She Awoke With A Jerk chords by The Handsome Family

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Gm

Difficulty: Novice

She Awoke with a Jerk
From the album Odessa

Intro:
G5 F5 Eb5 C5

Verse 1:
G5     F5
She awoke with a jerk
Eb5      C5
What had they done?
G5     F5
She awoke with the shock
Eb5      C5
What had they begun?
G5    F5
She awoke to the sound
     Eb5     C5
of their blue-white laughter
G5        F5
Hot in her hands
    Eb5     C5
and an idea for a chapter

Chorus:
Bb5   A5     G5
All she wanted was fame
  Bb5     A5   G5
or playing the marital game
Bb5    A5     G5
Maybe she just wanted love
   Bb5      A5     G5
when death came and gave her a shove

Interlude:
G5 F5 Eb5 C5

Verse 2:
G5     F5
She awoke under the house
  Eb5      C5
two nights after fall
G5         F5
Another screw loose
    Eb5       C5
in the space they call crawl
G5     F5
She awoke and she thought,
Eb5      C5
where is the sky?
G5         F5
It's funny you know
 Eb5   C5
how time flies

Chorus:
Bb5    A5      G5
And she thought it was mud
Bb5   A5      G5
Always gave him her blood
Bb5   A5    G5
All she wanted to do
  Bb5   A5    G5
was gaze up into the blue

Interlude:
G5 F5 Eb5 C5

Verse 3:
G5     F5
She awoke with a jerk
Eb5      C5
What had she done?
G5     F5
She awoke with the shock
Eb5      C5
What had she begun?
G5    F5
She awoke to the sound
  Eb5    C5
of people who asked her
G5        F5
What do you want?
   Eb5     C5
What is it you're after?

Chorus:
Bb5   A5    G5
All she wanted to do
   Bb5      A5       G5
was tell him, "You bastard, I'm through--
Bb5     A5     G5
can't do no more black shoe,
     Bb5      A5    G5
with my nerves burning electric blue"

Outro:
G5 F5 Eb5 C5 (x4)