Chords for Kingfisher

_ _ Whose is the hand [F] that I [Am] will hold?
[G] _ Whose is the face [F] I will [C] see?
_ [G] _ Whose is the [D] name that [Am] I will call
[G] When I am [F] called to _ [A] meet thee?
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[G] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [G] In this life who [F] did [A] you _ [G] love?
_ Beneath the drifting _ [F] _
_ [C] ashes
_ _ [G] _ Beneath the [D] _ sheeting [Am] banks of air
That [A] _
_ barrenly [F] bore our _ passions
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [G]
When I could speak [Dm] it [F] was too [Am] late
_ [G] _ Didn't you hear me [F] _ _ [C] calling? _ _
Didn't you see [F] my horn _ [A] _ _
barley?
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
In this life where [Gm] did [Am] you [G] crouch?
When the sky had set [Gm] to _ _ [C] boiling
_ [G] _
Burning [D] within, seen from [Am] without
In your [G] gut and within, [D] seen [Am] from without
In your [G] gut was a [F] serpent _ _ [A] goily
_ [Am] And for the sake of that pit of snakes
[G] For whom did you relay [D] your _ shyness?
And [Am] spend all your mercy and [C] madness and grace
[G] In a day beneath the bending _ [A] cypress _ _
[F#m] It was not on [A] principle _ shown
[D] How hard [G] that you have got [F] on
_ [F#m] Oh, [A] miracle, _ _ I [C] can tell a [G] lot but not [F] that tall
[Am] Oh, _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] _ King Fish, oh, sound [D] your lull
_ _ [Dm] See, sweet little carp, [G] now come to my arms
Tell me all about the love [F] you left on [G] the [Am] farm
He was a [A] kind and free [C] _ man
[G] With a heavy [D] lip and a steady hand
[Dm] But he loved me just [C] like a little [G] child
A little child _ loves a little [Am] _ lamb
[G] Thrown to the ground by [F] something [A] down [G] there
Bitten by the bad [F] air while the [C] clouds tick
[G] _ Trying to [D] _
read [Am] all the signs
_ [G] Preparing for [F] when the bombs [A] hit _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ Hung _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ from [E] the _ underbelly [Am] of the [G] earth
[Bm] While the stars [D] skid away [C] below _
[G] _ Gormless [D] and [Em] breakless, gravel loose
Falling [Dm] _ silent [A] as cavils [C] in the [Em] snow
[Am] La _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [G]
la la la [F] la la [Am] la la _
_ [F#m] _ Knee-deep [A] and steep and mature
[D] A rat in the [G] long arm of [F] a _ log
Oh, [A] see it all, [D] I can [C] tell a lot [G] but not [F] that tall
[Am] Oh, _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [G] King Fish, your castle [E] of [G] love
_ _ [Dm] _ _ Up [C] into cloudy sunshine
When [G] I swing a loader from [F] a shelter [E] at [Am] night
[G]
Lows rain upon [Am] the _ _ _ _ [G] wood, though you were [F] only _ [C] sparring
There's [G] blood on the [D] iron [Am] lace, the clouds say
[G] _
Honey, I am [F] not _ [A] _
sorry
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [G] _ Stand here and name the [F] one you [Am] love _
_ [G] _ Beneath the drifting [F] _ _
[C] _ ashes
[G] _ And in [D]
naming _ [Am] rise up all [G] _ time
As it _ [F] flashing _ [A] _ _
passes
[Am] _ _ _ [A] Ooh, _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ ooh, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] ooh
He [Am] came [C] by _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ [A] _ worshipping
[C] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] Volcanoes _ _ _ charting [D] open _ _ skies _
[A] _ _ [Am] The tides [C] _
of the earth [G]-land _
All _ _ [D] _ _ spousal-fied and [A] made as _ _ obstinate [C] as _ _ obsidian
_ [G] _
_ _ Unmoving, _ [D] stable _ _ eyes
[A] _ _ Just _ [C] mooning _ and [G] blinking _
_ _ _ Faces [D] _ marred with _ [A] gold
_ As [E] cooling _ _ [C] and shrinking _
[G] _ _ Cracks loud [D] as thunder
_ Oh, Lin, [Am] I swear I know _ [C] you
You know [G] me
_ _ _ How many [D] _
people tell you [Am] truth
Who rules _ _ _ authority
_ [D] _ _ Do the _ consign your suit
[Am] I have a dream, [C] and you keep fooling me
[G] So you shall not do [C] me harm
[D] And I will not
[A] I _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[C] _ lie from its [G] little lighthouse on the seashore
And I saw the _ _ [Dm] _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ day circle [D] like _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ soaking in the [C] _
_ _ [G] _ weather
Welling in my heart like a [Am] bird's bell
_ [E] If we treat it too short
The day we are born
[A] We comment _ without [D]
warning
_ _ _ [Dm] Crying to soothe the [C] heart of a child
Then [G] _ _
shall I reply _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
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