Rabbit Fur Coat

Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins

 
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 CAmCAmCGC
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 CAmCAmCAmD
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i was of poor folk, but my mother had a rabbit fur coat

 GGGCCC
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and a girl of less character pushed her down the LA river

 CGCAmCAm
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"hand o ver that rabbit fur coat"...

((repeat the same thing for the rest of the verses))

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 CAmCAm
 I was of poor folk, 
 CAmDG
but my mother had a rabbit fur coat. 
 GGCC
And a girl of less character pushed her down the LA river.
 CGCAmCAm
"Hand over that rabbit fur coat"      

 CAmCAm
She put a knife to her throat 
 CAmDG
'Hand over that rabbit fur coat'  
 GGCC
When my ma refused, the girl kicked dirt on her blouse.
 CGCAmCAm
"Stay away from my mansion house."      

 CAmCAm
My mother really suffered for that. 
 CAmDG
Spent her life in a gold plated body cast.
 GGCC
 Now, you ask, did she get that girl back?
 CGCAmCAm
She payed a visit to that mansion house.     

 CAmCAm
She knew the girl was not there, 
 CAmDG
but her father was in cufflinks with slicked-back black hair
 GGCG
He invited her in. They never sang a note,
 CGCAmCAm
but she took off that rabbit fur coat.      

 CAmCAm
And who do you think came home? 
 CAmDG
 Miss So and So   
 GGCC
She took one look at my mama and what did she say?
 CGC
"Why are you stealing from my mansion house?"

 CAmCAm
"No, I'm in love with Mr. So and So  
 CAmDG
He invited me in. I'm a girl no more."
 GGCC
 Then she dragged my ma out by her throat.
 CGCAmCAm
"Hand over that rabbit fur coat."      

 CAmCAm
 Let's move ahead twenty years, shall we?  
 CAmDG
She was waitressing on welfare. We were living in the Valley.
 GGCC
A lady says to my ma "you treat your girl as your spouse.
 CGC
You can live in a mansion house."

 CAmCAm
 And so we did, 
 CAmDG
and I became a hundred-thousand-dollar kid.
G G C (strum once (pause)
When I was old enough to realize; wiped the dust from my mother's eyes...
 CGCAmCAm
It's all this for that rabbit fur coat.        

 CAmCAm
But I'm not bitter about it   
 CAmDG
I've packed up my things and let them have at it,
 GGCC
and the fortune faded, as fortunes often do,
 CGCAmCAm
and so did that mansion house.       

 CAmCAm
Where my ma is now, I don't know. 
 CAmDG
She was living in her car. I was living on the road,
 GGCC
and I hear she's putting that stuff up her nose,
 CGCAmCAm
and still wearing that rabbit fur coat.       

 CAmCAm
But mostly I'm a hypocrite  
 CAmDG
I sing songs about the defecit,   
 GG
but when I sell out and leave Omaha,
C C (strum, pause)
what will I get?
 CGCC
a mansion house and a rabbit fur coat.   

:D The End. this song is amazing.

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