Red House Painters - Mistress

      This song is usually played with obscure tuning and it sounds a bit ugly without a full band.
I've figured out this version to be played with regular chords in standard tuning.


(Capo 1)


Intro: A D A D A D A D

A                                  D
The light color in the room
A                                  D
  The sunshine seeping in
A                                  D
Doesn't mix with the black of
A                                  D
Death's angel looming in
A                                  D
   I've had enough of the
          A                        D
Brutal beatings and name-callings
A                                  D
  To lose me to this bed
          A                        D
Bruised internally, eternally
E                     F#m            D
  Your praise little gifts you spent your money
       A                             D
And stuffed me with
E                 F#m  D                   A D
  Didn't amount to aaaaaanything
     E                  F#m      D         A D
The attention I need is much more serious
   E                F#m  D                 A D
A kind of weight you couldn't lift
         E           F#m    D              A D
Even if your cheap career depended on it
       E               F#m D               A D
I need someone much more mysterious
   E              F#m
To be my- to be my miss-
        D                                  A D
To be my mistress




And so on.