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Miss Liberty

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Standard tuning - Capo 3
Simplified from the way Melissa Ferrick plays it... Try hammer ons and pull offs to 
Em (022000) or Em7 (022030)
  C(x32010)
 B7(x21202)
 Am(x02210)
EmI'm Miss Liberty
Cyour iAmrresponsible drummers
EmI’ve swept my halls clean of clean
Your Ckitchen raiders youAmr wingtip dayrunners
CGo plant B7your flags and make your
EmPromise tAmo my promiCsed land
And we’lB7l make lovEme to the new frontier
In Amthe hot beach sands
  CYoB7u’ll hold me likEme a drAmowning man
CAnd coB7me at me too human and then
AmBroken like a spine
Split open Emlike a melon that’s been
AmBroken like a spine
Split opeEmn like a melon that’s been dropped
EmI like this country she’s like a whore
Who Cloves Amall her sad outlaws
EmLifts up her skirt to tease and flirt
With tChe wAmretched who have washed up at her shores
CWhen we B7die I hope someone’s god
EmTakes us in like Amimmigrants
CAnd we’ll make B7love in the leftover Emlight
Of heaven’s Amtenements
  CYouB7’ll hold me likEme a drAmowning man
CAnd coB7me at me too human and then
AmBroken like a spine
Split open Emlike a melon that’s been
AmBroken like a spine
Split open like Ca melon that’s been dropped
Yes, B7Yeah
Yeah, EmYeah, Yes
Am C B7 Em

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Miss Liberty

by Melissa Ferrick

Lyrics & chords · Original key · Capo on fret 3 (as written in this song)

Chords in this song · guitar

Standard tuning - Capo 3

Simplified from the way Melissa Ferrick plays it... Try hammer ons and pull offs to

Em (022000) or Em7 (022030)

(x32010)

(x21202)

(x02210)

I'm Miss Liberty

C Am

your irresponsible drummers

I’ve swept my halls clean of clean

C Am

Your kitchen raiders your wingtip dayrunners

C B7

Go plant your flags and make your

Em Am C

Promise to my promised land

B7 Em

And we’ll make love to the new frontier

In the hot beach sands

C B7 Em Am

You’ll hold me like a drowning man

C B7

And come at me too human and then

Broken like a spine

Split open like a melon that’s been

Broken like a spine

Split open like a melon that’s been dropped

I like this country she’s like a whore

C Am

Who loves all her sad outlaws

Lifts up her skirt to tease and flirt

C Am

With the wretched who have washed up at her shores

C B7

When we die I hope someone’s god

Em Am

Takes us in like immigrants

C B7 Em

And we’ll make love in the leftover light

Of heaven’s tenements

C B7 Em Am

You’ll hold me like a drowning man

C B7

And come at me too human and then

Broken like a spine

Split open like a melon that’s been

Broken like a spine

Split open like a melon that’s been dropped

Yes, Yeah

Yeah, Yeah, Yes

Am C B7 Em

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