Wild Birds chords by Gordon Bok

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: C

Verse 1:
  C                    Dm
Lights flicker on in a town 'neath the mountain
        F                             G
where night first comes down, like a patch of black satin.
         C                           Dm
And the road seems too long between Casper and Jackson
             F                   G
when you're tired of traveling alone.


Chorus:
  F                          C
Blackthorne and Cottonwood drink up the Muddy.
      G                          C                       C7
Just buckwheat and sky between Cheyenne and Cody.
        F         Dm          C               Am
Like a maple wing sown under red leaves blown down
      G                     C
it's time to be going back home.

Verse 2:
    C                          Dm
I crossed the Wind River on my way to Big Timber.
 F                        G
People were friendly. The aspen was amber.
       C                      Dm
Folks sang all the choruses they could remember.
        F                   G
And I slept in a room of my own.


Chorus:
  F                          C
Blackthorne and Cottonwood drink up the Muddy.
      G                          C                       C7
Just buckwheat and sky between Cheyenne and Cody.
        F         Dm          C               Am
Like a maple wing sown under red leaves blown down
      G                     C
it's time to be going back home.


Verse 3:
    C                         Dm
And all by the road-side the wild birds fly
F                         G
up out of the thistle and into the sky.
 C                               Dm
Red birds    Black birds    They sing as they fly.
  F                        G
Thank heaven for the wild birds!


Chorus 2:
               F                         C
They're all dressed up in feathers with colors outrageous!
      G                            C          C7
They soar from this earthly bound kingdom of cages
    F       Dm          C          Am
on delicate wings. So small and courageous.
          G                     C
And it's time to be going back home.


Verse 4:
         C                      Dm
You can see the rain coming for miles down the prarie.
         F                     G
Like a great herd of antelope running like fury!
          C                 Dm
You can stop at a diner outside Canyon Ferry
     F                          G
for coffee and a sense for the town.


Chorus:
  F                          C
Blackthorne and Cottonwood drink up the Muddy.
      G                          C                       C7
Just buckwheat and sky between Cheyenne and Cody.
        F         Dm          C               Am
Like a maple wing sown under red leaves blown down
      G                     C
it's time to be going back home.