Rabbit Fur Coat

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             RABBIT FUR COAT - Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins
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Tabbed by: ilene

Tuning: Standard

Chords: C, Am, D G

Intro:

    C       Am      C      Am     
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B|----1-1-------------1-1---------
G|----0-0-----2-2-----0-0-----2-2-
D|------------2-2-------------2-2-
A|--3-------0-------3-------0-----
E|--------------------------------
   C       G       C  
E|----------------------------------
B|----1-1------------1-1---1--------
G|----0-0------------0-0---0--------
D|-------------------------2--------
A|--3--------0--2--3-------3--------
E|---------3------------------------

Verses


    C         Am       C        
E|-------------------------------
B|----1-1----------------1-1-----
G|----0-0-------2-2------0-0-----
D|--------------2-2--------------
A|--3---------0--------3-------0-
E|-------------------------------
  Am        C            Am          
E|----------------------------------
B|-----------------1--1-------------
G|2-2--------------0--0---2----2----
D|2-2---------------------2----2----
A|---------3------------0-----------
E|----------------------------------

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--3-3--| 
--2-2--| 
0------| 
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    i   was   of  poor  folk,      
but my mother had a rabbit fur coat


    G         G             G     
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B|----0-0----------0---0------0---
G|----0-0----------0---0------0---
D|--------------------------------
A|--2-----------------------------
E|------------3------------3------
        C         C                
E|---------------------------------
B|0------------------1---1-------1-
G|0------------------0---0-------0-
D|---------------------------------
A|--------------3-----------3------
E|---------------------------------
  C    
E|-------| 
B|1------| 
G|0------| 
D|-------| 
A|-------| 
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        and a girl of less character
 pushed her down the A  river


    C            G         C      
E|-------------------------------
B|-------1----1------------------
G|-------0----0------------------
D|-------------------------------
A|-----3-------------0---2---3---
E|-----------------3-------------
   Am          C      Am
E|-----------------------------------------| 
B|1-1------------1-1-----------------------| 
G|0-0---2-2------0-0-----2-2---------------| 
D|------2-2--------------2-2---------------| 
A|-----0--------3------0-------------------| 
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"hand  o ver that rabbit fur 
coat"...



[[repeat the same thing for the rest
 of the verses]]


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C     Am      C    Am
I was of poor folk,
       C            Am         D 
but my mother had a rabbit fur 
   G
coat.
      G            G              
And a girl of less character 
      C           C
pushed her down the A  river.
      C         G          C    
"Hand over that rabbit fur coat"
Am C Am


         C      Am    C      Am
She put a knife to her throat
Continues after the ad
      C         Am         D     G
'Hand over that rabbit fur coat'
       G     G                    
When my ma refused, the girl 
  C           C
kicked dirt on her blouse.
      C            G        C     
"Stay away from my mansion house."
Am C Am


   C             Am           C   
My mother really suffered for 
 Am
that.
          C         Am          D
Spent her life in a gold plated 
    G
body cast.
G        G            C         
Now, you ask, did she get that 
    C
girl back?
    C                     G       
She payed a visit to that mansion 
C    Am C Am
house.

             C    Am      C     Am
She knew the girl was not there,
        C             Am          
but her father was in cufflinks 
   D                  G
with slicked-back black hair
    G         G              C   
He invited her in. They never 
   G
sang a note,
        C             G          
but she took off that rabbit fur 
C    Am C Am
coat.

    C          Am         C    Am
And who do you think came home?
C    Am     D   G
Miss So and So
             G          G        
She took one look at my mama and 
C            C
what did she say?
             C               
"Why are you stealing from my 
 G       C
mansion house?"

            C             Am     
"No, I'm in love with Mr. So and 
C  Am
So
   C          Am        D       
He invited me in. I'm a girl no 
G
more."
G        G             C         
Then she dragged my ma out by her 
 C
throat.
      C         G          C     
"Hand over that rabbit fur coat."
Am C Am


C                Am            C
Let's move ahead twenty years, 
         Am
shall we?
        C              Am         
She was waitressing on welfare. We
      D             G
 were living in the Valley.
       G          G               
A lady says to my ma "you treat 
   C            C
your girl as your spouse.
        C         G       C
You can live in a mansion house."

C   Am   C    Am
And so we did,
    C         
and I became a 
 Am               D      G
hundred-thousand-dollar kid.
           G             G          
        C (strum once           
(pause)
When I was old enough to realize; 
wiped the dust from my mother's 
eyes...
         C             G          
It's all this for that rabbit fur 
C     Am C  Am
coat.

    C       Am      C        Am
But I'm not bitter about it
     C            Am             
I've packed up my things and let 
D         G
them have at it,
        G       G             C  
and the fortune faded, as 
        C
fortunes often do,
    C           G       C      Am
and so did that mansion house.
 C Am


       C       Am           C    Am
Where my ma is now, I don't know.
        C             Am         
She was living in her car. I was 
D             G
living on the road,
     G           G            C  
and I hear she's putting that 
          C
stuff up her nose,
          C            G          
and still wearing that rabbit fur 
C    Am  C Am
coat.

    C            Am  C     Am
But mostly I'm a hypocrite
       C               Am   D    G
I sing songs about the defecit,
           G                  G
but when I sell out and leave Omaha,
C           C (strum, pause)
what will I get?
          C           G          
a mansion house and a rabbit fur 
C      C
coat.