Chords for Esther Ofarim - Bird On a Wire - אסתר עופרים

[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ Like a bird _ on a [E] wire _ [A] Like a drunk in a midnight [D] choir
_ [A] I have tried in [E] my way to be free [A] _
Like _ _ a worm [E] on a hook
_ [A] Like a night from some old [D]-fashioned book I [A] have saved all [E] my rhythms for [A] thee _
_ _ _ [D] If _ I, if I have, _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] I hope that you can just let it go [A] _ _ _
by
_ _ _ [D] If I, if I have, _ _ [A] _ _ _
I _ _ [Bm] _ hope you know it was never [E] to be _ _
_ _ Like [A] a baby _
_ [E] _ stillborn [A] Like a _ beast with [D] his horn
[A] I have torn [E] everyone who reached [A] out for _ me But _ I swear by this [E] song
And [A] by all that [E] I have [D] done wrong _ _ [A] I will make [E] it all up [A] to thee
_ _ I [D] _ saw a beggar leaning on _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] his bed to me You must not ask for [A] so _ much
_ _ And [D] a pretty woman _ _ _ [A] ducking down, _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] she cried to me
Hey, why not ask [E] for _ _ more?
_ _ _ [A] Like a _ bird on [E] a wire _ _ [A] _
Like a drunk in [D] a midnight choir
[A] I have tried in [E] my way to [C#m] be free
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