Migrations Chords by Christine Fellows

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_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] Scarecrow in a pale dress, face [A] pressed on this greasy gas station [C] window, White [G] River, Ontario
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[Bb] Sidelong looks at boys lined up like [Dm] beer cans on a fence, passing [C] away this [G] blurry afternoon
And [F] under her breath she says, [Am] won't you pick me up?
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I'm light as a [F] feather _ _ _ _ _
Though [Am] I'm not [Em] afraid, [C] I am not brave enough [F] to offer
He _ _
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was beautiful [Bb] and mean, could [C] never put [F] things right
At seven stole a [C] bottle and [G] chose his _ antidote
[C] _ Faked his own death at fourteen, left his clothes [F] and a note by the [C] riverbed
[G] And floated _ _ away
_ [F] Won't [G] you [F] pick [G] me [Am] up?
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I'm light as a [F] feather
_ Though _ _ _ [G] I'm not [Am] [G] afraid, I [C] am not brave enough [F] to offer
_ Station _
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wagon [E] [C] full, family [F] of six
Rattling home [C] the long way [G] down the Trans-Canada _
[C] _ _ _ [E] Blackbird on a hydro wire plummets [F] as they pass
Who turns to [Em] watch as it lands [G] in the muddy field?
_ _ _ _ [F] Won't you pick [G] me [Am] up?
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I'm light as a [F] feather
Though _ _ [Am] _
I'm [G] not [Am] afraid, [G] I [C] am not brave enough [F] to offer _ _ _ _
Pick [G] me [Am] up, [G] _ _ [C] _
I'm light as a [F] feather
I _ _ _ am [G] not afraid
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