Tom: G minor
Verse 1
Em
B
Em
B
Em
B
All the folks had gathered
Em
B
to see what was in store
E
Em
B
Another test of my strength,
Em
E
B
a new chain had been forged
E
Em
But something in its shimmer
made me sense a trap
E
B
A strange sort of shiver
cracked up my back
Em
It was roots of stones and step of a cat
B
Breath of fish, strange things like that
F#
Am
I said I won't fight that
There's something tricky here
Let me be very clear
B
C
Won't step into this run alone
G
C
Am
I'm needing one brave act
Em
That's all I'm asking here
Am
D
Just one brave act
G
I need a volunteer to be a
sort of guarantee
D
Place your hand here please
C
Em
Oh, oh, oh, oh
B
Ooh
Em
Hey!
B
Ooh
Hey!
B
Em
B
was my trusted friend
Em
From him, the only nourishment
B
Em
B
I'd been given
B
Em
and his touch was light
B
F#
B
His eye unsteady and
he reeked of fright
Em
B
Em
The deal was sealed, the fet ter placed
B
And as I feared, this chain won't break
Am
But no, I won't bite back
D
Resist a little longer, won't bite back
G
But still I wonder what sort of woman
D
G
B
Should I be the one who betrays me
C
B
Em
B
Em
Oh, oh, oh, oh
B
Am
Em
Am
They locked me up
C
D
A
in a desolate place,
G
D
G
D
their sword in my face.
C
G
C
And as I howled and cursed them,
B
Am
E
D
Am
Em
the river flowed from my spit.
G
D
G
and I wouldn't deliver it.
D
G
C
G
They prophesied that I would
C
Am
Em
bring death and calamity,
E
Am
but they were doomed
Em
B
Em
by what they couldn't see,
B
Em
F#
C#m
by their own deeds,
F#m
C#m
B
through their mistreat ment of me.
Am
C
Am
if you want to
Em
keep your monsters at bay,
Am
don't score them with cruelty
that they'll feel compelled
Em
Someday a great poet will say,
F#
everything that lives is holy,
B
and what was done to and through me,
nothing but a story.
Am
C
I said I won't bite back.
B
D
Em
F#m
I said I won't bite down.
B
G
I said I won't
B
C
B
But here we are
Em
G
B
Em
B
F#
Ooh Hey!
B
Em
B
Em
B
F#
B
B
and my father a trickster
But I wasn't raised by them,
not that nature
Em
I wish you wouldn't bait me
B
Em
B
with the same old brush
I didn't even care for my siblings much
Em
My brother was a snake,
my sister a hellcat
B
The blood is thicker than water,
F#
B
you prove that
Em
My brother was a snake,
my sister a hellcat
B
The blood is thicker than water,
I'm on fire
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