Chords with lyrics
If No One Ever Marries Me - Natalie Merchant
From the album 'Leave Your Sleep' (2010)
Lyrics from a poem by Laurence Alma-Tadema (1865-1940)
Chorded by Leonard
The first G+G chords in intro and verses need some variation on the B-string: 3 to 1 to 0.
E minorEm
G+G
Well if no one ever marries me
C majorC
And I don't see why they should
D MajorD
Nurse says I'm not pretty
E minorEm
And you know I'm seldom good, seldom good
G+G
Well if no one ever marries me
C majorC
I shan't mind very much
D MajorD
I'll buy a squirrel in a cage
G+G
And a little rabbit-hutch
C majorC
If no one marries me
D MajorD
If no one marries me
C majorC
If no one marries me
D MajorD
If no one marries me
E minorEm
Well if no one marries me
G+G
I'll have a cottage near a wood
C majorC
And a pony all my own
D MajorD
A augmentedA little lamb quite clean and tame
G+G
That I can take to town
G+G
When I'm really getting old
C majorC
At twenty-eight or nine
D MajorD
I'll buy myself a little orphan-girl
G+G
And bring her up as mine
C majorC
If no one marries me
D MajorD
If no one marries me
C majorC
If no one marries me
D MajorD
No one marries me
C majorC
Well if no one marries me
D MajorD
Marries me
C majorC
Well if no one marries me
D MajorD
Marries me
E minorEm
Well if no one marries me