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The Dead Girl

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Matthew Ryan (born November 7, 1971) is an American singer-songwriter hailing from Newark, Delaware whose music can be roughly characterized as alternative country. Ryan also collaborated with Neilson Hubbard to form the band Strays Don't Sleep. Ryan's voice has been described as a "hushed rasp, with words catching like vows destined to be broken - one of modern music's most potent whispers."

Perhaps the most underrated singer/songwriter of the past 12 years, Matthew Ryan arrived on the music scene in 1997 with Mayday.

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This is 'The Dead Girl', track 4 from Matthew Ryan's "May Day". It's in standard tuning
with capo on the 1st fret.

Intro: C, C/B, Em (x4) C, C/B

Verse 1:
D G
The dead girl mopes through a dead scene
D C
With a cross-stitched lip she’s picking at the seams
D
She’s got bravado she says she’s been
G G/F# Em
Featured in a few magazines
Am D
Ahh, Ahh

Interlude: C, C/B, Em (x2) C, C/B

Verse 2:
D G
Now outside the bar Hank is straddling a police car
D C
His fingers are purple and numb from circling a crowbar
D
Well twenty-four years have made it clear
G G/F# Em
That things ain't ever what they appear
Am D
No no

He says

Chorus:
G D
I won’t be going easily
Am C/B D C
No I won’t be going lightly
G D
And I won’t be going peacefully
Am C/B D C
No I won’t be going innocently

Interlude: C, C/B, Em (x4) C, C/B

Verse 3:
D G
A sweet drink spiked with a speed-ball
D C
A twenty-foot ladder and a ninety-foot wall
D G
Dark shadows are gathering and swaggering
G/F# Em
Down the hall
Am D
Ahh, Ahh

And I know

Chorus:
G D
I won’t be going easily
Am C/B D C
I won’t be going lightly
G D
And I won’t be going peacefully
Am C/B D C
No I won’t be going cleanly

Outro: C, C/B, Em