Four Black Sheep
Martha Wainwright
Note: This is a free-flowing song; the chords are all right, but where
exactly in the lyrics chord changes take place changes, depending on the
whim of the performer.  Proper chord voicings, where uncommon, may be found
at the bottom.

D5 *
Get in the car we're late for the gig
                                 C5           E5  A5
But don't go too fast it's been snowin' since 10 am
   C5          E5              A5
We never will be this free again
     D5
Just over the bridge, crossin' the Gatineau
               C5              E5               A5
To the side that I know where the light becomes strange
          C5     E5            A5
And we'll never be this free again.
D5
On our way home singin' the songs that we learned on our mother?s knee
C5          E5         A5
Four black sheep in need
C5           E5            A5
Tryin' or cryin' to be free.
D5           D5              D5        A5 A5           A5 A5
Jesse's been drinkin' again and again he won't believe, he can't believe
A5  A5   A5 A5           G5
We can see right through his soul.
D5
Mom and Dad are on their way, they know these roads
             C5            E5      A5
They've been travelling a lonely life.
C5                          E5           A5
Black sheep they too were born in the night.
          D5
And we'll meet at the lodge to suck on life as we look up at the sky 
     C5        E5         A5
that we don't feel the same.
          C5     E5             A5
And we'll never be this free again.
F#5                                        E5  E5
May walked away in the snow sayin' she was through.
    F#5
And Frere Jacques would never want to ring the bell to tell us all
           E5  E5
We already knew
A5 *                                                      B5 *
That out there in the freezing night we will not be all right
A5 *
Four black sheep travellin' different speeds

Angry at the world

Losing their way in the cold blue snow.
                           E5 *
Red on black on white - it glowed.
           C5  E5                 A5
We will never feel that free again.
         C5    E5                 A5
We will never feel that free again.
E5 *
After the show back on the road to Montreal
           D5        F#5           B5
There were diamonds piercin' our eyes
        D5           E5             B5
And the snow pilin' up on either side.
E5
Jesse took the wheel, there was an appeal to stop the ride
            D5               F#5          B5
but we were just four black sheep in the night.
D5           F#5           B5
Tryin' to hold on for our lives.
E5
We never made it home - spinnin' out on the road
                                 D5       F#5                B5
We took to the sky where we were finally free for the last time.
D5                  F#5        B5
Flyin' high at the end of our lives.
D5                F#5               B5
Four black sheep deep in the white light
D5               F#5          B5
Red on black on white in the night
       D5               F#5           B5
I said red on black on white in the night
       D5               F#5           B5
I said red on black on white in the night
D5               F#5           B5
Red on black on white in the night
D5                F#5          B5
Red on black on white in the night?
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