Chords for Jon Charles Dwyer - "Heavy Feathers"

_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _
[Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
I am the only [G] son of [F] my mother
[Dm] She's [C] always saying, [F] Carmel or high water
My grandma's soft voice [Bb] like [F] tattered cotton
[Dm] Saying one [C] of these days I'll [F] get us rich and spoiled rotten
I come from high [Bb] hopes, I [F] come from tall [Dm] truth
A [C] language spoken, [F] hues of greener grass and wild blue
Wasn't always [Bb] healthy, it [F] never [Dm] hurt
Some [C] things get took, some [F] things get lost, some things never know their worth
_ _ _ _ _ I wonder what _ it makes me now, [C]
blood and guts
In a city that [C] pours its insides [Bb] in the streets
[F] I used to be, used to be [Dm] such a breeze
_ [Bb] I've let regret [F] make a mean wind out of me
_ _ _ _ Where's my belief, _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] where's [Dm] my belief
[D] First [F] _ _ _ _
_ time I came [Bb] home, too [F] much was [Dm] missing
We [C] buried our family [F] dog in the backyard that I played in
Wrapped in a [Bb] bath towel, [F] like heavy [Dm] feathers
[C] And death was just [F] the final thread we tied together
I had such high hopes, [Bb] I let [F] them tarry
[Dm] I thought I'd hug [F] your neck on the day that I got married
There's too much blood now, [Bb] there's too [F] much death
[Dm] No grave I know [F] that's deep and wide enough to hold it
And _ [Bb] I wonder why _ [F] it eats my [C] mind, the [Bb] last in line
No [F] grand babe for [C] my [Bb] mother's knee
I [F] don't believe, [C] I [Dm] don't believe
I [Bb] wouldn't do [C] what God [F] done to me _ _ _
_ _ Where's my belief, _ _
[Bb] _ _ [F] where's [Dm] my belief
[C] _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ One [Bb] of these days, I'll [F] have to leave
[C] I don't [Bb] wanna go, knowing [F] all I left [C] behind's a fragile [Bb] ghost of song
I [Dm] hope I'm light, [C] hope I'm easy to [Dm] carry on
I'm [G] just a tune, [C] over the mountain you follow [F] home
_ I'm just [Bb] a tune, over [C] the mountain you follow [F] home _ _ _ _ _ _ _