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Origin of Love
>From 'Hediwg and the Angry Inch'
Chord Voicings
D5 D/B Aadd9 G Bm A Em F#m Ab
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Intro
D D/B Aadd9
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G G/D Gadd6
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G (When the Earth...)
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D
When the earth ..
D/B
And the clouds ..
Aadd9
And mountains...
G
Sometimes ...
G
Folks roamed ...
D
They had two sets ...
F#m G
They had two ...
Em
So they could ....
A
As they talked; ...
G A D
And they never knew nothing of love.
G A
It was before the origin of love.
D G D G
The origin of love
Bm
And there were three ...
D
Glued up back to back,
G
Called the children of the ...
D
And similar in...
D
They looked like two girls
G
Rolled up in one.
A
And the children ...
Bm
Were like a fork...
C#m
They were part ...
A
Part daughter, part son.
D G D G
The origin of love
D
Now the gods...
D/B
Of our strength...
G
And Thor said,
G
"I'm ...
G
With my hammer,
G
Like ...
G
And...
D
Use my lightening...
F#m
Then he grabbed .
G
And he let ...
Em
Said, "I'll split them right ...
A
Gonna cut them right ...
G A D
And then storm clouds gathered above
G
Into great balls of fire
Bm
And then fire...
G
Of a knife.
Bm
And it ripped
G
And the earth.
Bm
And some Indian god
G
To remind ...
Bm
And Osiris ...
G
Gathered up a big storm
Em
To blow a hurricane,
Bm
To scatter us away,
G
In a flood of wind and rain,
Em
And a sea of tidal waves,
Bm
To wash us all away,
G
And if we don't behave
Em
They'll cut us down again
Ab G
And we'll be hopping round on one foot
D G
And looking through one eye.
[Break] PLay Twice
D Em
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D
Last...
Bm
We had just...
G
You were looking...
A
I was looking...
D
You had a way...
Bm
But I could...
G
Cause you had blood...
A
I had blood...
D
But I could swear...
Bm
That the pain...
G A
Was the same as the one...
D
That's the pain,
Bm
Cuts a straight line
G
Down through the heart;
A
We called it love.
D
So we wrapped our arms...
Bm
Trying to shove ourselves...
G
We were making love,
A
Making love.
D
It was a cold...
Bm
Such a long time ago,
G A
When by the mighty hand of Jove,
D
It was the sad story
Bm
How we became
G
Lonely two-legged creatures,
A
It's the story of
D G
The origin of love.
D G
That's the origin of love.
Tabbed by Mark Cunningham
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