The Mother chords by Brandi Carlile

• Capo on 1st

Intro:
C Dsus9 C G

verse 1:
 G
Welcome to the end of being alone inside your mind

    C                G
You're tethered to another and you're worried all the time

   D                C            Dsus9    C
You always knew the melody but you never heard it rhyme

    G
She is fair and she is quiet, Lord, she doesn't look like me

   C                  G
She made me love the morning, she's a holiday at sea

   D                   C           G
The New York streets are as busy as they always used to be

             D   G
But I am the mother of Evangeline


verse 2:
 G
The first things that she took from me were selfishness and sleep

   C                 G
She broke a thousand heirlooms I was never meant to keep

   D                   C               G
She filled my life with color, cancelled plans, and trashed my car

                 D   Dsus4    D
But none of that is ever who we are

 G
Outside of my windows are the mountains and the snow

  C                   G
I hold you while you're sleeping and I wish that I could go

 D                C               G
All my rowdy friends are out accomplishing their dreams

             D    G
But I am the mother of Evangeline


bridge:
        D                  C         G
They've still got their morning paper and their coffee and their time

     D                   C         G
And they still enjoy their evenings with the skeptics and the wine, oh

   Em                   C       Dsus9
But all the wonders I have seen, I will see a second time

                   D   Dsus4    D
From inside of the ages through your eyes


verse 3:
 G
You were not an accident where no one thought it through

   C                   G
The world that stood agaisnt us made us mean to fight for you

   D                    C           Dsus9    C
And when we chose your name we knew you'd fight the power too

    G
You're nothing short of magical and beautiful to me

   C                G
I'll never hit the bigtime without you

  D                    C     C/B    Am   G
So they can keep their treasure and their ties to the machine

              D   Em
Cause I am the mother of Evangeline

 C                              Dsus9    C
They can keep their treasure and their ties to the machine

 G              D   G
Cause I am the mother of Evangeline

 C   C/B   Am   D   G
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

 C   C/B   Am   D   G
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

 C   C/B   Am   D   G
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh