Iron & Wine – Hickory (Guitar)

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G                          Am             C          G Am C
he kissed her once as she leaned on the windowsill

G                         Am              C      G     Am C
she'll never love him but knows that her father will

G                        Am            C             
her fallen fruit is all rotten in the middle but her

G             Am              C      
breast never dries when he's hungry
G Am C x2 the money came and she died in her rocking chair the window wide and the rain in her braided hair a letter locked in the pattern of her knuckle like a hymn to the house she was making G Am C x2
G                     Am             C
blind and whistling just around the corner and there's a 

G             Am        C
wind that is whispering something

G                       Am      C
strong as hell but not hickory rooted
G Am C x2 she kissed him once cause he gave her a cigarette and turned around but he waits like a turned down bed and summer left like her walking with another and a sound of a church bell ringing G Am C x2 the money came and he died like a butterfly a buried star and the haze of the city lights a gun went off and her mother dropped her baby on the blue feathered wing - we were lucky G Am C x2
G                     Am             C
blind and whistling just around the corner and there's a 

G             Am        C
wind that is whispering something

G                       Am      C
strong as hell but not hickory rooted
G Am C x12