Wallowa Lake Monster

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[Verse 1]
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As if you know the story of 
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Wallowa Lake
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Leviathan first hid in the deep 
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where her children sleep
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She kept them hidden from the plague
Em                       A       
But have you heard the story of 
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my mother’s fate?
Em              C      Am      
She left us in Detroit in the 
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rain with a pillowcase
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Fortune for the paperweight

[Verse 2]
    Em                A
We followed her to Joseph, near the 
Indian raid
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She wept among the weeds, hide 
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and seek, for the fallen chief
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Spathiphyllum on his grave
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And like the cedar waxwing, she
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 was drunk all day
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We put her in the sheet, little 
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wreath, candles on the crate
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As the monster showed its face

[Chorus 1]
D       C                        
As she waits for her children in 
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the shade
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Demogorgon or demigod the ghost 
parade
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No oblation will bring her back 
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to our place

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[Verse 3]
Em                      D        
She stayed within the deep end of
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 Wallowa Lake
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The undertow refrained with the 
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flame of a feathered snake
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Charybdis in its shallow grave
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She gave us one last feature, the
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 fullness of her face
Em                C            G
In the shade of 
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"Hin-mah-too-yah…" (Red Napoleon)
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As the demon took her place

[Chorus 2]
D     C                       F
As we wait for the waters to reside
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Her remarkable stoicism and her 
pride
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When the dragon submerged we 
            D  A
knew she had died

[Instrumental Outro]
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