Ray LaMontagne – Winter Birds (Guitar Tab)

Drop D (D-A-D-G-B-E)

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                 It's the Widow    now that owns that angry plow,
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                 The Spartan Mule             and The Crippled Cow.
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                 The fal      low      field that will yield      no more.
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                as the fox  lay sleeping 'neath her kitchen floor.
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D G The stream can't contain such the withering rain, C D From the pasture, the fence it is leaning away. G The clouds crack and growl like some great cat on the prowl. C D Crying out, "I am, I am" over and over again.

                The days grow short as the nights grow long.
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Dmaj7 Gm The kettle sings its tortured songs. Dmaj7 Gm A many petaled kiss I place upon her brow.

      Oh, my lady,                             lady I am loving you now.
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              The Winter Birds                 have come back    again.
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                 Here the sprightly chickadee, gone now is the Willow Wren.
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Gmaj7 C In passing, greet each other as if old, old friends. And to the voiceless Gmaj7 D trees, it is their own they will lend.

                The days grow short as the nights grow long.
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Dmaj7 Gm The kettle sings its tortured songs. Dmaj7 Gm A many petaled kiss I place upon her brow.

   Oh, my lady,                              lady I am loving you now.
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        all these                  things                        will
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          change,
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Gmaj7 D the memories will remain.

As green to gold              and gold                       to brown,
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A7 G D the leaves will fall to feed the ground. A7 G D And in their fall ing make no sound. C G C G5 D Oh, my la dy, lady I am loving you now.

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D Gmaj7 I've gathered all my money and I'm goin' to town C D to buy my lady a long and flowing gown. G 'Cause come tomorrow morning we're off to the county fair. C G D I'll find a yellow flower and I will lace it in her hair.

       Oh,       my la  dy,          lady I         am loving you now.
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