Intro: gently Fm



E|----4-4-4-|

B|---1-2-1--|

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D|--3-------|

A|-3--------|

E|----------|



Verse:



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With quill and silver knife

                    Bbm

She carved a poison pen

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Wrote to her lover's wife:

C                              Fm

"Your husband's seed has fed my flesh".



As if a leper's face

That tainted letter graced

The wife with choke-stone throat

Ran to the day with tear-blind eyes.



interlude:



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variations on Fm



Verse:



Impaled on nails of ice

And raked with emerald fire

The wife with soul of snow

With steady hands begins to write:



"I'm still, I need no life

To serve on boys and men

What's mine was yours is dead

I take my leave of mortal flesh"