Misc Unsigned Bands – Hedwig And The Angry Inch - The Origin Of Love Acoustic chords

"The Origin of Love" by Hedwig and the Angry Inch (from the movie)
Tabbed by Aaron (it's acoustic)


D     D/B    Aadd9   G   G/D   Gadd6   G

          DWhen the earth was still flat
         D/BAnd the clouds made of fire
      Aadd9And mountains stretched up to the sky
GSometimes higher
GFolks roamed the earth like big rolling kegs
         DThey had two sets of arms, they had two sets of legs
          F#mThe had two faces peering out of one giant head
            EmSo they could watch all around them
AAs they talked while they read
           G           A        DAnd they never knew nothing of love
             G     A                D    GIt was before...   the origin of love

                D    GThe origin of love

                  BmAnd there were three sexes then, One that looked like two men Glued up back to back,
                            GCalled the children of the sun.
      DAnd similar in shape and girth were the children of the earth.
                  D                      GThey looked like two girls rolled up in one.
          AAnd the children of the moon
              BmWere like a fork shoved on a spoon.
            C#mThey were part sun, part earth
                       APart daughter, part son.

    D             G     D   GThe origin of love

         DNow the gods grew quite scared
        D/BOf our strength and defiance
          G                             GAnd Thor said, "I'm gonna kill them all with my hammer,
     G            GLike I killed the giants."
 GAnd Zeus said, "No,you better let me
       DUse my lightening, like scissors,
                D                                       DLike I cut the legs off the whales, dinosaurs and the lizards."
          F#mThen he grabbed up some bolts
        GAnd he let out a laugh,
                        EmSaid, "I'll split them right down the middle.
              AGonna cut 'em right up in half."
          G          A             DAnd then storm clouds gathered above
                      GInto great balls of fire


           BmAnd then fire shot down from the sky in bolts
                           GLike shining blades of a knife.
        BmAnd it ripped right through the flesh
                                                 GOf the children of the sun And the moon And the earth.
                 BmAnd some Indian god sewed the wound up into a hole
                                  GPulled it round to our belly to remind us of the price we pay.
      BmAnd Osiris and the gods of the Nile
                   GGathered up a big storm
               EmTo blow a hurricane,
               BmTo scatter us away,
                        GIn a flood of wind and rain,
                      EmAnd a sea of tidal waves,
                 BmTo wash us all away,
                  GAnd if we don't behave
                      EmThey'll cut us down again
               Ab                    GAnd we'll be hopping round on one foot
D                           GAnd looking through one eye.

D     Em     G

DLast time I saw you
        BmWe had just split in two.
           GYou were looking at me.
        AI was looking at you.
           DYou had a way so familiar,
        BmBut I could not recognize,
                 G'Cause you had blood on your face;
      AI had blood in my eyes.
       DBut I swear by your expression
          BmThat the pain down in your soul
          G                      AWas the same as the one down in mine. 
            DThat's the pain,
          Bm                            GCuts a straight line down through the heart;
            AWe call it love.
                DWe wrapped our arms around each other,
                 BmTrying to shove ourselves back together.
                 GWe were making love,
          AMaking love.
          D                         BmIt was a cold dark evening, such a long time ago,
             G              AWhen by the mighty hand of Jove,
            D                      BmIt was a sad story how we became lonely two-legged creatures,
      G                           AIt's the story of the origin of love.
                       D    G    D    G    D    GThat's the origin of love.