Ming The Clam chords by Pearla

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: D

🎸 Verse 1:
        C                F
Well I need to say this out loud
         C             F
Feel it rolling in my ribcage
            C             F
I love you sipping honey beer
             Am
And watching TV on a Tuesday



🎸 Verse 2:
         C             F
I’m not certain about much
         C               F
But I’m certain how we touch
       C                    F
Is compelled by some great force
        Am
Other than us

🎸 Verse 3:
         C               F
And our sky was like a parachute
 C                   F
Big, and blue, and beautiful
     C                  F
And we were just two insects
   Em                  Dm7
Climbing up metallic waterfalls


🎸 Pre-Chorus:
    Em                           Dm7
And I  was keeling over from the shedding of my own wall
  Em                   Dm7
Reminder of my limitations


🎸 Chorus:
    F         C         F
I soak myself in violet
Dm7       C         F
 I  bloom in violet
Dm7       G         F
 I  bloom in violet


🎸 Verse 4:
    C            F
I think about it all the time
     C               F
What if you were to die?
   C              F
A self-indulgent pondering
        Am
Would I call your friends, or would I call mine?


🎸 Verse 5:
    C            F
I study all the little signs
   C               F
Under fluorescent light


🎸 Pre-Chorus:
 Em                               Dm7
Ming the clam, the mystery of the sea

Who lived beyond her time
  Em                       Dm7
Reminder of the grand creation


🎸 Chorus:
     F           C
How did she keep on fighting?
F      Dm7              C
-- How do  you keep on fighting?
F      Dm7              C
-- How do  you keep o fighting?
F      Dm7              G         F
-- How do  you keep on fighting?
            Em                          F
But she was gone before they found her out


🎸 Outro:
    C                F
At night I hear you gasping
       C                   F
I rub peppermint on your chest
     C             F
You vomit on the floor
   C               F
I never loved you more
   C               F
I never loved you more
    Am
Somehow