Chords for Matt & Shannon Heaton with Kieran Jordan - The Blackbird - Acadia Trad School 2017

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_ _ _ _ _ _ I am a poor girl, my misfortune seems _ sad.
[Bb] Many months I've been _ courted _ [Dm] _
in [C] sailor _ land.
I've courted him through _ thee. _
I am a [F] demon, now my young _ sailor [G] has gone far [C] _ away. _ _ _
_ _ He's gone from the blackbird, from the slender [Fm] sea.
I follow the vessel, [C] my true love sails in.
In the top reef, [Dm] I care for [C] my [Dm] master, lie all night [G] long on his [C] melancholy white _ breast. _ _ _
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My love's tall and [G] handsome, with [Bbm] every [C] degree [F] his parents [G] despise him, because he loves [C] me.
He's open, responsive, so the day he [Dm] will watch, when in my [G] body I'll go [C] by him and _ still.
_ _ I'm a red blackbird, from the slender sea.
[F] I follow [Bb] the vessel, my [G] true love sails [C] in.
In the top reef, I care for my [Dm] master, lie all night [G] long on his _ [C] melancholy white breast.
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_ The wind is soft, but my body [Dm] cannot wait.
_ _ [G] To my true love I'd sail, I'd tell my best fortune.
My [F] sad [C] little man now [F] will always fly again, [G] to my true [C] love I _ go.
_ _ If I were a blackbird, from the slender sea.
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I follow the [G] vessel, my true love sails [C] in.
In the top reef, I care for my [A] master, lie all night [G] long on his [C] melancholy white breast.
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[C] If I were a paper, I'd sing for love's sake.
[Bb] _ It's been coloured, [C] worn by the sun rays.
Its features amazing, his eyes far more flying.
[G] The lights [C] are, in the blue _ skies above.
_ _ _ Oh, if I were a blackbird, from the slender [F] sea.
I follow the [G] vessel, my true love sails [C] in.
In the top reef, I care for my [F] master, lie all night long [G] on his [C] melancholy white breast.
_ I follow _ _ [D] _ [Em]
the vessel, _ _ [Dm] _ [G] my true love sails in.
In [D] the top reef, [Em]
I care for my master, [Gm] lie all night [F] long [C] on his melancholy white _ breast.
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