Paper Gown chords by Caroline Herring

Chords with lyrics

Caroline Herring - Paper Gown


INTRO: A minorAm G+G A minorAm

      C majorC      G+G      A minorAm
Small town stars shine bright for a day
     C majorC      G+G   A minorAm   G+G
The moon lights up a watery grave
         C majorC     G+G
Woods move in the night time breeze
   C majorC       E7E7        A minorAm
That lifts from the lake through the trees


    C majorC      G+G    A minorAm
On the night that defined my name
   C majorC   G+G      A minorAm  G+G
Fantasy or monster, you say
             C majorC    G+G
Watched my boys ride the incline down
C majorC     E7E7  A minorAm   C majorC
All for a paper gown

CHORUS:
      G+G      C majorC
Long ago I used to be
          FF       C majorC
A augmentedA little girl on my daddy's knee
        G+G
Dreams lie like diamond rings
A minorAm     E MajorE   A minorAm    C majorC G+G A minorAm
Babies and pretty things


       C majorC    G+G   A minorAm
I watched my car sink silently
      C majorC     G+G    A minorAm    G+G
My lover's sweatshirt wrapped around me
         C majorC     G+G
On a black man, I blamed the crime
   C majorC     E7E7     A minorAm
With moans and screams and cries


    C majorC     G+G   A minorAm
Then I waited for him to call
       C majorC   G+G     A minorAm  G+G
My ready-made family gone after all
              C majorC G+G
While the world mourned an alibi
C majorC     E7E7   A minorAm  C majorC
My hopes began to die

CHORUS:
      G+G      C majorC
Long ago I used to be
          FF       C majorC
A augmentedA little girl on my daddy's knee
        G+G
Dreams lie like diamond rings
A minorAm     E MajorE   A minorAm    C majorC G+G A minorAm
Babies and pretty things


BRIDGE:
FF   A minorAm
Day by day
    G+G        A minorAm
All the promises faded away
FF     C majorC
No one but me
  DmDm      E7E7 A minorAm
Controls my destiny___


INSTRUMENTAL: C majorC G+G A minorAm  C majorC G+G A minorAm  C majorC G+G A minorAm G+G  A minorAm


      C majorC   G+G    A minorAm
The sheriff sat me down to pray
           C majorC   G+G   A minorAm     G+G
At the First Baptist Church on the ninth day
         C majorC     G+G
?Susan, make your conscience clean?
     C majorC      E7E7    A minorAm
?Sheriff, I've done a terrible thing?


   C majorC      G+G     A minorAm
I confessed that, for love's sake
       C majorC      G+G    A minorAm     G+G
I drowned my children in John D. Long Lake
          C majorC    G+G
They're with Jesus, looking down
  C majorC     E7E7  A minorAm  C majorC
At me in this paper gown


CHORUS:
      G+G      C majorC
Long ago I used to be
          FF       C majorC
A augmentedA little girl on my daddy's knee
        G+G
Dreams lie like diamond rings
A minorAm     E MajorE   A minorAm    C majorC
Babies and pretty things


CHORUS:
      G+G      C majorC
Long ago I used to be
          FF         C majorC
A augmentedA little girl with dreams I believed
        G+G
Dreams lie like diamond rings
A minorAm     E MajorE   A minorAm    C majorC G+G D MajorD A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm