Sugar Tongue Chords

Sugar Tongue -- Indigo Girls        Tabbed by Travis: mr_flycstr@yahoo.com
Chords: (T = 10th fret)
Gm=355333 Am=577555 Dm=x57765 C=x35553 F=x8TTT8 
C*=8TT988 Bb=688766 F*=133211

Intro: Gm, Am, Dm, Dm x2 (play open 5th string between each Dm)

                Gm       Am    Dm     Dm 
All the fur and fin will lose again
                 Gm       Am          Dm     Dm
Cause our better is their worst reckonin'
        Gm             C            Dm (hold)
And our fine-feathered friends will sing until they bleed
                Gm           Am          Dm     Dm
And how will we replace that symphony?

                      F                  C*
I've got the blackest boots, the whitest skin
     Bb                 C*
Satisfy my sugar tongue again
             F                  C*
Sing me lullabies of shoe-shine days
        Bb                  C*
Guilded verses for your ethylene
                   F        Am       Bb-Am-Gm-C-Dm
And sing ‘em to me free and clean

All the kids come home with foreign limbs  Gm, Am, Dm, Dm
From hunting trips abroad they lose again  Gm, Am, Dm, Dm
          Gm                C        F* (hold)          Bb  Am-Bb
And we'll teach them how to talk and whistle while they walk
And do the dirty work of battle hymns  Gm, Am, Dm Dm

I've got the blackest boots, the whitest skin   F, C*
Satisfy my sugar tongue again                   Bb, C*
Sing me lullabies of shoe-shine days            F, C*
Guilded verses for your ethylene                Bb, C*
And sing it to me free and clean                F, Am (to Gm)

Instrumental over intro chords

Drinking tea with milk and ganjaweed                  Gm, Am, Dm, Dm
Pontificate on genocide or greed                      Gm, Am, Dm, Dm
With a spoonful of descent for the orchestra of need  Gm, C, Dm (hold)
Is just enough to please this colony                  Gm, Am, Dm, Dm

I've got the blackest boots, the whitest skin  F, C*
Satisfy my sugar tongue again                  Bb, C*
Bring me lullabies and morphine-dreams         F, C*
Belladonna with her atropine                   Bb, C*
And sing it to me free and clean               F, Am, Bb-Am-Gm-C-Dm