Rogers Stan - Lies guitar tab

Lies - Words & Music by Stan Rogers

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G D/F#

At last the kids are gone now for the day

Em C G D/F#

She reaches for the coffee as the school bus pulls away

G D/F#

Another day to tend the house and plan

Em C G D/F#

For Friday at the Legion when she's dancing with her man

G D/F#

Sure was a bitter winter, but Friday will be fine

Em C

And maybe last year's Easter dress will serve her one more time

G D/F#

She'd pass for twenty-nine but for her eyes

Am D/F# G

But Winter lines are telling wicked lies

Chorus:

Am G/B C D C G Am D/F#

All lies.... All those lines, they're telling wicked lies

Am G/B C D C

Lies.... All lies....

G

Too many lines there in that face

A C

Too many to erase or to disguise

D/F# G * D * Am G/B C D C

They must be telling lies

Is this the face that won for her the man

Whose amazed and clumsy fingers slipped that ring upon her hand

No need to search that wirror for the years

The menace in their message shouts across the blur of tears

So is this beauty's finish? Like Rodin's "Belle Heaulmiere"?

The pretty maiden trapped inside the ranch wife's toil and care

Well, after seven kids, that's no surprise

But why cannot the mirror tell her lies?

Chorus

She shakes off the bitter web she wove

Turns and puts the mirror gently face down by the stove

She gathers up her apron in her hand

Pours a cup of coffee, drips Carnation from the can

And thinks ahead to Friday, 'cause Friday will be fine

When she'll look up in that weathered face that loves hers line for line

To see the maiden shining in his eyes

And laugh at how the mirror tells her lies

Chorus x 2

Notes:

* means same chord, new measure

For the chords in the chorus (Am G/B C D C), I usually play about one

strum each - do whatever sounds good.

D/F#: 200232

G/B: x20030 (or plain G works well, too)

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Chris Butler aka cbutler@bnr.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-