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transcription from jonimitchell.com Sweet BirdGuitar chords transcribed by Marian Russell Tuning: CGDGBD "Joni" Tuning: C77543 |
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Note: Between a lot of the chords there are places where you make an
up-strum and use 000000. I didn't write them all in. Listen to Joni play
the song and try to get a feel for them.
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Intro:
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444200 442000 444200 442000
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444200 442000 444200 442000
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1st verse:
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000000 055550 444000
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Out on some border - line some
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0 10 10 10 10 0 000000 00 10 980 000000
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Mark of in be - tween I lay down
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444000 033333 000000 002010
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Golden in time and woke up vanishing
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770000 550000 220000
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222222 000000 055555 000000
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Sweet bird you are
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002010 000200 000000
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Briefer than a fal - ling star
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002010 000200 000000
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All these vain promises on beauty jars, oh
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Somewhere with your wings on time
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00 10 980
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You must be laughing
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222222 000000 055555 000000
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Behind our eyes
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002010 000200 000000
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Calendars of our lives
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002010 000200 000000
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Circled with comprimise, oh
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Sweet bird of time and change
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00 10 980
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You must be laughing
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0 10 10 10 10 0
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Up on your feathers
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00 10 980
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laughing
Repeat Intro
2nd verse:
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000000 055550 442000
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Golden in time
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0 10 10 10 10 0 000000 00 10 980 000000
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Cities under the sand Power ideals and
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444000 033333 000000 002010
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beauty fading in everyone's
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770000 550000 220000
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hands
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222222 000000 055555 000000
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Give me some time
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002010 000200 000000
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I feel like I'm losing mine
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002010 000200 000000
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Out here on this horizen line with the
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Earth spinning and the sky
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00 10 980
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forever rushing
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222222 000000 055555 000000
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No one knows
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002010 000200 000000
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They can never get that close
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002010 000200 000000
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Guesses at most
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0 10 10 10 10 0
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Guesses based on what each set of time
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00 10 980
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and change is touching
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0 10 10 10 10 0
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Guesses based on what each set of time
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00 10 980
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and change is touching
[Repeat: "guesses based on ....is touching", as shown above]
[Last one:]
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444200
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Guesses based on what each set of time
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442000
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and change is touching
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444200 442000
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[Repeat the above chords and fade out]
© 1975 Crazy Crow Music BMI
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