Chords for "Morphine Song"

Date: 3 October, 2007
From: Leif Thiborg


Morphine song

There are two rounds in this song
G          F     C       C   riff: b,a,g,e,g

and
G     (A5) Bb    F       C    


no  chord                  /d /f# G
Listen to my heartbeat 
        F             C                              riff: b,a,g,e,g
(Yeah, all fall down, someone help me offa the ground)
Listen to my heartbeat 
(Yeah, all fall down, someone help me offa the ground)

G               F            C             riff: b,a,g,e,g
Nelson and Star,    he's got ten grandkids,
She's the third Mrs.
He grooves around intensive care,
strutting his stuff
He's got a perfect mullet, hanging down his back
And Star walks in and gives a little wiggle,
Makes old Nelson grin, tucks me in,
touches my feet: Hey,Buddy! you know, you got a slow heartbeat
              
              G         (A5) Bb    F     C    ://:
Listen to my heartbeat 
Yeah
Listen to my heartbeat
And a marching band plays along
Plays a Morphine song, The charity ward
Yeah 
A marching band plays its song
 
G           F          C                              riff: b,a,g,e,g
(Yeah, all fall down, someone help me offa the ground)
(Yeah, all fall down, someone help me offa the ground)

And opposite me, Brenda the alkie
Coughs so deep
It's the drug and the drink, could happen to anyone,
sure makes me think
And the bed beside it is full of cables and leads
                
Nobody visits, nobody grieves

Listen to my heartbeat 
Yeah
Listen to my heartbeat

G           F          C                     riff: b,a,g,e,g
Nelson and Star, he's got ten grandkids,
She's the third Mrs.
Star takes some blood out of my arm,
Rolls me over, just like that
Listen to my heartbeat, slow but clean,
Va, Brenda the alkie looks so mean
They wheel her up, she starts to cry:
"If I don't get better, I'm gonna die
I go Cold turkey till I'm clean,
I'll go to jail, but you get the morphine

Listen to my heartbeat 
Yeah
Listen to my heartbeat
And a marching band song
Plays in the morgue at the Charity ward
Yeah 

              G         (A5) Bb    F     C    ://:
A marching band plays its song 
(Yeah, all fall down, someone help me offa the ground)
Listen to my heartbeat 
(Yeah, all fall down, someone help me offa the ground)