Chords with lyrics
Verse 1:
G+G C majorC
If I was a crow I'd fly the roads that wind between these places
G+G C majorC
Over back lanes and weathervanes where creeks have left their traces
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD C majorC
Fruit trees planted long ago still bloom every other season
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD
The fence won't keep the rabbits out, the gate's always open for some damn reason
G+G C majorC G+G C majorC
G+G C majorC
Follow and trace the coastline to the place that's worn and storied
G+G C majorC
At the end of their chain the great lakes drain into the old St. Laurence
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD C majorC
Oh we've held a party or two, slept a million dreamers
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD G+G
Who owed to find the coffee on, though the smoke is gone, the poetry lingers
Chorus:
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD G+G
If you're too tucked away, and you can't see the sun
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD E minorEm
If you've something to say, but you ain't got no one
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD C majorC
Whatever you do, if you have to, oh use your thumb, just get here, just come
Verse 2:
G+G C majorC
If you come out at night you'll see the light of where to make the turnoff
G+G C majorC
But do call ahead, we might be in bed writing with our clothes off
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD C majorC
Writing on the wallpaper, writing on the wall
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD G+G
The poets die, a lullaby still whispers faintly in the room
Chorus:
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD G+G
If you're too tucked away, and you can't see the sun
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD E minorEm
If you've something to say, but you ain't got no one
D MajorD G+G D MajorD C majorC
Whatever you do, if you have to, oh use your thumb, just get here, just come
Bridge:
A minorAm D MajorD A minorAm
If you're too tucked away, and you can't see the sun
D MajorD A minorAm
If you've something to say, but you ain't got no one
D MajorD C majorC
If your hands are getting cold, you don't know what you've become
Verse 3:
G+G C majorC
If I was a crow I'd fly the roads that wind between these places
G+G C majorC
Where poems were read and hungers fed and heatrs were warm and gracious
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD C majorC
Did we keep a geust book somwhere or are the records fading?
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD G+G
We'll make a vow to start one now, there is still time, but it's not waiting