Chords for John Denver / The Wings That Fly Us Home [09/21/1993]
Tempo:
73.625 bpm
Chords used:
E
A
B
F#m
F#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
There's a very rare occasion that I sit down with someone and have a conversation
And it turns out that they write a song for me about that conversation
One of those people is here tonight.
He's a man who is a poet.
He's a cowboy
He is writing a book that if he ever finishes, I'm sure it will win a Pulitzer Prize
It's over a thousand pages now, and I don't think it's gonna be finished in my lifetime
[G] But Joe Henry has written he and I have written a lot of songs together
Quite often we'll sit and have a conversation about something going on in the world
or something that we perceive [A#] something that we feel and
This has happened on more than one occasion when Joe has been in my home
And then the next morning after I've gone to bed
I'll get up to find that he's long since departed, but there's a piece of paper
On the kitchen table, and it'll be a poem about what we were discussing
the night before and I'll sit down with my guitar and pretty soon there's there's music there
Joe [E] exemplifies and epitomizes for me in all of his writing what he calls the spirit of man
This is a song about that
Called the wings that fly us home
There are many ways of being
In the [A] circle
We [E] call a wise man seeks an answer
[F#] Burns his [F#m] candle [B] through the night
[E] Is it you will just a pebble
The found way to [A] shine
Is a hero's blood [E] more righteous [F#] than a [F#m] hobo
[B] Sip of wine
Did [A] [E] I speak to you one morning
[A] on some distant [E] world way
Did you save me from an arrow
[F#] Did you [F#m] lay me [B] in my grave
[E] Were we brothers on the journey
Did you teach me [A] how to run were we broken
[E] Did
[F#] I [F#m] lie you
[B] I
[A] dream [C#] you were a prophet
[G#]
[E] I [A] dreamed [C#] I was a mountain [G#] [E] The wind I
[A] Dreamed [C#] you now to touch [G#] me [E] with a flower
I [A] awoke with this [F#m] a flower
[B] I [A] [E] know
[A] In [E]
the brotherhood of creatures [F#] who the [F#m] father [B] who the son
[E] The vision of your goodness will sustain me through [A] the cold
Take my hand now [E] to remember
[F#] When you [F#m] find yourself [B] alone You'll never
[A] For [E] the spirit
Fills the darkness of the heaven
It [A] fills the endless yearning [E] The soul
It [A] lives [C#] within a [C#m] star [G#] too [E] far to dream of
It [A] lives within [C#m] each [G#] part [B] and is the whole
And [A] it's the [G#m] fire
[F#m] Rings [B] that [E] fly us
Far [A] [E] [A] far
[E] [A] [E]
[N]
And it turns out that they write a song for me about that conversation
One of those people is here tonight.
He's a man who is a poet.
He's a cowboy
He is writing a book that if he ever finishes, I'm sure it will win a Pulitzer Prize
It's over a thousand pages now, and I don't think it's gonna be finished in my lifetime
[G] But Joe Henry has written he and I have written a lot of songs together
Quite often we'll sit and have a conversation about something going on in the world
or something that we perceive [A#] something that we feel and
This has happened on more than one occasion when Joe has been in my home
And then the next morning after I've gone to bed
I'll get up to find that he's long since departed, but there's a piece of paper
On the kitchen table, and it'll be a poem about what we were discussing
the night before and I'll sit down with my guitar and pretty soon there's there's music there
Joe [E] exemplifies and epitomizes for me in all of his writing what he calls the spirit of man
This is a song about that
Called the wings that fly us home
There are many ways of being
In the [A] circle
We [E] call a wise man seeks an answer
[F#] Burns his [F#m] candle [B] through the night
[E] Is it you will just a pebble
The found way to [A] shine
Is a hero's blood [E] more righteous [F#] than a [F#m] hobo
[B] Sip of wine
Did [A] [E] I speak to you one morning
[A] on some distant [E] world way
Did you save me from an arrow
[F#] Did you [F#m] lay me [B] in my grave
[E] Were we brothers on the journey
Did you teach me [A] how to run were we broken
[E] Did
[F#] I [F#m] lie you
[B] I
[A] dream [C#] you were a prophet
[G#]
[E] I [A] dreamed [C#] I was a mountain [G#] [E] The wind I
[A] Dreamed [C#] you now to touch [G#] me [E] with a flower
I [A] awoke with this [F#m] a flower
[B] I [A] [E] know
[A] In [E]
the brotherhood of creatures [F#] who the [F#m] father [B] who the son
[E] The vision of your goodness will sustain me through [A] the cold
Take my hand now [E] to remember
[F#] When you [F#m] find yourself [B] alone You'll never
[A] For [E] the spirit
Fills the darkness of the heaven
It [A] fills the endless yearning [E] The soul
It [A] lives [C#] within a [C#m] star [G#] too [E] far to dream of
It [A] lives within [C#m] each [G#] part [B] and is the whole
And [A] it's the [G#m] fire
[F#m] Rings [B] that [E] fly us
Far [A] [E] [A] far
[E] [A] [E]
[N]
Key:
E
A
B
F#m
F#
E
A
B
There's a very rare occasion that I sit down with someone and have a conversation
And it turns out that they write a song for me about that conversation
One of those people is here tonight.
He's a man who is a poet.
He's a cowboy
He is writing a book that if he ever finishes, I'm sure it will win a Pulitzer Prize
It's over a thousand pages now, and I don't think it's gonna be finished in my lifetime
[G] _ _ But Joe Henry has written he and I have written a lot of songs together
Quite often we'll sit and have a conversation about something going on in the world
or something that we perceive [A#] something that we feel and
This has happened on more than one occasion when Joe has been in my home
And then the next morning after I've gone to bed
I'll get up to find that he's long since departed, but there's a piece of paper
On the kitchen table, and it'll be a poem about what we were discussing
the night before and I'll sit down with my guitar and pretty soon there's there's music there
Joe [E] exemplifies and epitomizes for me in all of his writing what he calls the spirit of man
This is a song about that
Called the wings that fly us home _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ There are many ways of being
In the [A] circle
We [E] call a _ _ wise man seeks an answer
[F#] Burns his [F#m] candle [B] through the night
[E] Is it you will just a pebble
The found way to [A] shine
Is a hero's blood [E] more righteous [F#] than a [F#m] hobo
[B] Sip of wine
Did [A] _ _ _ [E] I speak to you one morning
[A] on some distant [E] world way _
Did you save me from an arrow
_ [F#] Did you [F#m] lay me [B] in my grave
_ [E] Were we brothers on the journey
Did you teach me [A] how to run were we broken
_ [E] Did _
[F#] I [F#m] lie you
[B] I _ _ _
_ _ [A] dream [C#] you were a prophet
[G#]
[E] I _ _ _ _ _ [A] dreamed [C#] I was a mountain [G#] _ [E] The wind _ _ I
[A] Dreamed [C#] you now to touch [G#] me [E] with a flower
I _ _ [A] awoke with this [F#m] a flower
[B] I _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ know _ _
_ _ [A] In _ [E] _ _
the _ _ brotherhood of creatures [F#] who the [F#m] father [B] who the son
[E] The vision of your goodness will sustain me through [A] the cold
Take my hand now [E] to remember
[F#] When you [F#m] find yourself [B] alone You'll never
[A] For _ [E] the spirit
Fills the darkness of the heaven _
It _ _ [A] fills the endless yearning [E] The soul
_ _ It _ [A] lives [C#] within a [C#m] star [G#] too [E] far to dream of
It _ _ _ [A] lives within [C#m] each [G#] part [B] and is the whole
And _ [A] it's the [G#m] fire
[F#m] Rings [B] that [E] fly us
Far _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ far
[E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
And it turns out that they write a song for me about that conversation
One of those people is here tonight.
He's a man who is a poet.
He's a cowboy
He is writing a book that if he ever finishes, I'm sure it will win a Pulitzer Prize
It's over a thousand pages now, and I don't think it's gonna be finished in my lifetime
[G] _ _ But Joe Henry has written he and I have written a lot of songs together
Quite often we'll sit and have a conversation about something going on in the world
or something that we perceive [A#] something that we feel and
This has happened on more than one occasion when Joe has been in my home
And then the next morning after I've gone to bed
I'll get up to find that he's long since departed, but there's a piece of paper
On the kitchen table, and it'll be a poem about what we were discussing
the night before and I'll sit down with my guitar and pretty soon there's there's music there
Joe [E] exemplifies and epitomizes for me in all of his writing what he calls the spirit of man
This is a song about that
Called the wings that fly us home _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ There are many ways of being
In the [A] circle
We [E] call a _ _ wise man seeks an answer
[F#] Burns his [F#m] candle [B] through the night
[E] Is it you will just a pebble
The found way to [A] shine
Is a hero's blood [E] more righteous [F#] than a [F#m] hobo
[B] Sip of wine
Did [A] _ _ _ [E] I speak to you one morning
[A] on some distant [E] world way _
Did you save me from an arrow
_ [F#] Did you [F#m] lay me [B] in my grave
_ [E] Were we brothers on the journey
Did you teach me [A] how to run were we broken
_ [E] Did _
[F#] I [F#m] lie you
[B] I _ _ _
_ _ [A] dream [C#] you were a prophet
[G#]
[E] I _ _ _ _ _ [A] dreamed [C#] I was a mountain [G#] _ [E] The wind _ _ I
[A] Dreamed [C#] you now to touch [G#] me [E] with a flower
I _ _ [A] awoke with this [F#m] a flower
[B] I _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ know _ _
_ _ [A] In _ [E] _ _
the _ _ brotherhood of creatures [F#] who the [F#m] father [B] who the son
[E] The vision of your goodness will sustain me through [A] the cold
Take my hand now [E] to remember
[F#] When you [F#m] find yourself [B] alone You'll never
[A] For _ [E] the spirit
Fills the darkness of the heaven _
It _ _ [A] fills the endless yearning [E] The soul
_ _ It _ [A] lives [C#] within a [C#m] star [G#] too [E] far to dream of
It _ _ _ [A] lives within [C#m] each [G#] part [B] and is the whole
And _ [A] it's the [G#m] fire
[F#m] Rings [B] that [E] fly us
Far _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ far
[E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _