Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
Intro:
Gm7Gm7 FF Ebmaj7Ebmaj7 Dsus4Dsus4 D7D7
Gm7Gm7 G minorGm FF Ebmaj7Ebmaj7 DmDm D7D7
Verse 1:
G minorGm
There is a woman in Somalia
FF
Scraping for pearls on the roadside
Eb MajorEb Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
There's a force stronger than nature
D MajorD D7D7
Keeps her will alive
G minorGm
This is how she's dying
FF
She's dying to survive
Eb MajorEb
Don't know what she's made of
Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
I would like to be that brave
Chorus:
Dm7Dm7 Cm7Cm7 Dm7Dm7
She cries to the heaven above
Cm7Cm7 Dm7Dm7
There is a stone in my heart
Cm7Cm7 Dm7Dm7
She lives a life she didn't choose
Cm7Cm7 Dm7Dm7 D7D7
And it hurts like brand-new shoes
G minorGm Gm7Gm7 FF Ebmaj7Ebmaj7 D MajorD D7D7
Hurts like brand-new shoes
Verse 2:
G minorGm
There is a woman in Somalia
FF
The sun gives her no mercy
Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
The same sky we lay under
D MajorD Dsus4Dsus4 D7D7
Burns her to the bone
Gm7Gm7
Long as afternoon shadows
FF
It's gonna take her to get home
Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
Each grain carefully wrapped up
Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
Pearls for her little girl
Bridge:
G minorGm FF
Hallelujah
Ebmaj7Ebmaj7 D5D5 D MajorD
Hallelujah
Chorus:
Cm7Cm7 Dm7Dm7
She cries to the heaven above
Cm7Cm7 Dm7Dm7
There is a stone in my heart
Cm7Cm7 Dm7Dm7
She lives in a world she didn't choose
Cm7Cm7 DmDm
And it hurts like brand-new shoes
D7D7 Gm7Gm7 FF Eb MajorEb D MajorD D7D7
Hurts like brand-new shoes
G minorGm FF Eb MajorEb D MajorD
G minorGm