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Date: 8/23/01; 11:19:53 AM
 From: "scott steinocher" <scottsteinocher@hotmail.com>
 Subject: Hangdogs-St. Claire of Cedar Rapids
 ‘St. Claire of Cedar Rapids’
 Probably Written by Matthew Grimm
 Performed by The Hangdogs
 ‘Beware of Dog’ album
 
 Intro  G D C C
 
 Verse:
 She[G]plays guitar in Czech town open[D]mic nights at the tavern
 Sings[C]country songs that no one’s heard since 40 years[G]ago
 She[G]smiles back at the awestruck boys who[D]stare up from the darkness
 She’ll[C]even smile some later when she[D]tells em thank you[G]no
 
 She[D]married him at 24 in[C]1987
 Separ[D]ated by[C]89
 Aw[G]hell she says, it wasn’t really[D]even him no more
 Still she[C]drives to Independence just to[D]visit him some[G]times
 
 Chorus:
 
 St.[Em]Claire of cedar rapids[D]only does what anybody[C]would
 Does any[G]body walk this[D]earth in angel’s[C]grace
 St.[Em]Claire of cedar rapids[D]I’d come unto you upon my[C]knees
 If[G]only you would[D]kiss my sins[G]away
 
 Verse:
 She[G]walks to work alone each[D]day down by the river
 She[C]tells herself a poem she once read or maybe[G]wrote
 To[G]say that all the birds and bugs stop[D]chirpin just to listen
 As[C]if it were a song sung by an[D]angel flyin’[G]low
 
 Works a[D]job for the insurance says she[C]won’t quit or divorce him
 Till the[D]state says he don’T[C]need it anymore
 [G]Some nights after just enough[D] Old Weller she might tell you
 She[C]wonders what the hell god put her[D]on this planet[G]for
 
 Repeat chorus