Chimney Sweeping Man Chords by Laura Veirs

_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[C] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[D] I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a chimney sweeping [Bb]
man.
_ [A] See [G] the black lines on the backs, [C] on the backs [Bb] of my hands.
_ [A] _ [G] I planted all the gardens, I sent off [C] all the hand [Bb]-typed letters. _
[D] To the empty shells on high.
I wanna make [Bb] things better.
I [Gm] wanna make things [D] better. _
[C] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [C] _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] Maybe you thought I'd be president with my [Bb] Cheshire grin, high IQ [G] and charming baby blue.
[Dm] _ _
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ Well [Gm] I'm a little land [D] forest resident [E] with lime in the outhouse and [G] black [Gm] lime for [D] tattoo.
_ _ _ [A] _
_ I try [A] to make [D] things better.
I [C] try to [Bb] make things mine.
[A] I write a lot of [Dm] letters _ [C] to pass [Bb] the time. _ _
[A] I pulled [D] 300 rocks from the [C] land to build [Bb] my house.
_ [D] I walk quiet through the forest like a tiny [C] quiet [Bb] forest mouse.
_ [D] I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a [C] chimney [Dm] sweeping man. _ _
You see the black [D] lines in the [C] backs, on the backs of [Dm] my [Bb] hands.
_ [A] I'm a, [D] I'm a, I'm a, I'm a [C] chimney [Dm] sweeping man.
_ _ [A] You see [D] the black lines on the backs, on [C] the backs of [Bb] my hands. _ _
[C] I'm [D] a, I'm a, I'm a, [C] I'm a genius in [Bb] the game of mine
When [D] you see the black lines on the [C] backs, on the backs of [Dm] mine
_ _ _ [D] I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a [C] genius [Dm] in the game of mine
When you see the [D] black lines on the backs, on the backs of [Bb]
mine
_ _ [A] [D] I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a [C] genius [Dm] in the game of mine
_ When you see [D] the black lines on the backs, [C] on the backs of mine
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _