Mamah Borthwick A Sketch chords by Conor Oberst

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

[Intro]
C Am G F

[Verse]
C            Em
Just because you got it

You don't have to flaunt it
    F        C   G
With an endless dream of famous men
C          Em
Pretty as a portrait

Looked like Mamah Northwick
    F        C  G F
On that Shining Brow of Taliesin

[Chorus]
F           C
Someone might try and burn it down
Em            F  G
So you'll have to put the fire out
C    G   C       F     Am  Em        F   G    C
Fortunes spent but that's irrelevant to build something that's sacred till the end

[Interlude]
C Am G F

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

[Chorus]
F         C
And it would take a time machine
Em          F  G
To fulfill all of my fantasies
C        G  C     F
'Cause a hidden dream can be embarrassing
     Am Em      F   G    C
And the only thing that's sacred till the end

[Interlude]
C Am G F

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

[Chorus]
F      C
A rumination in my mind
Em              F   G
Winding like the ramp at the Guggenheim
C      G  C
I'm not content
        F      Am  Em        F   G    C
But I'm feeling hesitant to build something that's sacred till the end

[Outro]
C Am G F