• Song:

    Blackhawk

  • Artist:

    Emmylou Harris

  • Album:

    Wrecking Ball

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Well I work the double shift  
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In a bookstore on St. Clair 
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While he pushed the burning ingots 
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In Dofasco stinking air 
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Where the truth bites and stings 
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I remember just what we were 
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As the noon bell rings for Blackhawk and the white winged dove 
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Hold on to your aching heart 
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I'll wipe the liquor from your lips 
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A small town hero never dies 
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He fades a bit and then he slips 
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Down into the blast furnance 
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In the heat of the open hearth 
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And at the punch clock he remembers  
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Blackhawk and the white winged dove 
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I remember your leather boots 
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Pointing up into the sky we fell down to our knees 
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Over there where the grass grew high 
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Love hunters in the night 
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Our faces turned into the wind 
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Blackhawk where are you now 
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Blackhawk and the white winged dove 
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We were Blackhawk and the white winged dove 
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We were Blackhawk and the white winged dove 
 
SOLO 
 

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Do you still have the ring I gave you 
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On the banks of Lake Bear 
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Where I felt certain that I knew you 
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My cool and distant debonair 
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Now we drink at Liberty Station 
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Another cup of muscatel 
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Wrapped in the strong arms of the Union  
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Raisin' kids from raisin' hell 
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I remember your leather boots 
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Pointing up into the sky we fell down to our knees 
                                Bb5  Bb5 Bb5 
Over there where the grass grew high 
Bb5                  Eb5  Eb5 Eb5 
Love hunters in the night 
                           Bb5  Bb5 Bb5 
Our faces turned into the wind 
                        F5  F5 F5 
Blackhawk where are you now 
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Blackhawk and the white winged dove 
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We were Blackhawk and the white winged dove 
        F5                              Bb5 
We were Blackhawk and the white winged dove 
        Eb5                             Bb5 
We were Blackhawk and the white winged dove 
        F5                              Bb5 
We were Blackhawk and the white winged dove
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