Chords for Kathy Mattea, Red Winged Blackbird

It's part of the mystery of it all, you know.
A song will get written and it'll
get out in the world and have [B] this life of its own and sometimes a song gets
written in one time frame and comes [Ab] back around and that's sort of the [G] story with
this one.
This is a really beautiful piece of work.
This is a song written by
Billy Ed Wheeler.
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_ [Bb] Oh can't [Db] you see that [Ab] pretty [F] little bird
_ _ _ [Bbm] [Ab] Singing with all [F] his heart and soul
_ _ [Bbm] He's [Db] got a blood red [Ab] spot [Bb] on his [F] wing
[Bbm] And [Ab] all the rest [C] of him's black as [F] coal _ _ _ _ _
[Bbm] Of [Db] all the colors [Ab] I ever did [F] see
_ _ [Bb] _ [Fm] Red and black are the [C] ones I [Bb] [F] dread
_ [Bbm] Oh [Db] when a man [Ab] spills blood [F] on the coal _
[Bbm] They carry [Ab] him down [F] from the coal mine _
[Bb] _ _ [Bbm] _ [F] Oh _ [Bb] _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] [Db] fly away you [Ab] red [F] winged bird _ _
[Bbm] Leave [Ab] behind [F] the miner's wife
_ _ [Bbm] She'll dream [Db] about you [Ab] when [F] you're gone
_ _ [Bbm] She'll [Ab] dream about [C] you [F] all her life
_ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] Oh [Db] can't you see [Ab] that pretty [F] little bird _ _
[Bbm] _ [Ab] Singing with [F] all his heart and soul
_ _ [Bbm] He's got [Db] a blood red [Ab] spot [F] on his wing
_ [Bbm] And [Ab] all the rest of [Fm] him's [F] black as coal
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