Paper Gown chords by Caroline Herring

Caroline Herring - Paper Gown


INTRO: Am  G  Am

           C           G            Am
Small town stars shine bright for a day
         C           G      Am      G
The moon lights up a watery grave
                  C          G
Woods move in the night time breeze
     C              E7               Am
That lifts from the lake through the trees


       C            G        Am
On the night that defined my name
     C     G            Am   G
Fantasy or monster, you say
                         C       G
Watched my boys ride the incline down
C         E7    Am      C
All for a paper gown

CHORUS:
           G           C
Long ago I used to be
                    F             C
A little girl on my daddy's knee
                G
Dreams lie like diamond rings
Am         E      Am       C  G  Am
Babies and pretty things


             C        G     Am
I watched my car sink silently
           C          G        Am        G
My lover's sweatshirt wrapped around me
                  C          G
On a black man, I blamed the crime
     C         E7          Am
With moans and screams and cries


       C          G      Am
Then I waited for him to call
              C      G          Am    G
My ready-made family gone after all
                           C  G
While the world mourned an alibi
C          E7     Am    C
My hopes began to die


CHORUS:
           G           C
Long ago I used to be
                    F             C
A little girl on my daddy's knee
                G
Dreams lie like diamond rings
Am         E      Am       C  G  Am
Babies and pretty things


BRIDGE:
F      Am
Day by day
        G               Am
All the promises faded away
F          C
No one but me
   Dm           E7  Am
Controls my destiny___


INSTRUMENTAL: C  G  Am   C  G  Am   C  G  Am  G    Am


            C      G       Am
The sheriff sat me down to pray
                     C      G      Am         G
At the First Baptist Church on the ninth day
                  C          G
?Susan, make your conscience clean?
          C           E7       Am
?Sheriff, I've done a terrible thing?


     C            G          Am
I confessed that, for love's sake
             C           G       Am         G
I drowned my children in John D. Long Lake
                    C       G
They're with Jesus, looking down
   C          E7    Am    C
At me in this paper gown


CHORUS:
           G           C
Long ago I used to be
                    F             C
A little girl on my daddy's knee
                G
Dreams lie like diamond rings
Am         E      Am       C
Babies and pretty things


CHORUS:
           G           C
Long ago I used to be
                   F                  C
A little girl with dreams I believed
                G
Dreams lie like diamond rings
Am         E      Am       C  G  D  Am  E  Am