Rabbit Fur Coat tab by Jenny Lewis

Tuning: Standard

Chords: C, Am, D G

Intro:

  C    Am   C   Am   C    G    C
e|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----1-1-------------1-1-------------1-1------------1-1---1--------------|
G|----0-0-----2-2-----0-0-----2-2-----0-0------------0-0---0--------------|
D|------------2-2-------------2-2--------------------------2--------------|
A|--3-------0-------3-------0-------3--------0--2--3-------3--------------|
E|-----------------------------------------3------------------------------|

Verses

  C     Am    C    Am     C      Am     D
e|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----1-1----------------1-1----------------------1--1---------------3-3--|
G|----0-0-------2-2------0-0-----2-2--------------0--0---2----2------2-2--|
D|--------------2-2--------------2-2---------------------2----2----0------|
A|--3---------0--------3-------0----------3------------0------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  i  was  of poor folk,   but my mother had a rabbit fur coat


  G     G       G      C     C     C
e|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----0-0----------0---0------0---0------------------1---1-------1-1------|
G|----0-0----------0---0------0---0------------------0---0-------0-0------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--2-------------------------------------------3-----------3-------------|
E|------------3------------3----------------------------------------------|

    and a girl of less character pushed her down the LA river


  C      G     C    Am     C   Am
e|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------1----1------------------1-1------------1-1-----------------------|
G|-------0----0------------------0-0---2-2------0-0-----2-2---------------|
D|-------------------------------------2-2--------------2-2---------------|
A|-----3-------------0---2---3--------0--------3------0-------------------|
E|-----------------3------------------------------------------------------|

"hand o ver that rabbit fur coat"...



[repeat the same thing for the rest of the verses:]





C   Am   C  Am
I was of poor folk,
    C      Am     D  G
but my mother had a rabbit fur coat.
   G      G          C      C
And a girl of less character pushed her down the LA river.
   C     G     C  Am C Am
"Hand over that rabbit fur coat"

     C   Am  C   Am
She put a knife to her throat
   C     Am     D   G
'Hand over that rabbit fur coat'
    G   G           C      C
When my ma refused, the girl kicked dirt on her blouse.
   C      G    C   Am C Am
"Stay away from my mansion house."

  C       Am      C  Am
My mother really suffered for that.
     C     Am     D  G
Spent her life in a gold plated body cast.
G    G      C       C
Now, you ask, did she get that girl back?
  C           G    C  Am C Am
She payed a visit to that mansion house.

       C  Am   C   Am
She knew the girl was not there,
    C       Am       D         G
but her father was in cufflinks with slicked-back black hair
  G     G       C   G
He invited her in. They never sang a note,
    C       G     C  Am C Am
but she took off that rabbit fur coat.

  C     Am     C  Am
And who do you think came home?
C  Am   D  G
Miss So and So
       G     G    C      C
She took one look at my mama and what did she say?
       C        G    C
"Why are you stealing from my mansion house?"

      C       Am   C Am
"No, I'm in love with Mr. So and So
  C     Am    D    G
He invited me in. I'm a girl no more."
G    G       C     C
Then she dragged my ma out by her throat.
   C     G     C   Am C Am
"Hand over that rabbit fur coat."

C        Am      C     Am
Let's move ahead twenty years, shall we?
    C       Am        D       G
She was waitressing on welfare. We were living in the Valley.
    G     G         C      C
A lady says to my ma "you treat your girl as your spouse.
    C     G    C
You can live in a mansion house."

C  Am  C  Am
And so we did,
  C     Am        D   G
and I became a hundred-thousand-dollar kid.
      G       G         C (strum once      (pause)
When I was old enough to realize; wiped the dust from my mother's eyes...
     C       G     C   Am C Am
It's all this for that rabbit fur coat.

  C    Am   C    Am
But I'm not bitter about it
   C      Am       D     G
I've packed up my things and let them have at it,
    G    G       C     C
and the fortune faded, as fortunes often do,
  C      G    C   Am C Am
and so did that mansion house.

    C    Am      C  Am
Where my ma is now, I don't know.
    C       Am     D       G
She was living in her car. I was living on the road,
   G      G      C      C
and I hear she's putting that stuff up her nose,
     C      G     C  Am C Am
and still wearing that rabbit fur coat.

  C      Am C   Am
But mostly I'm a hypocrite
    C        Am  D  G
I sing songs about the defecit,
      G         G
but when I sell out and leave Omaha,
C      C (strum, pause)
what will I get?
     C      G     C   C
a mansion house and a rabbit fur coat.






:D The End. this song is amazing.


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