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Kingfisher by Joanna Newsom
Kingfisher
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:no capo
G F Am
Whose is the hand that I will hold
G F C
Whose is the face I will see
G D Am
Whose is the name that I will call
G F A
When I Am called to meet thee
Am C G F Am
G F Am
In this life who did you love
G F C
Beneath the drifting ashes
G D Am
Beneath the sheeting banks of air
G F A
That barrenly pour our rations
Am C G F Am
G F Am
When I could speak it was too late
G F C
Didn't you hear me calling
G D Am
Didn't you see my heart leap like a
G F A
Pup in the constant barley
Am C G F Am
G F Am
In this life where did you crouch
G F C
When the sky had set to boiling
G D Am
Burning within seen from without
G F A
In your gut was a serpent coiling
Am C
And for the sake of that pit of snakes
G D
For whom did you allay your shyness
Am C
And spend on your mercy and madness and grace
G F Am
In a day beneath the bending cypress
F#m A D C G F
It was not on principle, show, pro-heart, that you have got gall
F#m A D C G F
A miracle: I can bear A lot but not that pall
Am C G D
I can bear a lot but not that pall, kingfisher sound the alarm
Dm C
Say, "Sweet little darling, now come to my arms"
G F G Am
Tell me all about the love you left on the farm"
Am C G D
He was a kind and hurried man, with a heavy lip and a steady hand
Dm7 C G F Am
But he loved me just like a little child, a little child loves a little lamb
G F Am
Thrown to the ground by something down there
G F C
Bitten by the bad air while the clouds tick
G D Am
Trying to read all the signs
G F A
Preparing for when the bombs hit
Am C G F Am
G D Dsus2 Am
Hung from the under-belly of
G D Dsus2 C
The earth while the stars skid away below
G D Em D
Gormless and brakeless, gravel-loose falling
Dm A C Em
silent as gavels in the snow
Am C G F Am
La la la, la la la la, la la la la la la la, la, la
F#m A
I lay back and spit in my chaw
D C G F
wrapped in the long arm of the law
F#m A
Who has seen it all
D C G F
I can bear a lot but not that pall
Am C G D
I can bear a lot but not that pall, Kingfisher, cast your fly
Dm C
Oh, lord it happens without even trying
G F G Am
When I sling a low look from my shuttering eye
G F Am
Blows rain upon the one you loved
G F C
And though you were only sparring
G D Am
There's blood in the eye unlace the glove
G F A
Say honey, I am not sorry
Am C G F Am
G F Am
Stand here and name the one you loved
G F C
Beneath the drifting ashes
G D Am
And in naming rise above
G F A
Time as it, flashing, passes
Am C G D
Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh
Am C G D
Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh
Am C G D
We came by the boatload and were immobilized
Am C G D
Worshipping volcanoes, charting the loping skies
Am C G D
The tides of the earth left us bound and calcified, and made us
Am C G D
Obstinate as obsidian, unmoving save our eyes
Am C G D
Just mooning and blinking, from faces marked with coal
Am C G D
Ash cooling and shrinking, cracks loud as thunder rolling, I swear
Am C G D
I know you, you know me, where have we met before, tell me true
Am C G D
To whose authority do you consign your soul?
Am C G D
I had a dream you came to me, said, "You shall not do me harm anymore"
Am C G
And with your knife you evicted my life from its little lighthouse on the
F Am
seashore
Am C G D
And I saw that my blood had no bound, spreading in a circle like an atom bomb
Dm C G
Soaking and felling everything in its path, and welling in my heart like a
F Am
bird-bath
Am C G D
It is too short the day we are born we commence with our dying
Dm C G F A
Trying to serve with the heart of a child, Kingfisher, lie with the lion
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