Clotilda's On Fire Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[A][Am][E][G][A][E][Am][A][G]
[Am]
[G]She's coming

[Verse 1]
[Am]
for [E]you hear the [G]chains [Am]rattle
Turn you into a [Dm]slave [E]another
piece of [Am]chattel
Across [F]the seas [E]stormy [Am]water
Showed no [F]mercy [E]she was
Satan's [Am]daughter
Born [F]to steal with [E]bodies [Am]to sell
She had [F]her own [E]special
Place in [Am]hell

[Verse 2]
[F]Clotilda's [G]on Fir[Am]e
Off the [F]Alabama [G]coa[Am]st
[F]Clotilda's [G]on Fir[Am]e[C]
We're Still [F]living [E]with her
ghost
[A][E]

[Verse 3]
[A][E]
She took [Am]souls [A]on a
[G]horrible [A]trip[Am]
Her morning [Dm]song [E]was
the crack of a [Am]whip
[C]Ones [F]who survived died
a [E]long time [A]ago[Am]
Most of them [F]buried [E]out
at old Plat[A]eau[Am]
But the pain and the [F]memory
[E]never go [Am]away
Her spirits still [F]lives [E]by the
shores of the [Am]bay

[Verse 4]
[F]Clotilda's [G]on Fir[Am]e
Off the [F]Alabama [G]coa[Am]st
[F]Clotilda's [G]on Fir[Am]e[C]
We're still [F]living [E]with her
[Am]ghost

[Verse 5]
[G]She was a [F]dirty [Am]secret
For[G]got but [F]not forgiven
[Am]But [G]the sham[F]e was so great[Am]
[G]She could not[F] stay hid[E]den
She's on [F]fire[G]

[Interlude 1]
[Am][F][G]
[Am][F][G][Am][C][F]
[E][A]
[Am]Her flames no

[Verse 6]
[A]longer [E]light up the[Am] night
[A]Now dre[Am]ams surviv[Dm]e and[E]
hope burn[Am]s bright
And people still [F]come from
[E]miles [Am]around
To praise the [F]folks [E]of[A]
[Am]Africatown
Who rose from the [F]ashes of [E]sad history
[Am]To stand unchain[F]ed
[E]proud an[Am]d free

[Verse 7]
[F]Clotilda's [G]on [Am]Fire
Off the [F]Alabama [G]coa[Am]st
[F]Clotilda's [G]on Fir[Am]e[C]
We're still [F]living [E]wit[A]h[Am][F][G][Am]
[F][G][Am]
[F][G][Am][C][F]
[E]her ghost"

[Outro 1]
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