Verse
B E B
Mona's buying milk and honey from the summer bins in Milford Market.
B G#m
Outside the door at six, the green bulb clicks,
E
On.
B E B
I work nine to five around the hiss of the ice box compartment,
G#m C#maj E B
When I punch out I want to set the night to bitter flames a-lickin'
G#m C#maj E B
The town and all the passion strickened down.
[CHORUS]
E B F# C#m
And Emmy's twenty years removed now, from that morning in July,
E B
When her father held her in his arms.
E B F# C#m
And dipped her freckled neck down' 'neath the river water as flies,
E C#
Were darkening the brightness
E C#
And all of the baptismal whiteness
E C#
But darlin' all those of our likeness
E
Were born so very ready to live.
B
And to die.
[VERSE]
B
I know my way through the neighborhoods
E B
From Mona's house to the interstate.
B G#m E
I know my way to the greatest things we got
B
The travelin' acts they leave their sounds
E B
For railroad tracks in other towns,
G# C#maj
But I want to hold to something longer
E B
Something meaner, something stronger
G# C#maj E B
At eleven thirty the town's alone, again.
[CHORUS]
E B
And Emmy used to say she loved me,
F# C#m
Used to be oh so proud of me,
E B
When she saw her father in my eyes.
E B F# C#m
When I dipped her golden head down 'neath the river water swimmin',
E C#
The pine shine all was dimmin'
E C#
The kitchen panes were pitch-dark within
E C#
And I thought we were only kidding till
E
Your father cried.
B
[PLAY VERSE 1x DURING BANJO SOLO]
[VERSE]
B E B
Mona, you're my only friend, we could take the interstate;
B G# E
Though you know the interstate deadends.
B
Will it lead us to the milk and honey,
E B
Is the Promised Land just a funny
G# C#maj E B
Way to say the strangeness never ceases?
G# C#maj E B
'Cause Emmy, you have baptized me to pieces.
- 1. Chord Gitar Frontier Ruckus - Mona And Emmy Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar G#)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar Frontier Ruckus - Mona And Emmy Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar G#)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan