VERDI CRIES (10,000 Maniacs) Words & music: Natalie Merchant
This song should be fingerpicked, not strummed.
INTRO: G A7 D7 D Dsus D
The man in 119 takes his tea all alone
Mornings we all rise to wireless Verdi cries
I'm hearing opera through the door
The souls of men and women, impassioned all Their voices climb and fall, battle trumpets call I feel the bath and climb inside, singing
CHORUS: La la la, la la la
La la la, la la la
He will not touch their pastry but every day they bring him more Gold from the breakfast tray, I steal them all away And then go eat them on the shore
CHORUS, followed by:
Oh, la, la la la la la
I draw a jackal-headed woman in the sand
Sing of a lover's fate sealed by jealous hate
And wash my hand in the sea
With just three days more I'd have just about learned the entire score
To Aida
(as last verse) Holidays must end as you know All is memory, taken home with me The opera, the stolen tea, the sand drawings, the virgin sea, all Years ago
CHORUS
INSTRUMENTAL: repeat chorus chords, end on G
Verdi Cries - This should match the version on the cd.
CAPO 1
INTRO: D, A, Bm, A
The man in 119 takes his tea alone.
Mornings we all rise to wireless Verdi cries.
I'm hearing opera through the door.
(same as 1st verse) The souls of men and women, impassioned all. Their voices climb and fall; battle trumpets call. I fill the bath and climb inside,
singing la, la la la la la la
la la la la la la
G/B (the rest is same) He will not touch their pastry but every day they bring hiM more. Gold from the breakfast tray, I steal them all away and then go and eat them on the shore.
I draw a jackel-headed woman in the sand, sing of a loveRS fate sealed by jealous hate then wash my hand in the sea.
With jusT three days more I'd have just about learned the entire scire to Aida.
Holidays must end as you know. All is memory taken home with me: the opera, the stolen tea, the sand drawing, the verging sea, all years ago.
