Song Of Alice Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am][E][Em][E][Am][E][Am]
[G][Am][E][Em][E][Am][G][E]
[Am]She was the,

[Verse 1]
[Am]
the patron saint of twenty [E]third [G]street[E][Am][E]
[Am]She was around f[E]or a lot of time,
[Am]she[E]
Wandering [Am]around the hotel [G]hallways
in the middle of [Am]the night
Carrying [G]a little [Am]yellow
[E]cardboard [Am]box[E]
[Am]And she inhabi[E]ted the place like[Am]
[G]a b[Am]utter[E]fly
[G][E][Am]

[Verse 2]
There was this kind of sadness
[Baug]about her an[E]d they[Am]
And she did have this light
And nobody ever knew her real name
[Bdim][F][E]

[Interlude 1]
[Am]
[Bdim][E][Am]

[Verse 3]
Those times, [Am]I see her coming on[Bdim] a[F][E]
[Incomprehensible]
Stepping through [Am]broken
bottles and [F]gum[Am]
Carrying her shoes, [Bdim]barefoot[E]
People said she was crazy
[Am]

[Verse 4]
[Bdim]
[E]About, about six [Am]months before the fire,
there was a
There was a big blackout,
[Bdim]famous summer [E]blackout[Am]
She walked around through the halls
giving everyone [Bdim]candles[E][Am]

[Interlude 2]
Scared everybody away in the end
[Am][Bdim][Esus4]
[Am][Bdim]
[Esus4][Am][Bsus4][Bdim]
[E][Am]

[Verse 5]
And when the fire happened, [B]you know
[Bdim][E]
Everybody assumed it [Am]was her[Esus4]
[Am][B][Bdim][E][Esus4][E][Am]
Terrible [Bdim]fires all that year and little
[E]ones[Esus4][E][Am][Bdim]
I don't know if it was fair [E]or not[Esus4]
[Am]But everybody blamed her for it

[Interlude 3]
[Bdim][E][Am]
[E][E][Am]

[Verse 6]
[E]And then one day she,
she just [E]vanished
And later they said her name
was Alice
The whole time I never knew her name