Murderer chords by The Kooks

Chords with lyrics

Verse1:

    A minorAm              DmDm
She's a murderer, but who planted the seed?
      A minorAm                 DmDm
The pastor baptized her,but the deed he could not clean.
             A minorAm             DmDm
The father tried to be a good man,and the mother kept her child.

Chorus:

DmDm      E minorEm     A minorAm
He cried and begged and wept,
DmDm       E minorEm          A minorAm
As she pierced the knife through his heart,
DmDm      E minorEm     A minorAm
But who could blame the child,
G+G
To cast the first stone.
        A minorAm
Oh, now she's a murderer.
      DmDm
Now she's a murderer.

Verse2:

        A minorAm          DmDm
She was always looking for a way out not in.
C majorC           A minorAm              DmDm
The church became her prison, for her it only held sin.
             A minorAm                DmDm
She cried, "Daddy, why am I so sad? I've never done nothing wrong."
                 A minorAm                DmDm
He said, "You got the blood of an evil man, but you've got to stay strong"

Chorus:

          DmDm    E minorEm     A minorAm
She watched as he cried and begged and wept,
  DmDm       E minorEm        A minorAm
As she pierced the knife through his heart,
  DmDm     E minorEm    A minorAm
But who could blame the child,
  G+G
To cast the first stone.
        A minorAm            DmDm   E minorEm
Oh, now she's a murderer. Now she's a murderer.

Verse3:

A minorAm     DmDm     C majorC
A minorAm     DmDm
             A minorAm                DmDm
She cried, "Daddy, why am I so sad? I've never done nothing wrong."
                 A minorAm                DmDm
He said, "You got the blood of an evil man, but you've got to stay strong, strong, strong, strong!."

Bridge:

A minorAm            DmDm
Jesus is my Buddha, and Buddha is Muhammad,
A minorAm              DmDm         C majorC
Buddha is my Jesus, and nothing will divide us.

Chorus:

  DmDm     E minorEm     A minorAm
He cried and begged and wept,
   DmDm      E minorEm        A minorAm
As she pierced the knife through his heart,
   DmDm     E minorEm     A minorAm
But who could blame the child,
  G+G
To cast the first stone oh,to cast the first stone.
       A minorAm          DmDm
Oh, now she's a murderer, now she's a murderer.