Minneapolis by Lucinda Williams from the album World Without Tears

Intro G/G/G/G/G/G/G/G

Ive been waiting for you to come back
C G since you left Minneapolis

Snow covers the streetlamps and the
windowsills
The buildings and the brittle crooked trees
Dead leaves of December, thin skinned and
splintered

Never gotten used to this bitter winter
Ive been wasted angry and sad since you
left Minneapolis
I wish my thoughts were pure like the
driven snow

Like the heavens and the springs virgin


But they strangled me with their sin, fill
me up with poison
Black clouds have covered up the sun again
I can always trace it back to that night in
Minneapolis
Here on the seventh floor in a room I cant
call mine
Deadbolt on the door, do not disturb sign

Shaking and trembling
On the clean white linen
Slivers of starlight danced across the
ceiling
A dozen yellow roses all thats left in
Minneapolis

I wish Id never seen your face or heard

your voice
Youre a bad pain in my gut, I wanna spit
you out
Open up this wound again, let my blood flow
red and thin

Into the glistening, into the whiteness

Into the melting snow of Minneapolis

(Thanks to Eddie Smith for tabs)

This is the way Lucinda and her band play it, at least on the youtube video I watched. They are using capos on the first
fret and therefore in the key of G#, however, I have written it here in G natural for simplicity’s sake. The tremolo is
ruling this song.

The Intro:
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Over time
that’s what they all tell me
that’s what they say to me
Over time

Your blue eyes, your black eyela[D/F#]shes
The way you looked at life
In your funny way
I guess out of the blue
You won’t cross my mind
And I’ll get over you
Over time

(Then it hits the intro once more for a guitar solo)

(and what follows is played the same as the previous verse)

Your pale skin, your sexy crooked teeth
The trouble you’d get in
In your clumsy way
I guess one afternoon
You won’t cross my mind
And I’ll get over you
Over time

I guess out of the blue
You won’t cross my mind
And I’ll get over you
Over time

(they repeat the last chorus)

(Thanks to Jesse Ainslie for tabs)