Clara - Martyn Joseph Chords
Chords: Capo, F#m, Em, A, D, Bm7, G, Bm
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Genre: folk, acoustic, singer-songwriter
Capo 2
You can substitute the F#m for a Dmaj7/F#
[Intro]
F#m Em F#m Em A
[Verse]
D Bm7 G
She’s born in Palmerton Pennsylvania in 1902
D Bm7 G
G black girl in a white world, still love gets through
D Bm7 G
Hired at the age of fourteen, to nanny a baby boy child
D Bm7 G
Whose parents are disappointed and wish he hadn’t arrived
D Bm7 G
[Verse]
D Bm7 G
Through long nights she’ll hold him close and sing gently in his ear
D Bm7 G
And the day he’s taken from her is her greatest fear
D Bm7 G
Now ninety-one, she sits in the sun with fading photographs
D Bm7 G
Had no children of her own, just memories, and wonders if he’s still alive
F#m Em F#m Em A
[Verse]
D Bm7 G
Was too young to remember her, so he grows up he doesn’t know
D Bm7 G
And the scars of rejection that run deep have piereced a soul
D Bm7 G
So one day a young man walks into the mountains to take his life
D Bm7 G
Lies down with his face to the stars for one last time
F#m Em A
[Verse]
D Bm7 G
Maybe it’s the breeze on his face or the shadow moon across his eyes
D Bm7 G
But somehow the ghost of a melody is ushered in, and to his surprise
D Bm7 G
It raids the landscape and invades his heart
D Bm7 G
Shines light where there was none, he gets up and walks out alive
[Chorus]
A Bm
I hope we all have a Clara
G
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