Sufjan Stevens – Fourth Of July (Ukulele)

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[Intro] Am G F x3 [Verse 1]
    Dm        G           C        G
The evil it spread like a fever ahead

        F             G          F
It was night when you died, my firefly

 Dm               G          C               G
What could I have said to raise you from the dead?

         F         G                   F
Oh could I be the sky on the Fourth of July?
[Chorus]
          G         C
Well you do enough talk

G          C      G         F
My little hawk, why do you cry?

         G            C             G          C
Tell me what did you learn from the Tillamook burn?

        G         F
Or the Fourth of July?

                  Am G C G F
We’re all gonna die
[Verse 2]
 Dm             G            C            G
Sitting at the bed with the halo at your head

        F        G                  F
Was it all a disguise, like Junior High

 Dm                   G        C            G
Where everything was fiction, future, and prediction

 F            G               F
Now, where am I? My fading supply
[Chorus]
         G          C    G          C
Did you get enough love, my little dove

 G          F
Why do you cry?

         G       C            G           C
And I’m sorry I left, but it was for the best

           G          F
Though it never felt right

                    Am G C G F
My little Versailles
[Verse 3]
     Dm       G               C        G
The hospital asked should the body be cast

       F         G                   F
Before I say goodbye, my star in the sky

Dm           G          C              G
Such a funny thought to wrap you up in cloth

       F           G               F
Do you find it all right, my dragonfly?
[Chorus]
          G          C
Shall we look at the moon

G         C
My little loon

G          F
Why do you cry?

         G            C     G           C
Make the most of your life, while it is rife

G           F
While it is light

         G         C
Well you do enough talk

G         C      G         F
My little hawk, why do you cry?

        G            C              G         C
Tell me what did you learn from the Tillamook burn?

       G         F
Or the Fourth of July?

                   Am G C G F
We’re all gonna die