Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band – Eagle On A Pole (Ukulele)

         C         Am
Saw an eagle on a pole

    C               Am
I think it was an eagle

  C        C/B      Am               F 
Watched its shadow fly across the cement

    C             Am
I woke up in the snow

         C                     Am
All the trees were crowds of people

    C        C/B       Am              F
No coat, no shoes, no idea where they went

                Am         C
I followed the fence line thin

                Am      C
Back where the yard begins

     E                             G             F
My woman, she stood crying like a man

                       G             F
Said, "Where have you been

                 G
Where have you been?"

    C          C/B       Am              F
I thought you said that all of that was done

    C    C/B  Am
El cielo es azul

             F              C
Just don't go telling everyone

              C           Am
Thought the kettle was a train

               C                 Am 
Thought that Monday was a door frame

    C       C/B     Am             F         
I tried so hard to finally settle down

           C            Am
Heard the fire pop and snap

        C          Am
Like a tack piano rag

   C        C/B     Am           F   
I never could get used to happy sounds

                Am         C 
But I hope the world's exposed

               Am       C
A cruel and elaborate hoax

        E                            G             F
That convinces me to walk without a cane

                 G             F
But what can you do

              G
What can you do

    C      C/B       Am              F
I always heard that what is done is done

    C    C/B  Am
El cielo es azul

             F              C
Just don't go telling everyone

     C               Am
The past don't ever quit

         C            Am
There's boxes in the attic

 C    C/B       Am         F    
Baby shoes and taxidermy dreams

           C            Am         
While the ashes of the dead, 

        C         Am
like a dandelion head

   C   C/B            Am                F
Explode and then are scattered by the breeze

                 Am       C           
And it's such a long way back 

           Am     C
to all the fun I had

        E                           G             F
When nothing ever seemed to bother me

                  G
But what can you do

     F               G             F
Child, what can you do

         C         C/B        Am          F
Sleep beneath the stars, and toil in the sun

    C    C/B  Am
El cielo es azul

             F              C
Just don't go telling everyone

    C    C/B  Am
El cielo es azul

             F              C
Just don't go telling everyone