Bruce Cockburn – Messenger Wind (Guitar)

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[Chords] F [x x 3 2 1 1] G [3 2 0 0 0 3] C/G [3 3 2 0 1 0] C [x 3 2 0 1 0] Am9 [x 0 5 5 0 0] [x 0 10 12 0 0] Fmaj9/A [x 0 3 0 1 0] [x 0 3 0 1 3] Dm9 [x x 0 7 6 0] G6/9 [x x 5 2 0 0] [Verse 1]
F                                G
In a horse-powered sleigh at the top of the town

C                        F                         C
Sun coming up paints the snow all around with rose light
G C/G C [Verse 2]
F                               G
In front of the house where I'm supposed to be born

C                          F                           C
I don't think I'm ready to walk through that door just yet
G C/G C [Verse 3]
F                           G
To be one more voice in the human choir

C                          F                    C
Rising like smoke from the mystical fire of the heart
G C/G C [Instrumental] F G C F C G C [Verse 4]
F                           G
The wind that blows through everything

C                          F                    C
Sweeps out the halls of my heart when I sing to you
G C/G C [Verse 5]
F                           G
It carries the moon and the stars and the rain

C                        F                C
Carries the seagulls and carries my shame away
G C/G C [Verse 6]
F                         G
Spins me around, stops me running away

C                             F                  C
From all the things I've been waiting to say But don't
G C/G C [Bridge]
Am9                   Fmaj9/A
Here                  Is bigger than you can imagine

Am9                   Fmaj9/A
Now

                 Dm9                   G6/9
Is               for  -    e    -      ver
[Instrumental] F G C F C G C/G C [Verse 7]
F                        G
Sun coming up paints the snow all around

C                         F                    C
Rose on the roofs and the trees and the ground and the stream

G                C/G     C
                         In my dream
[Verse 8]
F                       G
Messenger wind swooping out of the sky

C                            F            C
Lights each tiny speck in my human kaleidoscope

G         C/G          C
                  With hope