her diary
     F# minorF#m       A augmentedA
All those sick and sticky memories
 D MajorD          F# minorF#m
“Jesus… some fuckin’ Jesus.”
    C majorC     B minorBm      D MajorD
It’s the same with every guy she meets
         F# minorF#m
Thinkin’ they’re Jesus –
      A augmentedA         B minorBm
She don’t need their goddamn charity

G+G D MajorD F# minorF#m


Verse 2:
B minorBm
My mama cried, staring at her hands
      G+G
Thinking, ‘How could others use these
  D MajorD         F# minorF#m
To shed the blood of man?’
B minorBm
My mama felt guilt-ridden remorse
     G+G
When she thought of those before her
  D MajorD       F# minorF#m
Who suffered even more
B minorBm
My mama laughed, “Everything’s so clear!
  G+G
The woman is the wounded
  D MajorD     F# minorF#m
The man stabs ‘the spear’’!”
B minorBm
My loving mother held her children to her breast
G+G
This world can go fuck itself
    D MajorD   F# minorF#m
She’ll never acquiesce

Chorus:
  G+G   E minorEm   B minorBm      G+G
She tore away the pages of her diary –
F# minorF#m     A augmentedA
Every silly entry
B minorBm  E minorEm    G+G       B minorBm
Tore away the layers of her history
   F# minorF#m          A augmentedA
’Til finally she could see clearly:
D MajorD     C majorC        G+G
Everybody hail the Defiled Mary
  E minorEm            B minorBm
The afterthought of all male martyrdom
A augmentedA
Behind every good man
    B minorBm
Is a messiah story
A augmentedA         G+G       F# minorF#m
I, for one, am as guilty as they come;
A augmentedA            B minorBm
After all, I’m my mama’s son