CAPO 3
Amajb5, A5
Amajb5, A5
Amajb5 A5
my heart became a drunken runt
A5 A5
on the day i sunk in this shunt
A5
to tap me clean
Asus2b5
of all the wonder
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and the sorrow i have seen
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since i left my home
Amajb5, A5
my home on the old milk lake
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where the darkness does fall so fast
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it feels like some kind of mistake
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just like they told you it would
A5
just like they told you it would
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when i came into my land
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i did not understand
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neither dry rot or the burn pile or the bark
beetle or the dry well
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or the black bale
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but there is another
E5
who is a little older
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when i broke my bone,
E5
he carried me up from the riverside
B5
to spend my life in spitting distance
E5
of the love that i have known
G#5
i must stay here
E5
in an endless eveningtide
B5
and if you come and see me
E5
you'll upset the order
G#5
you cannot come and see me
E5
for i set myself apart
B5
but when you come and see me
E5
in California
G#5 ( F#5 ) B5
you cross the border of my heart
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well, i have sown untidy furrows 'cross my soul
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but i am still a coward
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content to see my garden grow so sweet
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and full of someone else's flowers
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sometimes i can almost feel the power
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sometimes i am so in love with you
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like a little clock that trembles on the edge of the hour
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only ever calling out "cuck-oo, hoo-oo, hoo-oo"
( F#5 ) Amajb5
when i called you
A5
you little one
A5
in a bad way
A5
did you love me?
do you spite me?
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time will tell
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if i can be well
A5
and rise to meet you rightly
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when moving across my land
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brandishing themselves like a burning branch
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advance the tallow-colored, wall-eyed deer
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quiet as gondoliers
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well, i wait all night for you in California
G#5
watching the fox pick off my goldfish
E5
from their sorry, golden state
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and i am no longer afraid of anything
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save the life that here awaits
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i don't belong to anyone
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my heart is heavy as an oil drum
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and i don't want to be alone
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my heart is yellow as an ear of corn
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and i have torn my soul apart
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from pulling artlessly with fool commands
G#5 ( F#5 )
some nights i just never go to sleep at all
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and i stand
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shaking in the doorway like a sentinel, all alone
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bracing like the bow upon a ship
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and fully abandoning
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any thought of anywhere but home
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my home
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sometimes i can almost feel the power
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and i do love you
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is it only timing that has made it such a dark hour
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only ever chiming out "cuck-oo, hoo-oo, hoo-oo"
F#5
*stabs*
G#5 ( F#5 ) E5 ( F#5 )
cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a
G#5 ( F#5 ) E5 ( F#5 )
cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a
G#5 ( F#5 ) E5 ( F#5 )
cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a
G#5 ( F#5 ) E5 ( F#5 )
cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a
Amajb5
my heart
A5
i wear you down
A5
i know
A5
gotta think straight
keep a clean plate
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keep from wearing down
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if i lose my hay
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just where am i going to lay?
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for it has half who need to be hanging around
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Here among the Daphne blooming out of the big ground
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i'm a native too, but i'm overgrown
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i am sure my roots are near here as rich as rope
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here down
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in California
