Chords with lyrics
Key: AbAb
Tuning: Standard
🎸 Intro:
N.C.
Three white butterflies to
D MajorD
know you're near
🎸 Verse :
D MajorD
I know they think that it
took somebody else
A minorAm
To make me beautiful, beautiful
G+G
As they intended me to be
D MajorD
But they're wrong
D MajorD
I know they think that
it took thousands of people
A minorAm
To put me together again
like an experiment
G+G
Some big men behind the scenes
Sewing Frankenstein
D MajorD
black dreams into my songs
D MajorD
But they're wrong
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC
God, if you'rе near me
G+G
send mе three white butterflies
D MajorD
Or an owl to know know you're listening,
sitting while I'm drinking
C majorC
Grandfather, please stand on the
G+G
shoulders of my father
D MajorD
While he's deep-sea fishing for sharks
in the Pacific
🎸 Bridge:
C majorC
'Cause I'm good in spirit, warm-bodied
G+G D MajorD
A augmentedA fallible deity wrapped up in white
(Oh-oh)
C majorC
I'm folk
I'm jazz
I'm blue
I'm green
G+G D MajorD
Regrettably, also a white woman
(Oh-oh)
C majorC G+G
But I have good intentions even if
D MajorD
I'm one of the last ones
C majorC
If you don't believe me, my poetry
G+G
or my melodies
D MajorD
Feel it in your bones
C majorC G+G
I have good intentions, even if
D MajorD
I'm one of the last ones
C majorC G+G
(Ah-ah-ah, yeah, ah-ah-ah, yeah
D MajorD
ah-ah-ah, yeah, mm)
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC
Grandfather, please stand on
G+G
the shoulders of my father
D MajorD
While he's deep-sea fishing for
all the things he's wishing
C majorC
God, if you're near me
G+G
send me three white butterflies
D MajorD
Or a map to know you're fishing,
impart on me Your wisdom
🎸 Post-Chorus:
G+G
It took somebody else to
Am7Am7
make me beautiful, wonderful
G+G
As they intended me to be
D MajorD
But they're wrong
D MajorD D A minorAm Am
G+G G MajorG D MajorD D MajorD
🎸 Outro:
D MajorD
Three white butterflies to
know you're near
Chords used in song:
D MajorD
A minorAm
G+G
C majorC
Am7Am7