Track Info
- Song: The Housewifes Lament 1866
- Artist: Dawn Landes
Chords Info
- Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
- BPM: 185
- Key: E
- Capo: 4th fret
- Chords: Am, C, G, F, C/E, Am7, E/G#
- Suggested Strumming:
- D= Down Stroke, U = Upstroke, N.C= No Chord
C Am
G F
C Am
G F
C
One day I was walking
Am
I heard some complaining
G
I saw an old woman
F
a picture of gloom
C
She looked at the mat on
Am
her doorstep was raining
G
And this is her song
F C Am G F
as she wielded her broom
C
There's too many hours
Am
we spend getting ready
G
Days of our lives
spent ironing a shirt
C
There's nothing that pays
Am
back time wasted already
G
Nothing that lasts
F
but trouble and dirt
C Am C/E
Our liiiiife is a toil
G F C
Love is a trouble
Am C/E
Beauty will fade
G F C
Prices will double
Am C/E
Pleasures will wane
C F C Am
Riches will flee
C/E
Nothing is as
F
I wish it would be
C Am
G F
C Am
G F
C
In March it's so muddy
Am
it's slush in December
C
The mid-summer breezes
F
are loaded with dust
C
In fall the leaves litter
Am
and clutter September
G
The wallpaper rots and
F
the faucets all rust
C
There's worms on the cherries
Am
and slugs on the roses
C
Ants in the sugar
F
and mice in the pots
C
The spiders wreak havoc
Am
right under our noses
C
The roaches disgust me and
F C Am c
God damn those flies
F
God damn those flies
C Am C/E
Oh, liiiiife is a toil
G F C
Love is a trouble
Am C/E
Beauty will fade
G F C
Prices will double
Am C/E
Pleasures will wane
C F C Am
Riches will flee
C Am G
Nothing is as
F
I wish it would be
C Am G F
C Am G F x2
C
Last night in my dreams
Am
I was stranded forever
G
On a rock in the
F
midst of a sea
C
My one chance at life was
Am
a ceaseless endeavor
G
To sweep off the waves as
F C Am G F
they swept over me
C
But I wasn't dreaming
Am7
just rudely awakened
G
I see that it's helpless
F
my fate to avert
C
She laid out her broom
Am7
she folded her apron
G
Laid down and died
F
and was buried in dirt
C Am C/E
Liiiiife is a toil
G F C
Love is a trouble
Am7 E/G#
Beauty will fade
C F C
Prices will double
Am7 C/E
Pleasures will wane
C F C Am
Riches will flee
E/G# F
Nothing is as
F F C Am
I wish it would be
E/G# G
Nothing is as I wish it
F C Am
would be (wish it would be)
Am
Nothing is as, nothing
G
is as, nothing is as
F C
Nothing is as, nothing
is as, nothing is as
Am
Nothing is as, nothing
C
is as, nothing is as
Am C F
I wish it would be
C Am C
F F F
C Am F
Am C Am
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