Oh My Lord Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Em]I thought I'd take a walk [D]today
It's a mistake I sometimes [Em]make
My kids lay asleep in bed
[D]My wife lay wide-awake
I [Em]I kissed her softly on[D] the brow
I tried not to make a sound
[Em]But with stony eyes she looked at me
[D]And gently squeezed my han[Em]d
Call it a premonition,
[D]call it a crazy vis[Em]ion
Call it [D]intuition, something learned
from [Em]mother
But when she looked up at me,
[D]I could clearly see
[Em]The sword of Damocles
[D]hanging directly above her
[Em]Oh l[D]ord, oh my lord[Em]
[D]Oh lord
[G]How have I offended thee?
[C]Wrap your tender arm[Cm]s around me
[G]Oh lord, [D]oh lord
[Em]Oh m[D]y lo[Em]rd

[Verse 2]
They called [Em]at me through the
[D]fence
They were not making any sense
[Em]They claimed that I had lost the plot
[D]Kept saying that I was not
[Em]The man I used to be
[D]They held their babes aloft
[Em]Threw marshmallows at the security
[D]And said that I'd grown sof[Em]t
Call it intuition,
[D]call it a creeping suspicion,
[Em]But their words of d[D]erision meant
they hardly knew [Em]me
For even I could see [D]in the
way they stared at me
[Em]The spear of desti[D]ny
sticking right [Em]through me
Oh [D]lord, oh my [Em]lord
Oh [D]lord
[G]How have I offended thee?
[C]Wrap your tender [Cm]arms round me
[G]Oh lord, [D]oh lord
[Em]Oh m[D]y[Em][D]
[Em]lord

[Interlude 1]
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[Verse 3]
Now I'm [Em]at the [D]hairdressers
People watch me as they move past
[Em]A guy wearing plastic antlers
[D]Presses his bum against the glass
[Em]Now I'm down on my hands and knees
[D]And it's so fucking hot!
[Em]Someone cries,
"What are you looking for?"
[D]I scream, "The plot, the plot!"
[Em]I grab my telephone,
[D]I call my wife at home
[Em]She screams, "Leave us alone!" I say[D],
"Hey, it's only me"
[Em]The hairdresser with his scissors,
[D]he holds up the mirror
[Em]I look back and shiver,
[D]I can't even believe what I can see[Em]

[Interlude 2]
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[Verse 4]
Be mindful [Em]of the prayers you send
[D]Pray hard but pray with care
[Em]For the tears that you are crying now
[D]Are just your answered prayers
[Em]The ladders of life that we scale merrily
[D]Move mysteriously around
[Em]So that when you think
you're climbing up, man
[D]In fact you're climbing down
[Em]Into the hollows of glamour,[D]
where with spike and hammer
[Em]With telescopic camera,
[D]they chose to turn the screw
[Em]Oh I hate them, ma!
[D]Oh I hate them, pa!
[Em]Oh I hate them all f[D]or what they
went and done [Em]to you
Oh [D]lord, oh my [Em]lord
[D]Oh lord
How [G]have I offended thee?
[C]Wrap your tender [Cm]arms 'round me
[G]Oh lord, [D]oh lord
Oh [Em]my lord

[Outro 1]
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