Tom: Bbm
A#m C# D#m C#
A#m C# D#m C# Cm
[Verse 1]
A#m
When I was young I had a friend
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Father said she was make-pretend
D#m C# Cm
Joanna was her name and life was innocence
A#m
Doctors tried to claw her out
C#
And pills tried to push her down
D#m C# Cm
She was part of me, she came back again
[Verse 2]
A#m
But not before long
C#
When all was said and done
D#m C# Cm
I knew that it was really her and me
A#m
The boys in the crowd
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They said they’d beat her out
D#m C# Cm
They’d exorcise this little witch in me
[Chorus]
A#m D#m C#
By the time that all
A#m
The teachers had arrived
G# Fm
It was too late
A#m
They bludgeoned her to death
D#m C#
Outside the gate
A#m G# Fm
She slipped away into the summer rain
F5 Fsus4 F
And never was the same
A#m D#m C#
Oh Joanna dear
A#m G# Fm
I thought this song would make you disappear
A#m
And banish you somehow
D#m A#m
Though as I sing it now
D#m F#dim
I hear your voice so loud
F5 Fsus4 F
So there can be no doubt
A#m D#m C#
That somehow you crept out
[Outro]
A#m G# Fm
A#m D#m C#
