Joanna Newsom – Kingfisher (Guitar)

G                      F      Am
Whose is the hand that I will hold

G                   F    C
Whose is the face I will see

G                 D     Am
Whose is the name that I will call

    G               F    A
When I Am called to meet thee

G                F       Am
In this life who did you love

G                    F C
Beneath the drifting ashes

G                    D        Am
Beneath the sheeting banks of air

     G                 F A
That barrenly pour our rations

G                     F       Am
When I could speak it was too late

G                  F C
Didn't you hear me calling

G                 D          Am
Didn't you see my heart leap like a

G                   F  A
Pup in the constant barley

G                  F       Am
In this life where did you crouch

G                        F C
When the sky had set to boiling

G              D         Am
Burning within seen from without

        G                 F A
In your gut was a serpent coiling

    Am                   C
And for the sake of that pit of snakes

    G                       D
For whom did you allay your shyness

    Am                      C
And spend on your mercy and madness and grace

     G                       F Am
In a day beneath the bending cypress

F#m           A          D         C               G        F
It was not on principle, show, pro-heart, that you have got gall

F#m  A     D            C       G        F
A miracle: I can bear A lot but not that pall

Am                   C              G                     D
I can bear a lot but not that pall, kingfisher sound the alarm

      Dm                    C
Say, "Sweet little darling, now come to my arms"

     G                              F  G   Am
Tell me all about the love you left on the farm"

Am                C                   G               D
He was a kind and hurried man, with a heavy lip and a steady hand

Dm7                         C               G                    F      Am
But he loved me just like a little child, a little child loves a little lamb

G                       F         Am
Thrown to the ground by something down there

G                               F      C
Bitten by the bad air while the clouds tick

G              D       Am
Trying to read all the signs

   G                   F     A
Preparing for when the bombs hit

G             D     Dsus2 Am
Hung from the under-belly of

    G               D         Dsus2 C
The earth while the stars skid away below

G            D           Em          D
Gormless and brakeless, gravel-loose falling

Dm        A      C      Em
silent as gavels in the snow

Am        C            G                     F   Am
La la la, la la la la, la la la la la la la, la, la

F#m            A
I lay back and spit in my chaw

D               C       G      F
wrapped in the long arm of the law

F#m             A
Who has seen it all

D          C         G        F
I can bear a lot but not that pall

Am                   C              G                     D
I can bear a lot but not that pall, Kingfisher, cast your fly

Dm                  C
Oh, lord it happens without even trying

     G                          F   G     Am
When I sling a low look from my shuttering eye

G                   F       Am
Blows rain upon the one you loved

G                        F  C
And though you were only sparring

        G                  D        Am
There's blood in the eye unlace the glove

    G               F A
Say honey, I am not sorry

G                       F       Am
Stand here and name the one you loved

G                    F C
Beneath the drifting ashes

G        D         Am
And in naming rise above

G                     F  A
Time as it, flashing, passes

Am   C    G    D
Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh

Am   C    G    D
Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh

Am         C             G          D
We came by the boatload and were immobilized

Am          C           G           D
Worshipping volcanoes, charting the loping skies

Am           C              G            D
The tides of the earth left us bound and calcified, and made us

Am           C         G        D
Obstinate as obsidian, unmoving save our eyes

Am           C             G          D
Just mooning and blinking, from faces marked with coal

Am          C              G              D
Ash cooling and shrinking, cracks loud as thunder rolling, I swear

Am          C            G             D
I know you, you know me, where have we met before, tell me true

Am          C      G         D
To whose authority do you consign your soul?

Am                C                 G                         D
I had a dream you came to me, said, "You shall not do me harm anymore"

Am                           C                       G                        F Am
And with your knife you evicted my life from its little lighthouse on the seashore

Am                        C           G                             D
And I saw that my blood had no bound, spreading in a circle like an atom bomb

Dm                      C                       G                          F    Am
Soaking and felling everything in its path, and welling in my heart like a bird-bath

Am              C                   G                    D
It is too short the day we are born we commence with our dying

Dm                       C                 G                        F A
Trying to serve with the heart of a child, Kingfisher, lie with the lion