Wallowa Lake Monster

Em A F#m
C G Am F C G C

[Verse 1]
Em                   A               Em
As if you know the story of Wallowa Lake
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Leviathan first hid in the deep where her children sleep
     D          G
She kept them hidden from the plague
Em                       A                   Em
But have you heard the story of my mother’s fate?
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She left us in Detroit in the rain with a pillowcase
D       G                    C
Fortune for the paperweight

[Verse 2]
    Em                A
We followed her to Joseph, near the Indian raid
G   Em               C             G              Am
She wept among the weeds, hide and seek, for the fallen chief
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Spathiphyllum on his grave
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And like the cedar waxwing, she was drunk all day
                   C            G              Am
We put her in the sheet, little wreath, candles on the crate
D        G
As the monster showed its face

[Chorus 1]
D       C                             F
As she waits for her children in the shade
               Am
Demogorgon or demigod the ghost parade
A#                Am            C       D     A
No oblation will bring her back to our place

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[Verse 3]
Em                      D                  G
She stayed within the deep end of Wallowa Lake
      Em      C                    G         Am
The undertow refrained with the flame of a feathered snake
   G
Charybdis in its shallow grave
Em                     A                           G
She gave us one last feature, the fullness of her face
Em                C            G           Am
In the shade of "Hin-mah-too-yah…" (Red Napoleon)
        G
As the demon took her place

[Chorus 2]
D     C                       F
As we wait for the waters to reside
                Am
Her remarkable stoicism and her pride
A#               F        Am                D  A
When the dragon submerged we knew she had died

[Instrumental Outro]
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