Hymn to her (1986)    (video)

 

    C ~                 C                            F

1.        Let me inside you into your room,

                           Am                  F                         C

    I've heard it's lined with the things you don't show.

                      C                                  F

    Lay me beside you down on the floor,

                            Am                   F                 C

    I've been your lover from the womb to the tomb,

         F                  Am                            F                      C

    I dress as your daughter when the moon becomes round,

      F                Am               F                   C

    you be my mother when everything's gone.

 

                     C         - Em            F

And she will always           carry on,

                      C                           G

something is lost, something is found.

                  C         - Em                         F

They will keep on           speaking her name,

                        C                                 G

some things change, some stay the same.

 

                C                                                                F

2. Keep beckoning to me from behind that closed door,

                                 Am                      F                          C

    the maid and the mother and the crone that's grown old.

                       C                                    F

    I hear you voice coming out of that hole

                    Am            F                 C

    I listen to you and I want some more,

      F            Am             F                C

    I listen to you and I want some more.

 

+  CHORUS (2x)            +  F - C - G     - C - F - G   - F - C - G

 

+  repeat verse 1           +  CHORUS (3x)   + Bb - F   - Bb - F ....

 

 

(orig. = capo 1st)    (The Pretenders)