Indigo Girls – Tether (Guitar)

            E                  Bm
Whatever it was, is wasn't manumission

             A                  E
To spill the blood, to pull the weed

                 E                     Bm
You can bury the past, but it's a mausoleum

                    A                   E
With the ghost of a fist that won't let us be

E                 Bm
Can we bring it together,

                     A                        E
Can we call from the mountain to the valley below?

E                Bm
Can we make it better,

                 A                      E
Do we tether the hawk, do we tether the dove?

                E                          Bm
I kicked up the dirt, and I said to my neighbor

                   A                         E
"We keep making it worse, we keep getting it wrong"

                 E                            Bm
He tucked in his shirt, he stood a little bit straighter,

                    A                              E
"We need a few less words dear, we need a few more guns."

E                       Bm
But will it bring us together,

                     A                        E
Can we call from the mountain to the valley below?

E                Bm
Can we make it better,

                 A                      E
Do we tether the hawk, do we tether the dove?

N.C.     C#m
Enduring love

       A           E         D                 A
Why so much and so strong, beyond this short existence?

G#m         C#m
So don't be still

                  E
You say there's a long line behind you

         D                A
And it's hardly worth the mentioning

G#m      C#m
   But I will

             E
Cause we may flicker and fade,

       D              A
But we never will be through with this

           E                      Bm
I see this world battered but not broken

                 A                               E
There's a fallow heart, it's waiting on a sowing hand

                      E                        Bm
You can grow what you want, one day it's gonna rise up

                  A                     E
So plant what you need to make a better stand

E                     Bm
And we'll bring it together,

                        A                        E
And we'll call from the mountain to the valley below.

E                 Bm
And we'll make it better,

              A                      E
Let go of the hawk, we let go of the dove.

          E                      Bm                                                A
I sing to you,                           all you true believers

                                          E
With the strength to see this                     and not be still.

                E                    Bm                                                     A
I'm telling you now,                         find the hope that feeds you,

                                         E
Don't let 'em bleed you                        of your will.