Anaïs Mitchell – Hey Little Songbird (Guitar)

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[Verse] (HADES)
Cm          G#       Gm       Cm
[tab]Cm         G#         Bb         G
I'm a busy man and I can't stay long

      Cm          G#         Eb         G7
I got clients to call I got orders to fill

       Cm       G#          Eb        G
I got walls to build I got riots to quell

            Cm         G#           G
And they're giving me hell back in Hades
[Verse]
Cm          G#       Gm           Cm
Hey little songbird cat got your tongue

Cm        G#              Bb         G
Always a pity for one so pretty and young

      Cm      G#        Eb        G
When poverty comes to clip your wings

     Cm        G#        Eb            G
And knock the wind right out of your lungs

     Cm     G#       G
Hey nobody sings on empty
[Chorus] (EURYDICE)
Eb                            Bb      Eb
Strange is the call of this strange man

Eb         Cm            C#          Cm
I want to fly down and feed at his hand

Eb                   Bb       G
I want a nice soft place to land

Eb        G        Cm
I wanna lie down forever
(hey..) [Verse] (HADES)
  Cm            G#          Gm             Cm
(..Hey) little songbird you got something fine

       Cm           G#      Bb          G
You'd shine like a diamond down in the mine

         Cm        G#              Eb          G7
And the choice is yours if you're willing to choose

Cm      G#            Eb          G
Seeing as you've got nothing to lose

    Cm      G#     G
And I could use a canary
[Chorus] (EURYDICE)
Eb                   Bb     Eb
Suddenly nothing is as it was

Eb             Cm   C#  Cm
Where are you now Orpheus

Eb                     Bb    G
Wasn't it always the two of us

Eb           G          Cm
Weren't we birds of a feather
[Verse] (HADES)
Cm          G#      Gm      Cm
Hey little songbird let me guess

      Cm           G#            Bb   G
He's some kind of poet and he's penniless

Cm             G#         Eb            G7
Give him your hand he'll give you his hand-to-mouth

       Cm          G#            Eb       G
He'll write you a poem when the power's out

    Cm           G#            G
Hey why not fly south for the winter

Cm          G#       Gm       Cm
Hey little songbird look all around you

Cm           G#         Bb          G
See how the vipers and vultures surround you

Cm                G#           Eb        G7
They'll take you down they'll pick you clean

   Cm          G#           Eb          G
If you stick around such a desperate scene

     Cm         G#            G         N.C.
See people get mean when the chips are down