Pelicans We Chords by Cosmo Sheldrake

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King and queens of [F] the pelicans we know other birds so grandly see.
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None but we have feet like fins, [A] with lovely _ leathery coats and [D] jeans.
[Am] Raw skin, plush skin, pelican cheeks, we think no bird so happy is.
Raw skin, plush skin, pelican cheeks, we think [Dbm] so then and we thought so [Am] still. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ He [Am] lived from the Nile, the Nile we love by night.
We [Dm] sleep from the cliffs above by day.
Fish in the deep we stand, along [F] rare islands [Ab] of yellow sand.
[Am] And when the sun sinks slowly [E] down, the great rock walls grow dark and brown.
[A] Purple river [Am] rolls fast and loose, the ivory ibis star-like streams.
Wing to wing, _ [B]
feet on to _ ground, _ [Bm] _
[E] _ stamping [F] our feet [D] with a [Am] funky _ sound. _ _
_ Oh, there are _ _ _
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_ pelicans _ on the _
[Am] _ _ _ snow. _ _ _
King and queens of the pelicans [Em] we [Am] know other birds so [E] grandly see.
None [Am] but we have feet like [E] fins, with lovely _ leathery coats and jeans.
[Am] Raw skin, plush skin, [F] pelican cheeks, [Am] we think no bird so happy is.
Raw skin, [D] plush skin, pelican [E] cheeks, [Am] we think so then and we thought so still. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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