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Maine Island Lovers chords by Okkervil River

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Finger picking pattern for intro and verse:


   Chord diagramA augmentedA             Chord diagramE MajorE           Bm7/A           Chord diagramD MajorD
e|-0-------0-----0-------0-----2-------2-----2-------3-2-0-|
b|-2---2-------2-0---0-------0-3---3-------3-3---3---------|
Chord diagramG+G|-2-----2-------1-----1-------4-----4-------2-----2-------|
Chord diagramD MajorD|-2-------------2-------------4-------------0-------------|
Chord diagramA augmentedA|-0-------------2-------------0-------------X-------------|
Chord diagramE MajorE|-X-------------0-------------X-------------X-------------|


Intro:
(finger pick)

Chord diagramA augmentedA Chord diagramE MajorE Bm7/A Chord diagramD MajorD x2
Verse 1:
(continue finger picking)


   Chord diagramA augmentedA              Chord diagramE MajorE                 Bm7/A                Chord diagramD MajorD
To cheat on Maine islands — days of laughter, nights of sighing


   Chord diagramA augmentedA            Chord diagramE MajorE                   Bm7/A           Chord diagramD MajorD
To love without ceasing — flowering orchards, salty sea-things


   Chord diagramA augmentedA           Chord diagramE MajorE               Bm7/A           Chord diagramD MajorD
To say without shyness “unreal city, you have killed me”


Chorus:
(strum)


          Chord diagramF#5F#5          Chord diagramE5E5              Bm7/A          Chord diagramD MajorD
When you walked out on her love was it easy?


       Chord diagramF#5F#5             Chord diagramE5E5            Bm7/A          Chord diagramD MajorD
When I left him while sleeping was I dreaming?


Verse 2:
(finger pick)
   Chord diagramA augmentedA                 Chord diagramE MajorE              Bm7/A      Chord diagramD MajorD
We take each night's journey to the hotel in a hurry


         Chord diagramA augmentedA            Chord diagramE MajorE          Bm7/A                Chord diagramD MajorD
Where we love without worry on a bed that's five days dirty


       Chord diagramA augmentedA            Chord diagramE MajorE            Bm7/A           Chord diagramD MajorD
And we read without irony from a book my husband bought for me


Chorus:
(strum)


       Chord diagramF#5F#5          Chord diagramE5E5             Bm7/A          Chord diagramD MajorD
When I fell on the concrete it was lovely


                  Chord diagramF#5F#5              Chord diagramE5E5        Bm7/A          Chord diagramD MajorD
Because you could see what's been running so hot in me


           Chord diagramF#5F#5          Chord diagramE5E5                Bm7/A       Chord diagramD MajorD
But when I fell on the concrete, you went white as a sheet


                Chord diagramF#5F#5             Chord diagramE5E5               Bm7/A                Chord diagramD MajorD
And wished that nothing in this world would ever hurt me. Well, keep wishing


Verse 3:
(finger pick or lightly strum)


               Chord diagramA augmentedA          Chord diagramE MajorE               Bm7/A             Chord diagramD MajorD
Because when I look in my future, I don't see you and don't wish to


     Chord diagramA augmentedA                  Chord diagramE MajorE             Bm7/A              Chord diagramD MajorD
Idle talk made when I'm lying by your side on some Maine island


          Chord diagramA augmentedA            Chord diagramE MajorE               Bm7/A          Chord diagramD MajorD
It's too funny to me, honey, so let's drop it



       Chord diagramF#5F#5             Chord diagramE5E5                 Bm7/A          Chord diagramD MajorD
If you really want to love me, well, then do it


       Chord diagramF#5F#5             Chord diagramE5E5                 Bm7/A         Chord diagramD MajorD
If you really want to love me, well, then do it

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