Dear Old House chords by Amanda Palmer

Chords with lyrics

C majorC            Fsus2Fsus2
dear old house that I grew up in
C majorC             Fsus2Fsus2
I know that I'll leave you any day
C majorC             Fsus2Fsus2
dear old house that I grew up in
G+G               Fsus2Fsus2
can't you find a way to make em stay?

Fsus2Fsus2
and all the girls I went to school with
walked downtown with all the cool kids
   C majorC
I was staked out in your cellar
making friends with dead umbrella
     Fsus2Fsus2
and every creak of every floorboard
                  G+G
tells the story of the girl I stuck inside
and if they move away
            Fsus2Fsus2     Fsus4Fsus4
I'll have no place to  hide

C majorC             Fsus2Fsus2
dear old house that I grew up in
G+G            Fsus2Fsus2
I've never really been in love
C majorC              Fsus2Fsus2
you took my heart when I was a child
        G+G              Fsus2Fsus2
noises wrapped around my little body like a winter glove
you're just a random set of objects
in a town that's filled with sadness
    C majorC
in the armpit of the world
you're chopped down trees and rotting soil
     Fsus2Fsus2
and if I wanted to I'd keep you
I'd fill you up and heat you
     G+G
with the market how it is, Amanda
                Fsus2Fsus2  Fsus4Fsus4
well you know, the price of ... oil

B-maj       E minorEm         C majorC        G+G
Goodbye stairs, and goodbye stars on painted walls at home
B-maj      E minorEm        C majorC        G+G
attic door, and banister, I'll miss you most of all
B-maj         E minorEm         C majorC         G+G
you were supposed to keep me safe, this wasn't supposed to end
B-maj      E minorEm      C majorC    G+G    Fsus2Fsus2
does it sound ridiculous, to call you my best friend?

C majorC             Fsus2Fsus2
dear old house that I grew up in
G+G              Fsus2Fsus2
I know I haven't visited that much
C majorC                     Fsus2Fsus2
but, every lifeless hotel and apartment I walk into
   G+G                     Fsus2Fsus2
just reminds me of the doorknobs that I want to touch
I won't miss you, when they sell you
to some evil yuppie couple
     C majorC
with the child who'll put Miley Cyrus posters in my bedroom

Fsus2Fsus2
I am a native of the north
I am a rockstar on the road
I am now permanently located in each place I am known
    G+G
but it doesn't feel like anywhere
             Fsus2Fsus2     Fsus4Fsus4
when you can't go back... home

C majorC             Fsus2Fsus2
dear old house that I grew up in
G+G                Fsus2Fsus2
I know it isn't your fault this panned out,
C majorC                Fsus2Fsus2
please don't take it personally, PS,
     G+G
Tell the evil yuppie couple
Fsus2Fsus2            C majorC
When I'm rich, I'll buy you back.

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Can also be played on the Ukulele
Fsus: http://chordlist.brian-amberg.de/en/ukulele/standard/Fsus/print.html