micheline Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][C][G][Am][C][G][C][G]
[Am][C]

[Verse 1]
[G]Micheline used
to come to our house [C]and [G]knock on [C]our [Am]door.
[G]My dad would answer and say,
"What do you want girl?"
And she'd say,
[C]"Can I take a [G]bath with [C]Mark?"[Am][C]
[G]My dad would say,
"My son ain't here,"
[C]Send her home and shut the
[G]door and [C]we'd [Am]all laugh.[C]
[G]And Micheline would
walk down the street
Glowing and smiling like [C]she just got
[G]Paul [C]McCartney's autograph.
Her brain worked a little slower [G]than the
[C]others; she wore [D]thick- rimmed [C]glasses.[G]
[C]She took a different bus to school than oth
[G]er kids [C]and was in different kid [G]of classes.

[Verse 2]
When she got older a neighborhood
thug moved in with [C]her
And started [G]taking [C]her wel
[Am]fare payment[C]s.
[G]He took her down to the bank,
Helped her withdraw her saving[C]s that was
put away for her and he [Am]went off [C]with it.
[G]The cops caught up with him,
he did a little time and [C]cut too many years [Am]later.[C]
[G]He's doing life in a Florida penitentiary with his father[C],
both [G]of them for [Am]murder[C].
[G]Micheline,

[Verse 3]
[C]Micheline. [G]Micheline,
Micheline. [C]Micheline, [G]Mich[D]eline, Micheline.[C]
[G]She wanted love like anyone [C]else.[G]
[Em]Micheline, Micheline, [D]Mich[G] el[C]ine,
[G]She had dreams like anyone [C]else.[G]

[Verse 4]
My friend [G]Brett, my friend Brett, my friend Brett, my friend [C]Brett,
he liked to play the guitar.
[G]But he had an awkward
way of playing barre chords
With two fingers [C]spreading his in[G]dex
and middle fin[Am]gers really far [C]apart.
[G]One day in band practice he dropped like a deer
was shot an[C]d was flipping around [G]like [Am]a fish.
[G]He had an aneurysm triggered by a nerve in his
[C]hand from the strain [G]he was [Am]putting [C]on it.
I went to see [D]him [C]in [G]Ohio; he had a [C]horseshoe
shaped scar on his scalp and he talked [G]real slow.
[C]We played pool like we did in our tee[G]ns and his hea[C]d was
shaved [D]and he still [C]wore bell- [G]bottomed jeans.

[Verse 5]
In [G]'99 I was on tour in Sweden
[C]when I called [G]home[C][Am][C]
[G]To tell my mom that
I got a part in a movie
When she said [C]"Mark, there's
something [G]that you [Am]need to know."[C]
[G]"Brett died the other day,
you really should send [C]a letter to his mom [G]and dad."[C][Am]
[G]And I got on my train in Malmo
And looked out at the snow [C]feeling
somewhere [G]between [C]happy [Am]and [C]sad.
[G]My friend Brett, my friend [C]Brett. [G]My
friend Brett, my friend [C]Brett.
My [G]friend [D]Brett, my [C]friend
Brett, my friend [G]Brett.
[Em]He h[G]ad a wife an[C]d a son.[G]
My friend [D]Brett, my [G]friend
[C]Brett, my friend [G]Brett.
He just liked to play guitar
and he nev[C]er hurt anyone.

[Verse 6]
[G]My grandma, my grandma, my grandma,
my grand[C]ma, my grandma, my grandma.
[G]Before she passed away we'd go and visit her
at my aunt's [C]house when I [G]was small.[C][Am][C]
[G]I couldn't bear the shape she was in so at the
[C]top of the driveway I'd [G]sit in the [C]car.[Am][C]
[G]One day I was just fucking around when I put
it in reverse [C]and I was free- [G]falling.[C][Am][C]
I re[D]member the [C]car mov[G]ing [C]bac[Em]k
wards; my heart [C]was beating [D]and [C]I blacked out.
[G]Ano[C]ther car was coming down the street and I[G]
[C]totaled [D]them both [C]and I got knocked [G]out.
My grandma, [D]my grand[G]ma,

[Verse 7]
my grandma, my grand[C]ma,
my [G]grandma, [C]my grandma.[Am][C]
[G]First time I met her, she lived in L.A.; I [C]think
it was Hunting[G]ton Park.[C][Am][C]
[G]I made friends with a kid named Marceau and an
[C]other kid named Cyrus [Am]Hunt.
We'd go [G]downtown and get ice
cream and feed french fries to the pigeons
And [C]talk to the handicapped
[G]vets [C]from Vietnam.
It was the first [D]time I [C]saw a hummingbird,
a palm tree, or a lizard.
[G]Or saw an ocean[C],
[D]or [C]heard David Bowie's "Young Ame[G]ricans[C]"
And I saw the movie "Benji" in
[G]theaters.
My grandma, [D]my grandma. [G]My [C]gra[G]ndma,
[D]my grandma.[G][C]
[G]My grandma, [D]my grand[C]ma,
[G]my grandma.
I heard she had a pretty [C]hard [G]life.
But af[D]ter her [C]first
husband passed away
[G]She met a man from California and
[C]he treated her really [G]nice.
My grandma, my grandma. [D]My grand[G]

[Verse 8]
[C]ma,
[G]my grandma.
[D]My grand[G]ma, [C]my [G]grandma, my [D]grandma.
[C]My grandma [G]was diagnosed
[C]at [G]62.[Em]
Her kid[G]s stepped [D]up to [C]the plate for her[G]
and were there the whole [C]way [G]through.