Indigo Girls

Sugar Tongue(Chords)

Indigo Girls

Key: Gm

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	        Intro: Gm, Am, Dm, Dm x2 (play open 5th string between each Dm) 

                         Gm      Am  Dm     Dm  
All the fur and fin will lose again 
                 	    Gm       Am         Dm     Dm 
Cause our better is their worst reckonin' 
              Gm             	  C                Dm (hold) 
And our fine-feathered friends will sing until they bleed 
                          Gm              Am        Dm     Dm 
And how will we replace that symphony? 

                                F                           C* 
I've got the blackest boots, the whitest skin 
       Bb                               C* 
Satisfy my sugar tongue again 
                    F                            C* 
Sing me lullabies of shoe-shine days 
             Bb                          C* 
Guilded verses for your ethylene 
                  	         F            Am       Bb-Am-Gm-C-Dm 
And sing â??em to me free and clean 
		 
                             Gm               Am    Dm     Dm 
All the kids come home with foreign limbs   
                               Gm              Am     Dm     Dm 
From hunting trips abroad they lose again   
               Gm                        C            F* (hold)               Bb  Am-Bb 
And we'll teach them how to talk and whistle while they walk 
                           Gm       Am     Dm     Dm 
And do the dirty work of battle hymns  

                                 F                           C* 
I've got the blackest boots, the whitest skin 
     Bb                               C* 
Satisfy my sugar tongue again 
                    F                            C* 
Sing me lullabies of shoe-shine days 
             Bb                          C* 
Guilded verses for your ethylene 
                  	     F            Am       Bb-Am-Gm-C-Dm 
And sing â??em to me free and clean 


Instrumental over intro chords 

                            Gm        Am    Dm     Dm 
Drinking tea with milk and ganjaweed                   
                      Gm   Am      Dm     Dm 
Pontificate on genocide or greed                       
           Gm             	C                Dm (hold) 
With a spoonful of descent for the orchestra of need  
                           Gm            Am  Dm     Dm 
Is just enough to please this colony                   

                                 F                           C* 
I've got the blackest boots, the whitest skin 
     Bb                               C* 
Satisfy my sugar tongue again 
                    F                            C* 
Sing me lullabies of shoe-shine days 
             Bb                          C* 
Guilded verses for your ethylene 
                  	     F            Am       Bb-Am-Gm-C-Dm 
And sing â??em to me free and clean
	        

Written by Amy Ray

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