Mamah Borthwick A Sketch chords by Conor Oberst

Chords with lyrics

Note: If you would like to play harmonica with this song, use a key of G+G harmonica.

[Intro]
C majorC A minorAm G+G FF

[Verse]
C majorC            E minorEm
Just because you got it

You don't have to flaunt it
    FF        C majorC   G+G
With an endless dream of famous men
C majorC          E minorEm
Pretty as a portrait

Looked like Mamah Northwick
    FF        C majorC  G+G FF
On that Shining Brow of Taliesin

[Chorus]
FF           C majorC
Someone might try and burn it down
E minorEm            FF  G+G
So you'll have to put the fire out
C majorC    G+G   C majorC       FF     A minorAm  E minorEm        FF   G+G    C majorC
Fortunes spent but that's irrelevant to build something that's sacred till the end

[Interlude]
C majorC A minorAm G+G FF

[Verse]
C majorC           E minorEm
It cost twenty dollars to visit Fallingwater
     FF          C majorC   G+G
It's the perfect house where no one lives
C majorC           E minorEm             FF        C majorC   G+G  FF
Maybe someone once did but they got evicted by a busload full of greedy tourists

[Chorus]
FF         C majorC
And it would take a time machine
E minorEm          FF  G+G
To fulfill all of my fantasies
C majorC        G+G  C majorC     FF
'Cause a hidden dream can be embarrassing
     A minorAm E minorEm      FF   G+G    C majorC
And the only thing that's sacred till the end

[Interlude]
C majorC A minorAm G+G FF

[Verse]
C majorC
Every time I tempt fate
E minorEm
There's a major earthquake
     FF          C majorC    G+G
Heard the people scream as the ceiling fell
C majorC
Every building damaged
E minorEm
Only one left standing
    FF            C majorC G+G  FF
It was Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel

[Chorus]
FF      C majorC
A augmentedA rumination in my mind
E minorEm              FF   G+G
Winding like the ramp at the Guggenheim
C majorC      G+G  C majorC
I'm not content
        FF      A minorAm  E minorEm        FF   G+G    C majorC
But I'm feeling hesitant to build something that's sacred till the end

[Outro]
C majorC A minorAm G+G FF