Chord/Tab song: The Bridge

I've watched her[Am] from the river banks[G]

[Dm]I knew her when she [Em]danced with dreams

[A#] [Am]
White doves were there to dress her hair

[A#]And so was Madela[E]ine

[Am]At night the people's [G]faces danced

[Dm]Like pearls colliding [Em]on the breast

[A#]Of fat Marie whose t[Am]hunder laugh

[E]Was just a thread from [Am]crying


[F]Her sailors stained her [C]cobblestones

With [F]wine and [Em]ps and [F]death d[G]esire

A[F]nd sometimes blood for [C]Madelaine

[A#]Whose laughter was the [E]night

[A]Her girls would lift their [G]dresses high

and [D]breathe the [C]stars and [D]kiss the s[C]ky

[A]She'd smother them with [G]whispers then

[F]Embrace them with her[E] sighs


[Am]Before the bottle [G]dulled my eyes

[Dm]And made me so I [Em]couldn't stand

[A#]I'd overact and [Am]play the clown

[E]When Madelaine would [Am]cry


[F]And now I watch from [C]riverbanks

[F]I watch it [Em]weave it's [F]memorie[G]s

[F]White doves turned gray and [C]flew away

[E]And so did Madela[Am]ine