First Bird Chords by Bill Callahan

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[G#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ [F#m] _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
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And we're coming out of dreams, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ as we're coming [F#] back to dreams.
_ _ _ _ Yeah, we're [G#m] coming out of dreams, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ as we're coming back [F#] to dreams. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Dreams are thoughts in lotus _ and [G#m] _
chains.
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Chains are broken _ in [D#] the morning [C#] by the first birds, _ first [F#] song. _ _ _ _ _ _
[C#m] Singing sh-sh [E]-shadow, _ _ [C#m] sh-sh-shadow, _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] shadows of [F#] dawn. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#] _ Shadow of my boy [G#m] coming down [F#] the hall, _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#] and little [G#m] [C#] sister's hand [G#m] is deep [F#] in his paw. _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#] _ And her [G#m] feet [C#]
don't [G#m] ever touch [F#] the ground, _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#] cause everybody wants to carry her [F#] around. _ _ _
As we're coming [G#m] out of dreams, _ _ and we're coming [F#] back to dreams. _ _
Yeah, as we're coming [G#m] out of dreams, _ _ _ and we're coming [F#] back to dreams.
And _ _ _ [G#m] _ _ as the sun moves away, _ _ _ my boy's shadow _ [D#m] grows tall. _
Tall, _ _ tall. _ _ _
As we're [G#m] coming back to dreams, _ _ and we're coming [F#] out of dreams. _ _
Yeah, we're coming out of [G#m] dreams, _ _ as we're [C#] coming [F#] back to dreams. _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ So long, AC, waiting [G#m] for the first bird. _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ Come sing for me, or you [G#m] may be the last bird. _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ So long, AC, waiting for [G#m] the first bird. _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ Come sing for me, or you [F#] may be the last bird. _ _
As we're coming [G#m] out of dreams, _ _ _ and we're coming [F#] back to dreams.
_ _ As we're coming [C#] out [G#m] of dreams, [C#] and [G#m] we're coming back [F#] to dreams. _ _ _ _
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[G#m] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _
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