Fortune chords by Laura Marling

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)




Intro:
E E/A E/B D A

Verse 1:
  E             E/A             E/B        D       A
You took out that money that your momma had saved
   Ab                  Dbm      Dbm7     Bbdim
She told me she kept it for running away
 E/B               B
Oh my, fortunes can change

Verse 2:
    E       E/A       E/B      D    A
You've picked up some tricks that you learnt on your way
   Ab           Dbm  Dbm7   Dbm
For fear you'd be lonely if you never change
  E/B        B
Oh my, you lost your faith

Verse 3:
  E     E/A       E/B    D    A
We landed on rocks and that's partly to blame
  Ab          Dbm   Dbm7   Bbdim
We wandered the landscape in this unbearable pain
  E/B        B
Oh my, your fortune can change

E E/A E/B D A

Verse 4:
  E    E/A       E/B     D    A
At least we agree that we've wasted our time
    Ab             Dbm  Dbm7 Dbm Bbdim
We'll give up the hope that we'll meet down the line
 E/B          B
Better off measured in coffee than wine

E E/A E/B D A

Verse 5:
  E     E/A      E/B      D    A
I think on it fondly now the truth can be told
 Ab             Dbm   Dbm7   Bbdim
Some love is ancient and it lives on in your soul
  E/B      B
A fortune that never grows old

E E/A E/B D A

Verse 6:
   E       E/A       E/B    D    A
You spent all that money that your momma had saved
 Ab     Ab7     Dbm   Dbm7   Dbm
Told me she kept it for running away
 Ab     Ab7     Dbm   Dbm7   Dbm
Never quite found the right way to say
   Ab    Ab7     Dbm   Dbm7   Bbdim
I'm sorry, my darling, my mind it has been changed
  E/B        B
Release me from this unbearable pain

E E/A E/B D A

Verse 7:
  E     E/A     E/B    D    A
And so ends a story I had hoped to change
 Ab          Dbm   Dbm7   Bbdim
I had to release us from this unbearable pain
   E/B       B
And promise we won't come here again

Outro:
E E/A E/B D A
Ab Ab7 Dbm Dbm7 Dbm
E/B B E