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Orphan Child by Jeremy Ivey
Orphan Child
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:no capo
INTRO:
A F#m
A F#m
A F#m
A F#m
A F#m
A F#m
A F#m
A F#m
VERSE:
A F#m A F#m
Long away, for I go
A F#m A F#m
I had what I thought was the best
A F#m A F#m
I watched it slip fall and fade
D Bm
I watched perfection become transgressed
VERSE:
A F#m A F#m
I ripped up my roots, I changed my name
A F#m A F#m
I lived between polluted shores
A F#m A F#m
Strained my ears to hear the wind
D Bm
Tell me why was I born?
CHORUS:
E A
I'm an orphan honey
E A
I'm a no name nomad
D B B
Living in this great unknown
A F#m
This place is good as any
A F#m
And I’ve been to so many
D D
I am an orphan child
A Bm
Yes, I’m an orphan
E A F#m
But I’m better on my own
A F#m
A F#m
A F#m
VERSE:
A F#m A F#m
Why this race, this blood, this face
A F#m A F#m
These hands, these eyes and these miles?
A F#m A F#m
Between the graves and city plagues
D Bm
To seek the ease of empty smiles
A F#m A F#m
Friendships fought for then betrayed
A F#m A F#m
Buy a kiss in the solemn night
A F#m A F#m
And money that was gone before it was made
D Bm
And hunger that lost its appetite
CHORUS:
E A
I’m an orphan honey
E A
I am a transient soul
D B B
My family tree’s on fire
A F#m
And I don’t belong here
A F#m
Or any place near
D D
I am in orphan child
Bm
Well I'm an orphan
E A F#m
With a heart of barbed wire
INSTRUMENTAL:
A F#m
E A
E A
D B B
A F#m
A F#m
D D Bm E
VERSE:
A F#m A F#m
I used to walk these streets amazed
A F#m A F#m
Head ablaze in every town
A F#m A F#m
I used to study every new face
D Bm
Now I keep my gaze to the ground
A F#m A F#m
Why this language and why these dreams
A F#m A F#m
And why must I hate what I create?
A F#m A F#m
And why this mind full of twisted vines
D Bm
Lifelines and fates I can’t escape
CHORUS:
E A
I am an orphan honey
E A
I am a passing stranger
D B B
I don’t have that much to say
A F#m A F#m
There’s part of me you’ll never see
D
I am in orphan child
Bm
Yes, I'm na orphan
E A F#m
Home’s still far away
OUTRO:
A F#m
A F#m F#M
D D
Bm E A
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