Biography:
American singer-songwriter Melissa Ferrick (born September 21, 1970) emerged in 1991 as part of a group of new female alternative singer/songwriters, much in the vein of Liz Phair. Ferrick began singing in coffeehouses after dropping out of college, eventually winding up in Boston. Her major breakthrough arrived one night when she replaced Morrissey's opening act less than an hour before showtime. Ferrick's performance impressed Morrissey and he invited her to open for him during the rest of the tour.
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Melissa Ferrick - Miss Liberty
Tabbed by: Steph
Email: [email protected]
Standard tuning - Capo 3
Simplified from the way Melissa Ferrick plays it... Try hammer ons and pull offs to
her style...
Em (022000) or Em7 (022030)
C (x32010)
B7 (x21202)
Am (x02210)
Em
I'm Miss Liberty
Give me your junkies
C Am
your irresponsible drummers
Em
I’ve swept my halls clean of clean
C Am
Your kitchen raiders your wingtip dayrunners
C B7
Go plant your flags and make your
Em Am C
Promise to my promised land
B7 Em
And we’ll make love to the new frontier
Am
In the hot beach sands
C B7 Em Am
You’ll hold me like a drowning man
C B7
And come at me too human and then
Drag me down again and leave me
Am
Broken like a spine
Em
Split open like a melon that’s been
Dropped from a high high place
Am
Broken like a spine
Em
Split open like a melon that’s been dropped
Em
I like this country she’s like a whore
Who loves her junkies
C Am
Who loves all her sad outlaws
Em
Lifts up her skirt to tease and flirt
C Am
With the wretched who have washed up at her shores
C B7
When we die I hope someone’s god
Em Am
Takes us in like immigrants
C B7 Em
And we’ll make love in the leftover light
Am
Of heaven’s tenements
C B7 Em Am
You’ll hold me like a drowning man
C B7
And come at me too human and then
Drag me down again and leave me
Am
Broken like a spine
Em
Split open like a melon that’s been
Dropped from a high high place
Am
Broken like a spine
C
Split open like a melon that’s been dropped
B7
Yes, Yeah
Em
Yeah, Yeah, Yes
Am C B7 Em
Tabbed by: Steph
Email: [email protected]
Standard tuning - Capo 3
Simplified from the way Melissa Ferrick plays it... Try hammer ons and pull offs to
her style...
Em (022000) or Em7 (022030)
C (x32010)
B7 (x21202)
Am (x02210)
Em
I'm Miss Liberty
Give me your junkies
C Am
your irresponsible drummers
Em
I’ve swept my halls clean of clean
C Am
Your kitchen raiders your wingtip dayrunners
C B7
Go plant your flags and make your
Em Am C
Promise to my promised land
B7 Em
And we’ll make love to the new frontier
Am
In the hot beach sands
C B7 Em Am
You’ll hold me like a drowning man
C B7
And come at me too human and then
Drag me down again and leave me
Am
Broken like a spine
Em
Split open like a melon that’s been
Dropped from a high high place
Am
Broken like a spine
Em
Split open like a melon that’s been dropped
Em
I like this country she’s like a whore
Who loves her junkies
C Am
Who loves all her sad outlaws
Em
Lifts up her skirt to tease and flirt
C Am
With the wretched who have washed up at her shores
C B7
When we die I hope someone’s god
Em Am
Takes us in like immigrants
C B7 Em
And we’ll make love in the leftover light
Am
Of heaven’s tenements
C B7 Em Am
You’ll hold me like a drowning man
C B7
And come at me too human and then
Drag me down again and leave me
Am
Broken like a spine
Em
Split open like a melon that’s been
Dropped from a high high place
Am
Broken like a spine
C
Split open like a melon that’s been dropped
B7
Yes, Yeah
Em
Yeah, Yeah, Yes
Am C B7 Em
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