Wallowa Lake Monster chords by Sufjan Stevens

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 5th

Tuning: EADGBE

Chords:

  B minorBm  E MajorE  D/F#D/F# Cadd9Cadd9  D5D5  E minorEm Dsus2Dsus2 A augmentedA  G+G  FF  C majorC  D MajorD  F# minorF#m  C# minorC#m
e|--2---0----5------5-----5----3-----0----0---3---1---0----2----2-----4------|
BB|--3---0----3------3-----3----0-----3----2---3---1---1----3----2-----5------|
G+G|--4---1----2------4-----2----0-----2----2---0---2---0----2----2-----6------|
D MajorD|--4---2----4------5-----0----2-----0----2---0---3---2----4----4-----6------|
A augmentedA|--2---2----x------x-----x----2-----x----0---2---3---3----5----4-----4------|
E MajorE|------0----x------x-----x----0-----x--------3---1---3---------2------------|


Intro:
Chords relative to Capo on 5th fret:
B minorBm E MajorE D/F#D/F#
Cadd9Cadd9 D5D5 E minorEm
Dsus2Dsus2

Verse 1:
B minorBm         E MajorE        D/F#D/F#
As if you know the story of Wallowa Lake
        Cadd9Cadd9   D5D5       E minorEm
Leviathan first hid in the deep where her children sleep
       Dsus2Dsus2
She kept them hidden from the plague
B minorBm           E MajorE          D/F#D/F#
But have you heard the story of my mother's fate?
        Cadd9Cadd9     D5D5     E minorEm
She left us in Detroit in the rain with a pillowcase
    Dsus2Dsus2
Fortune for the paperweight


Verse 2:
B minorBm         E MajorE            D/F#D/F#
We followed her to Joseph, near the Indian raid
          Cadd9Cadd9      D5D5      E minorEm
She wept among the weeds, hide and seek, for the fallen chief
   Dsus2Dsus2
Spathiphyllum on his grave
B minorBm         E MajorE             D/F#D/F#
And like the cedar waxwing, she was drunk all day
         Cadd9Cadd9     D5D5       E minorEm
We put her in the sheet, little wreath, candles on the crate
    Dsus2Dsus2
As the monster showed its face

Chorus 1:
A augmentedA   G+G
As she waits for her children in the shade
FF       E minorEm
Demogorgon or demigod the ghost parade
FF        C majorC           A augmentedA
No oblation will bring her back to our place


Interlude:
Starts with the A augmentedA chord over 'place':
A augmentedA E MajorE G+G D MajorD FF C majorC D MajorD


Verse 3:
B minorBm          E MajorE          D/F#D/F#
She stayed within the deep end of Wallowa Lake
       Cadd9Cadd9       D5D5     E minorEm
The undertow refrained with the flame of a feathered snake
     Dsus2Dsus2
Charybdis in its shallow grave
B minorBm          E MajorE              D/F#D/F#
She gave us one last feature, the fullness of her face
         Cadd9Cadd9    D5D5     E minorEm
In the shade of "Hin-mah-too-yah", Red Napoleon
    Dsus2Dsus2
As the demon took her place


Chorus 2:
A augmentedA   G+G
As we wait for the waters to reside
FF       E minorEm
Her remarkable stoicism and her pride
FF              C majorC      A augmentedA
When the dragon submerged we knew she had died


Instrumental Outro:
E MajorE G+G D MajorD
A augmentedA E MajorE G+G D MajorD x6:

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