Waterboys – Beverly Penn chords

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
                           C      GGirl sleeping on a mansion roof
                    C   GUnder a wintery sky
                               D/F#    CWrapped she is in her furs and sable
                       GStarlight in her eye

[Verse 2]
                                 C      GAnd what is the name of this creature?
                            C   GWhere did she live and when?
                    D/F#Who was she and why was it
           C                      G      C   G   C   GThat Peter Lake - loved - Beverly Penn?

[Verse 3]
                            C      GFour o'clock in a marble morning
                          C   GWater pouring on her skin
                          D/F#  CIn fever, her life bursts open
                           GAnd a hurricane blows in

[Verse 4]
                                  C          GWhen high from the dreams of this creature
                           C   GA thief on a horse descends
                         D/F#It was dawn and it was December
          C                      GAnd Peter Lake - loved - Beverly Penn

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[Verse 5]
                          C    GIt was all of a windy day
                              C    GAnd the sky was full of crows
                      D/F#      CWhen her lovely soul ascended
                                      GShe just closed her heart and rose

[Verse 6]
                                 C       GAnd whither the soul of this creature?
                        C   GTell me the story again
                             D/F#Of scarves and songs and the skin of space
              C                      GAnd how Peter Lake - loved - Beverly Penn

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[Verse 7]
                              C    GI would dive in a freezing river
                      C     GSet fire to a hundred men
                     D/F#If I could, for just one time
         C                                  G      C   G   C   GLove somebody the way that he loved Beverly Penn

[Outro]
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