Stevie - Lisa Mitchell

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Stevie - Lisa Mitchell

Most of this song is fingerpicked but there is strumming in the chorus.

[Intro]
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[Verse]
          
Stevie was a c

           
onnoisseur
          
Everybody want

        
ed to be her
           
She chose her 

             
friends as car

              
efully as she 

      
chose her  wor

ds
            
  She was so s

            
ure about it a

ll

[Verse]
           
Oh, Stevie was

            
 a hero once
           
Had all the th

             
ings I'd never

         
 touched
           
She wrote in s

             
terling silver

            
 with a ballpo

/  
int pen
           
  Cold blooded

        
 chameleon

[Chorus]
       
Oh, Ste-e-vie,
       
oh, Ste-e-vie
           
Why can't you 


see
           
You're a god t

  
o me
       
Oh, Ste-e-vie,
       
oh, Ste-e-vie
           
Why can't you 


see
           
You're a god t

  
o me

[Verse]
           
Stevie was an 

        
ice maiden
           
Not sure reall

          
y worth saving
          
Alcatraz has n

              
othing on her 

         
after all this

 
 time
             
  Still a dead

            
-end search be

        
hind those eye

s

[Verse]
           
Oh, Stevie whe

             
re are you goi

   
ng to
              
Oh, you're as 

           
tight lipped a

             
s a bottle, al

  
l screwed
           
If I had the c

             
hance to peer 

       
inside your mi

nd
             
  Give up your

            
 mystery, oh, 

  
I'd think twic

e

[Chorus]
       
Oh, Ste-e-vie,
       
oh, Ste-e-vie
           
Why can't you 


see
           
You're a god t

  
o me
       
Oh, Ste-e-vie,
       
oh, Ste-e-vie
           
Why can't you 


see
           
You're a god t

  
o me

[Instrumental]
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[Bridge]
             
  Tea-leaves i

              
n the cup, you

              
're a good fri

       
end of mine
             
  How the sobe

              
r are thirsty 

             
for the sweet 

wine
             
  Now that Ste

              
vie has locked

              
 her keys in h

       
er mind
             
  Got to open 

              
up, lay hersel

             
f on the line 


  (lay herself

 on the line)

             
 Tea-leaves in

              
 the cup, you'

              
re a good frie

           
nd of mine
             
  How the sobe

              
r are thirsty 

             
for the sweet 

    
wine
             
  Now that Ste

              
vie has locked

              
 her keys in h

       
er mind    (in

 her mind)
             
 Got to open u

              
p, lay herself

            
 on the line  


  (lay herself

 on the line)

             
 Tea-leaves in

              
 the cup, you'

              
re a good frie

           
nd of mine
             
  How the sobe

              
r are thirsty 

            
for the sweet 

wine 

[Chorus]
       
Oh, Ste-e-vie,
       
oh, Ste-e-vie
           
Why can't you 


see
           
You're a god t

  
o me
       
Oh, Ste-e-vie,
       
oh, Ste-e-vie
           
Why can't you 


see
           
Oh, give in to

 
 me

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