Artist: Bowerbirds
Song: Matchstick Maker
Album: Hymns for a Dark Horse



Tabbed by: Hunter MacDermut

Intro/Verses
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"Dredge the Cedar River
For a previous life
Or scour the clears above
In search of lost time"

Pre-Chorus

C/G (3x555x@1)        F"You'll (133211@1)never find a body
       C/G (3x555x@1)              FAs (133211@1)the Palisades crumble slowly
         C/G (3x555x@1)     E (022100@1)           F (133211@1) (F#)
And they claim the past as their own"

Chorus

G7 (320001@1)          F"Branded (133211@1)skin, broken vessel
C (x32010@1)               AmTook (x02210@1)a job in the city
       F (133211@1)   C/G (3x555x@1)           Am (x02210@1) Am/E (x02210@1) FMaking (133211@1)matchsticks to start other men's fires
Am Am/E F
Oh..."

Verse (same as above)

"Gorgeous blooms on these cliffs
Missed a battery of sticks and twigs
Gravity toils away"

Pre-Chorus

C/G (3x555x@1)           F"Blisters (133211@1)on his hands from tightening ropes all day
C/G (3x555x@1)               FLashing (133211@1)down all it sees
         C/G (3x555x@1)         E (022100@1)          FBut (133211@1)it's poised like a father's and not like a king's
        C/G (3x555x@1)       E (022100@1)                FAnd (133211@1)the rule of the land's more like a strong suggestion
        C/G (3x555x@1)          E (022100@1)          F (133211@1)         (F#)
And the strong current begs for the open ocean"

Chorus x2

Chorus sans words x2