Iron & Wine – Freedom Hangs Like Heaven (Guitar)

G#m
Mary, carry your babe

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Bound up tight like lips around a whimper

     G#m
Your fingers over my face

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Blind eyed Sampson driven to the temple

    G#m
And night birds digging 'til dawn

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Freedom hangs like heaven over everyone

G#m
Ain't nobody knows what a newborn holds

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But his mama says he'll walk on water

    B5         G#m
And wander back home

G#m
Mary, carry your shame

G#m                 C#              B5
Well past all those eyes across the avenue

G#m
Fish heads running from rain

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You know I'll do anything you want me to

G#m
Lamp oil lovers may say,

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"Freedom hangs like heaven over everyone"

G#m
Ain't nobody knows what a newborn holds

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But his papa's gonna hide shaking gristle

    B5          G#m
And shaking like bone

G#m
Mary, carry my name

G#m                  C#           B5
Hoof marks hacked up all I had to offer you

G#m
Look all over this place

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Lost your portrait lately when the winter blew

G#m
In like Herod and them

G#m                C#          B5
Freedom hangs like heaven over everyone

G#m
Ain't nobody knows what a newborn holds

      G#m                          C#
But a dollar says he'll lick that devil

    B5      G#m
And do it alone