Chords for Will Varley - Blood and Bone (Slate the Disco Sessions)

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[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
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Hi, _ _ [Fm] I'm Will Varley, this is a song called Blood and Bone.
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_ _ Men are made from blood [Eb] and bone like [Fm] metals made from dust _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] Men are bound to die [Bb] alone like metals bound to rust
[Fm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Late, late, [Eb] late [Fm] night on the hill
[Cm] Poet came a-knockin' on the shaman's [Fm]
windowsill
_ Held me my [Eb] words, don't visit [Fm]
anymore
[Cm] _ Shaman he laughed, [Bb] the mouse up from [Fm] the floor
They sat there in the dark, [Eb] Balamut he was [Fm] prepared
From [Cm] the blood of the mouse [Bb] and an eagle's head
[Fm] _
Drink this, said the shaman, [Eb] it'll calm your [Fm] brain
I [Cm] promise words will flow from you [Bb] like the sky flows [Fm] rain _
But a poet he drank, till [Cm] the glass was [Fm] bare
[Cm] While outside a nightingale [Bb] sang in the [Fm] air
Thank you, said the poet, [Bb] may the gods bless [Fm] your soul
[Cm] He shook the old man's hand, [Eb] walked out into the cold
[Fm]
Early next morning [Eb] as the sun began [Fm] to rise
[Cm] _
Screams rang out [Bb] across the old [Fm] diamond mine
My lover, my lover
[Eb] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _
_ [Cm] Next to his wife [Bb] lay the poet in his [Fm] bed
_ _ _ _ _ Said men are made from blood and bone [Eb] like metals made [Fm] from dust _ _
_ _ _ [Cm] Men are bound to die [Eb] alone like metals bound to rust
[Fm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] After many years have passed and [Eb] gone, many tears cried
[Cm] But still no one could console [Bbm] the poor old poet's [F] pride
Boy in this life, in the next, [Eb] still she [F] implored
[Cm] That one of these days [Eb] she would see her [Fm] love once more
_ [F] Then one day in the winter while [Eb] the famines [F] took a hold
[Cm] _ Into a tavern [C] walked a stranger from the cold
Said I'm looking for my lover, [Eb] I've been away for [Fm] many years
_ _ _ [Cm] _ Poet's widow [Bb] was a summon from her tears
Leave it to you, said the widow, then where have you [F] been?
[Cm] Demon said the stranger, [Bb] they took me from [Fm] my sleep
They locked me in a cave, [Eb] put nails through [Fm] my skull
[Cm] I escaped with the help [F] of this lonesome [Fm] nightingale
_ Leave it to you, said the widow, [Eb] then sing [F] me a line
[Cm] _ Stranger cleared his [F] throat, looked deep into [Fm] her eye
_ Said men are made from blood and bone [G] like metals made [Fm] from [G] dust
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[Cm] Men are bound to die alone [Eb] like metals bound
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They drank and they danced [Eb] late [F] into the night
[Cm] But the poet's aging [C] father was not so [Fm] satisfied
Early next morning [Eb] strangers awoken with a [F] fight
As [Cm] the police came to [Bb] take samples of his [Fm] blood
[F] And when the results of their tests came in
[Cm] Poet's father screamed, [C] I knew it wasn't [Fm] him
_ Well hello the _ executioner now sharpens his [Fm] blade
[Cm] From doing God's work, [Bb] a living he [Fm] made
And just before he raised his axe up to the birds
[Cm] He asked the [Bb] stranger, do you have any last [F] words?
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_ [Cm] But a shaman _ smiles up on the [Fm] hill
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] His promise to the poet [Fm] was fulfilled
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[Fm] _ _ _ [Cm] And the widow, she [Bb] cries to the [F] moon
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[Cm] And the nightingale _ [Eb] _ sang her [Fm] last tune _ _ _ _ _
Said men are made from blood and [Eb] bone like metals [Fm] made from dust
_ _ _ _ [Cm] Men are bound to die alone [Eb] like metals bound [Fm] She cried
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