Magnolia Melancholia

	  		 

 
 

VERSE  
C                                             G 
Nice to meet you boy, I know your momma knows, 
                                                    Am 
I fell in love with her, seven thousand summers ago, 

I was a runner kid, a too much too heartily kid, 
 F                                 G 
Your momma helped me out, and now, here to pay the due back, though. 

C                                              G 
Nice to meet you boy, I knew your momma's song 
                                                Am 
I knew how she would move along to every rhythm 

I know she'll  do her best for you, she wants to get the rest of you, 
 F                             G 
Now here to take care of you, whatever you need to come on through, 


Instrumental 
C G Am F G 


VERSE 
C                                    G 
Sad, juiced up, loose cannon fodder, 
                               Am 
We used to be happily, savagery,  
                                      
fell rapidly into love telepathy,  
      F                           G 
I must admit, before I slipped, your mother knew the best of me. 

C                                 G 
Mad, clued up, we were not lovers, 
                                       Am 
Band of brothers, sister, easy company, 

Didn't tell me she was sick until she wrote to me, 
       F                                  G 
Then out the blue, the years we knew they all come flooding back to me, 



C                           
Magnolia melan-call-it-love, 
G                     Am                           
magnolia melancholia,  
                           F     
Magnolia melan-call-it-love,  
          G 
magnolia melancholia,
 


VERSE 
C                                                          G 
Like how she smiled and how I cried and how I finally felt, 

Like how I lied and how we died, inside the Chelsea Hotel, 
Am                                                          F 
Could tell that when she told me I had never had a broken heart, 
                            G 
Well I was mad, I said a couple of things I shouldn't of, 

C                                                         G 
We didn't talk for years, it's clear to me I was ostracised, 
                                                         Am 
Threw me out a heart, a head, a soul, a whole damn life, 

I'm sittin' on the other side of London penance for shit, 
F                          G 
Guess it's all just hurt too much for her to deal with it, 

C                                             G 
Nice to meet you boy, I know your momma knows, 
                                                  Am 
I fell in love with her, seven thousand summers ago, 

I was a runner kid, a too much too heartily kid, 
     F                                 G 
Your momma helped me out, and now, here to pay the due back, though, 

C                                          G 
Nice to meet you boy, I knew your momma's song 
                                                Am 
I knew how she would move along to every rhythm 

I know she'll do her best for you, she wants to get the rest of you, 
   F                           G 
Now here to take care of you, whatever you need to come on through, 

BRIDGE 
C                             G                      Am 
       This is just a story I tell, she's alive and well, 
                 F          
Somewhere in the city swell,  

C                               G   
       I guess I just miss my friend, 
                Am 
As for the broken heart, 
                      F   
it grates every time I start, 

C                            G 
       I guess I just miss my friend, 
                    Am 
that's with a broken heart, 
                     F    
it grates every time I start, 

C                            G 
       I guess I just miss my friend, 
                    Am 
that's with a broken heart, 
                     F    
it grates every time I start, 

C                            G 
       I guess I just miss my friend, 
                    Am 
that's with a broken heart, 
                     F    
it grates every time I start, 


Instrumental 
(C G Am F G) X2 
End on one strum of C