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"Marlene on the wall"

  words & music by Suzanne Vega



!!!set capo on 1st fret!!!!

(So all these chords below are one halfstep higher recorded!)

Tempo is 112



Chord-List: (if you wanna play w/o capo, increase the fret-nr by one)



chord   F  A# d# g# c  f

E       0  2  2  1  0  0

Esus4   0  2  2  2  0  0

F#msus4 2  2  2  2  2  2

Amaj9   X  0  2  1  0  0

Aadd2   X  2  2  2  2  0

Em7     0  2  0  0  0  0

Cmaj7   X  3  2  0  0  0

C6      X  3  2  2  1  0

Bm7sus4 X  2  4  2  5  2

Bm7     X  2  4  4  3  2

G/C     X  3  0  0  0  3

D       X  X  0  2  3  2

D/C     X  3  0  2  3  2   (you can also play simple D)



Intro: E | Esus4 | F#msus4 | Amaj9

(Last warning: these are the chords for guits w/ capo on 1st fred.

 If you play bass or w/o capo, the intro is F|Fsus4|Gm7sus4|Bbmaj9 etc.)



1.

[E]Even if I am in love with you all

[Esus4]this to say what's it to you? Ob-

[F#msus4]serve the blood the rose tatoo of the

[Aadd2]fingerprints on me from you.

[E]other evidence has shown that

[Esus4]you and I are still alone we

[F#msus4]skirt around the danger zone and don't

[Aadd2]talk about it later.



CHORUS

[Em7]Marlene watches from the walls

[Cmaj7]her mocking [C6]smile says it all

[Bm7sus4]as she records[Bm7] the rise and

[Cmaj7]fall of every soldier passing

[Em7]but the only soldier now is me

[Cmaj7]I'm fighting things[C6] I cannot

[Bm7sus4]see. I think its [Bm7]called my desti-

[G/C]ny but [D/C]I [G/C]am [Cmaj9]changing

[D] Marlene on the wall

[Cmaj7] | [D] | [Cmaj7]   (Well I)



2.

[E]Walk to your house in the afternoon by the

[Esus4]butcher shop with the saw-dust strewn

[F#msus4]"don't give away the goods too soon" is

[Aadd2]what you might have told me and I

[E]tried so hard to resist when you

[Esus4]held me in your handsome fist and re

[F#msus4]minded me of the night we kissed and of

[Aadd2]why I should be leaving



CHORUS



3. Instrumental



CHORUS (on last [Cmaj7] words are: "And")

repeat 1st verse

(additional lyrics are "And I" within last bar of 1st verse)

CODA

[E]tried so hard to resist

[Esus4]held me in your handsome fist and re-

[F#msus4]minded me of the night we kissed and of

[Aadd2]why I should be leaving.

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[Em7]Marlene watches from the wall

[Cmaj7]her mocking [C6]smile says it all

[Bm7sus4]as she records the rise and

[Cmaj7]fall of every 

[Em7]but the only  now is me

[Cmaj7]I'm fighting things [C6]I cannot

[Bm7sus4]see I think it's [Bm7]called my desti-

[G/C]ny but [D/C]I [G/C]am [Cmaj9]changing





OUTRO

[Cmaj7] | [D] | [Cmaj7] | [D] | [Cmaj7] | [E]



nice song but not that easy...



have fun!

Erik Pischel

pischel@informatik.hu-berlin.de