Little Henrietta Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am][G][Bm][C][Am]
[G][Bm][C]
[Am]

[Verse 1]
[G]Little Henrietta
From the dis[Bm]count hair salon
I in[C]vented you to come undo
[Am]The torture I've been thrust upon

[Verse 2]
[G]I'm a rolling pin
A half- de[Bm]flated soccer ball
[C]Left to brittle in the [Am]yard

[Verse 3]
In the spittle of the broken fall
[G]I'm the scared aggression
Of a [Bm]little dusk dog's bark
[C]Middling and [Am]piddling
In the safety of the dark

[Verse 4]
[G]Pontiac's been tainted
[Bm]Rochester [Em]is d[Bm]one
Chipped [C]toe[Am]nails [C]are painted
By [Am]the blacked- out friend that was
The [C]carsicksun

[Verse 5]
[C]But [Bm]litt[Am]le He[C]nrietta's fr[D]om
[Bm]the same township as [Em]me
So [Am]natively she [Bm]knows about
The [F]coughing [C]memory
Now [D]everything I see is full of

[Verse 6]
[G]Coffee
And [Bm]the [Em]lofty [D]little
[C]Hope of love
[D]Every day for you my
[G]Lovely little [Em]one
[C]Scratch your back and never slack
Or [D]back away from our first day of
[Bm]profuse dripping [Em]sun

[Interlude 1]
Darling
[A][D][Am][G]
[Bm][C]
[Am][D][G][Bm]
[C][Am]

[Verse 7]
Some [G]chipped- tooth baby doll I had
[Bm]Stung me like that day
That [C]I rode my bike into a wasp
[Am]Then Pizza Hut to wash away
[G]All that stinging cruelty

[Verse 8]
You'll un[Bm]derstand, I pray
The fu[C]ture is a creature that
Can [Am]only hope to lick the love
Its tongue tastes of [C]today

[Verse 9]
[C]But [Bm]litt[Am]le He[C]nrietta an[D]d
the [Bm]pil lows on her [Em]bed
Where [Am]really we [Bm]just kill
The [F]memory that won't [C]stay dead
With [D]a tendency for spilling silly

[Verse 10]
[G]Coffee
And the [Em]lofty [D]little
Hope [C]of love
[D]Every day for you my
[G]Lovely little [Em]one
[C]There are three blades in my back
[D]But two of them are yours to track
And [Bm]see where they've be[Em]gun

[Interlude 2]
Darling
[A][D][Em][Bm][F][Em]
[Bm][F]
[Em]Little

[Verse 11]
[Bm]Henrietta

[Verse 12]
[F]I h[Fm]ave h[C]ad three wives
[Em]You're my only ghost
The [F]organs I have lost control of
The roll of [Fm]film I can't [F]dispose of

[Verse 13]
[C]How your memory survives
[Em]Like communion host
[F]Or floating with the burnt toast
That was [Fm]coasting in my
grandpa's daily

[Verse 14]
[C]Coffee
And [G]the [Am]lofty little
[F]Hope of love
[Fm]Every day for you my
[C]Lovely little [Am]one

[Outro 1]
[Am][F][Fm][C]
[Am][F][Fm][C][Am]
[F][Fm]