My Morphine

Gillian Welch

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I've looked around
Been all up and downI never wasted time
          C    C/BAm
On two or three 
        G                 D
There's only one girl for me
D/F#  G
There was a time
She used to treat me fineBut lately she's been acting
      C    C/BAm
Awful stone 
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Makes her man
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Weep and moan

CHORUS:
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I-dee-oh-lay-e-tee
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Idle-liddle-lodle-lay-e-oh-oh-oh-tee

         D
I-dee-oh-lay-e-tee
Lay-e-tee
            D/F#  G
Diddle-odle-lay-e-tee
   D
My Morphine will be
    D/F#     G
The death of me

You should have seen
Me and my Morphine
When we used to
Go dancing in the war
Spin me right off the floor

CHORUS yodel....

My Morphine will be
The death of me
Morphine Morphine
What made you so mean
You never used to
Do me like you do
Where's that sweet gal I knew

CHORUS yodel...

My Morphine will be
The death of me
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My Morphine