Woman Of The Phoenix chords by Nanci Griffith

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

♫ Intro:

E MajorE A augmentedA E MajorE A augmentedA E MajorE


♫ Verse 1:
E MajorE
Well
I've listend tothe words you lovers speak
A augmentedA          E MajorE
The sound of the lover's song
And I've dreamed all the dreams that a wayward girl dreams
A augmentedA        E MajorE
In a thousand places gone
F# minorF#m
Dallas was my late night out
A augmentedA               E MajorE
Radcliffe's served to roust me out
A augmentedA        D MajorD             E MajorE
And Houston lay like Cleavland with the color removed
A augmentedA   E MajorE  F# minorF#m
All I ever wanted
A augmentedA   G# minorG#m  BB
Was to wander and be wooed
A augmentedA      F# minorF#m
Like a Woman of the Phoenix.
 BB       E MajorE           A augmentedA  E MajorE
A augmentedA welcomed Waterloo ooh, a ooh, ooh a ooh, ooh
A augmentedA     E MajorE
ooh a ooh, ooh a ooh, ooh a ooh, ooh
           A augmentedA     E MajorE  A augmentedA  E MajorE  A augmentedA  E MajorE
ooh a ooh, ooh a ooh, ooh a ooh, ooh

♫ Verse 2:
E MajorE
I've seen the sun blaze the breast of the countryside
A augmentedA          E MajorE
I've seen her huddled in a winter freeze
And I've run cross paths of a thousand lives
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Among the cactus and the white birch trees
F#m7F#m7
Avloc ran a waterfront bar
A augmentedA        E MajorE
Vito, he was the king of theives
D MajorD          E MajorE
And Michael was a rock 'n roll hood from the Odessa plains
F#m7F#m7
All of them were my kind
A augmentedA    G# minorG#m    BB
Wild and damn near free
A augmentedA      F# minorF#m      BB       E MajorE  A augmentedA  E MajorE
But, a Woman of the Phoenix is the medicine they ne--------ed.
           A augmentedA     E MajorE
ooh a ooh, ooh a ooh, ooh a ooh, ooh
           A augmentedA     E MajorE  A augmentedA  E MajorE
ooh a ooh, ooh a ooh, ooh a ooh, ooh