She Awoke With A Jerk chords by The Handsome Family

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Gm

Difficulty: Novice

She Awoke with a Jerk
From the album Odessa

Intro:
G5 F5 Eb5 C5

Verse 1:
G5         F5
She awoke with a jerk
Eb5            C5
What had they done?
G5         F5
She awoke with the shock
Eb5            C5
What had they begun?
G5        F5
She awoke to the sound
         Eb5         C5
of their blue-white laughter
G5               F5
Hot in her hands
        Eb5         C5
and an idea for a chapter

Chorus:
Bb5     A5          G5
All she wanted was fame
    Bb5         A5      G5
or playing the marital game
Bb5        A5          G5
Maybe she just wanted love
      Bb5            A5         G5
when death came and gave her a shove

Interlude:
G5 F5 Eb5 C5

Verse 2:
G5         F5
She awoke under the house
    Eb5           C5
two nights after fall
G5                 F5
Another screw loose
        Eb5             C5
in the space they call crawl
G5         F5
She awoke and she thought,
Eb5           C5
where is the sky?
G5                  F5
It's funny you know
 Eb5      C5
how time flies

Chorus:
Bb5       A5            G5
And she thought it was mud
Bb5     A5            G5
Always gave him her blood
Bb5      A5       G5
All she wanted to do
    Bb5     A5        G5
was gaze up into the blue

Interlude:
G5 F5 Eb5 C5

Verse 3:
G5         F5
She awoke with a jerk
Eb5           C5
What had she done?
G5         F5
She awoke with the shock
Eb5            C5
What had she begun?
G5        F5
She awoke to the sound
   Eb5        C5
of people who asked her
G5                F5
What do you want?
     Eb5          C5
What is it you're after?

Chorus:
Bb5      A5       G5
All she wanted to do
     Bb5            A5             G5
was tell him, "You bastard, I'm through--
Bb5          A5         G5
can't do no more black shoe,
         Bb5           A5        G5
with my nerves burning electric blue"

Outro:
G5 F5 Eb5 C5 (x4)