The Magdalene Laundries chords by Joni Mitchell

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: A augmentedA

♫ 🎸 Intro:

C majorC E minorEm C majorC D MajorD A7sus2


♫ 🎸 Verse 1:
G+G            E minorEm
I was an unmarried girl, I'd just turned twenty-seven
G+G                    E minorEm
When they sent me to the sisters for the way men looked at me
C majorC               E minorEm
Branded as a Jezebel I knew I was not bound for Heaven
    C majorC           D MajorD     A7sus2
I'd be cast in shame into the Magdalene laundries

♫ 🎸 Verse 2:
G+G               E minorEm
Most girls come here pregnant,some by their own fathers
G+G               E minorEm
Bridget got that belly by her parish priest,
C majorC                          E minorEm
We're trying to get things white as snow, all of us woe-begotten daughters
    C majorC            D MajorD     A7sus2
In the streaming stains of the Magdalene laundries


♫ 🎸 Bridge:
C majorC             E minorEm
Prostitutes and destitutes and temptresses like me
C majorC              E minorEm
Fallen women sentenced into dreamless drudgery
C majorC                     E minorEm
Why do they call this heartless place Our Lady of Charity?
  C majorC
Oh, charity


♫ 🎸 Verse 3:
G+G                        E minorEm
These bloodless brides of Jesus If they had just once glimpsed their groom, then they'd know
G+G                         E minorEm
and they'd drop the stones concealed behind their rosaries
C majorC                         E minorEm
They wilt the grass they walk upon they leech the light out of a room
        C majorC               D MajorD     A7sus2
They'd like to drive us down the drain at the Magdalene laundries


♫ 🎸 Verse 4:
G+G             E minorEm
Peg O'Connell died today, she was a cheeky gir, a flirt, they just stuffed her in a hole!
G+G                    E minorEm
Surely to God you'd think at least some bells should ring!
C majorC                       E minorEm
One day I'm going to die here too and they'll plant me in the dirt
C majorC                   E minorEm
Like some lame bulb hat never blooms, come any spring
    G+G    E minorEm G+G E minorEm C majorC E minorEm C majorC
Not any spring