Fair And Tender Ladies Chords
Fair And Tender Ladies by Caroline Herring is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords G, C, D, F, Am, Em and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
nd Fret
Intro: G C G D F-C-G
C G D G
You write about a place so dear, in all its good and evil
C G D G
A loving cup, an aching scar, you need no thread and needle
C G Am D
To sew your name into your clothes or hem a ragged line
G C G D C G
All muscular and luminous, oh, heroine of mine
C G
Ladies
D G
Oh, ladies
C G
My ladies
D C G
My fair and tender ladies
D F-C-G
My fair and tender ladies
C G D G
You raised yourself from mud and spit and opened up your eyes
C G D G
Stretching out your graceful limbs, from heart and soul on fire
C G Am D
From sidewalks and handlebars, summer sun and evening stars
G C G D C G
And unincorporated streets, oh, heroine I long to meet
C G
Ladies
D G
Oh, ladies
C G
My ladies
D C G
My fair and tender ladies
D F-C-G
My fair and tender ladies
Em C Em C Am C A D G C G D G C G D F-C-G
La-dies, la-dies, la-dies, la-a-dies
C G D G
You set aside your trays and flowers, like a ball and chain
C G D G
You understood a time and place upon which you proclaimed
C G Am D
Your skirt was not to hide behind, your womanhood, no alibi
G C G D C G
You would not live so man could die, oh, white-gloved heroine of mine
C G
Ladies
D G
Oh, ladies
C G
My ladies
D C G
My fair and tender ladies
D F-C-G
My fair and tender ladies
D C G
My fair and tender ladies
D F-C-G
My fair and tender ladies
OUTRO: G C G D G D G