Misc Musicals – Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street - Green Finch And Linnet Bird (Guitar)

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[Intro] Eb G F Eb F Eb [Verse]
F
Green finch and linnet bird,

Bb
Nightingale, blackbird,

F                 Eb
How is it you sing?

Dm
How can you jubilate,

E
Sitting in cages,

Am              E
Never taking wing?

Am
Outside the sky waits,

Ab
Beckoning, beckoning,

Am              Am - G - F#
Just beyond the bars.

F
How can you remain,

Bb
Staring at the rain,

Dm          Eb
Maddened by the stars?

F                Eb
How is it you sing

Bb
Anything? How is it you sing?

F
Green finch and linnet bird,

Bb
Nightingale, blackbird,

F                Eb
How is it you sing?

Dm
Whence comes this melody

E
Constantly flowing?

Am              E
Is it rejoicing or merely halloing?

Am
Are you discussing or fussing

Ab
Or simply dreaming?

Am            Am - G - F#
Are you crowing?

F
Are you screaming?

Bb
Ringdove and robinet,

Dm          Eb
Is it for wages,

F                Eb
Singing to be sold?

Bb
Have you decided it's

F
Safer in cages,

Bb
Singing when you're told?

F
My cage has many rooms,

Bb
Damask and dark.

F                 Eb
Nothing there sings,

Dm
Not even my lark.

Dm
Larks never will, you know,

E
When they're captive.

Am              E
Teach me to be more adaptive.

Am
Green finch and linnet bird,

Ab
Nightingale, blackbird,

Am              Am - G - F#
Teach me how to sing.

F
If I cannot fly,

Bb
Let me sing.