Song: Kingdom of the Animals
Band: Iron & Wine
Album: Around the Well / Boy with a Coin Single
As played by Sam Beam acoustically at Abrons Art Center, NY, May 18, 2009.
Standard Tuning: Capo V
Intro:
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Verse:
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1. Jenny was gone and the moon blooms all shin-
2. Jenny was gone and I thought that I knew
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-ing As we
her And the
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dragged our panic up and down sweating wild and weird in our
the riverbed Sunday clothes
wind came howling out of Virginia blue tick blowing the water out
its nose
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Bridge:
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3. Jenny and me in the front row and sing-
4. Jenny and me on the hilltop and peek-
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-ing ?bout how
-ing at all their
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3. heaven calls the kingdom of all and all revealed to us one day
the animals
4. upturned bottles jumping jaw harp teasing the brushfire
like leopards in its rage
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Interlude:
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Verse:
5. Jenny came back and the wet road still shining
In our eyes an angel, clear and coronal, clothed in all that?s
prodigal and strange
6. Jenny came back and I thought that I heard her
Murmur something ?bout ?No men in Virginia? spat on the ground like
a letter tossed away
Bridge:
7. Jenny and me in my dead truck and turning over
Just where heaven calls the kingdom of the animals scratching our
heads where the wolf would go to lay
Final Bridge:
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8. Jenny and me and the moon blooms were clos-
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-ing and both her
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8.wide-eyed brothers dreaming the heat of the
running like shepherds fields all in
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