Singing Blackbird chords by Adam Newling

🎸 Intro:

C  Cadd11 C

Cadd11  C

Am  G  C Cadd11 C

Cadd11  C



🎸 Verse 1:
    C                        Cadd11 C
If you were a river you’d run like hell
   C                           Am          G
I whisper you my secret and I know you’ll never tell
      C                       Cadd11  C
Your safe like a house with no front door
    C                     G             C
I open up a window and I only feel the cold
     C                      Cadd11 C
Yes I saw the cover of a big old book
C                            Am            G
over in the corner where you never pick it up
 C                    Cadd11   C
Red wine ran in your mothers blood
 C                                G              C
how you gonna show my that she taught you bout love

🎸 Chorus:
     F
And I’ve been chasing
 C           G
all things backwards
 F                Em       G
I’ve been making more bad habits
   F                      Am      G
I can’t keep meeting you here in silence
    F
If we go right now they’re
Em        G
singing blackbird

🎸 Interlude:
C  Cadd11 C

Cadd11  C

Am  G  C Cadd11 C

Cadd11  C

🎸 Verse 2:
   C                 Cadd11       C
If I was a tiger I’d change my stripes
Cadd11           C           Am               G
leave em at the door and I’d run off in the night
C                      Cadd11    C
Bury all my money in my own backyard
Cadd11           C            G      C
next to our old dog and the agapanthus
C                     Cadd11     C
I saw it coming like a big old train
Cadd11            C           Am               G
coming off it’s tracks and I know who I could blame
            C                       Cadd11   C
It’s that black smoke heavy in your mothers lungs
Cadd11          C               G             C
how you gonna show me that she told you bout love

🎸 Chorus:
     F
And I’ve been chasing
 C           G
all things backwards
 F                Em       G
I’ve been making more bad habits
   F                      Am      G
I can’t keep meeting you here in silence
    F
If we go right now they’re
Em        G
singing blackbird

🎸 Interlude:
C  Cadd11  C

C  Cadd11  C

C  Cadd11  C

F  C  G  F  Em  G


🎸 Chorus:
     F
And I’ve been chasing
 C           G
all things backwards
 F                Em       G
I’ve been making more bad habits
F                      Am      G
I can’t keep meeting you here in silence
    F
If we go right now they’re
Em        G
singing blackbird
     F
And I’ve been chasing
 C           G
all things backwards
 F                Em       G
I’ve been making more bad habits
   F                      Am      G
I can’t keep meeting you here in silence
    F
If we go right now they’re
Em        G
singing blackbird
     F
And I’ve been chasing
 C           G
all things backwards
 F                Em       G
I’ve been making more bad habits
   F                      Am      G
I can’t keep meeting you here in silence
    F
If we go right now they’re
Em        G       C
singing blackbird