Rookery chords by Ben Howard

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 8th
• Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

🎸 Verse 1:

C majorC     C/DC/D     A minorAm       C/DC/D     C majorC
Birch tree lost its branch one day in violent winter
C majorC       C/DC/D          A minorAm     C majorC
I said it was grieving, you said it don't feel nothing
 FF      G+G     C majorC           A minorAm
I bet you think everything's in its rightful place
  C majorC       G+G     C majorC
That sentiment is man's disgrace


🎸 Verse 2:

C majorC     C/DC/D      A minorAm    C/DC/D      C majorC
Well the rooks in the trees, they don't half bother me
FF       G/C      G+G    C majorC
Clawing at my mind with every given opportunity
FF       G+G     C majorC   A minorAm       C majorC    G/C    A minorAm
It's spring outside, a perilous sky and that terrible clattering sound
C majorC           G+G      A minorAm
"Go ahead, you should go shoot them down"
A minorAm            G+G            FF
That's what you said, "you should go shoot them down"

🎸 Verse 3:

 G+G       A minorAm
So hey, that's me
C majorC                G6G6
Shooting at a hundred-year-old rookery
G+G      A minorAm
Oh, look at me
Fmaj7Fmaj7     G/C    FF
The definition of futility
FF
That's what they'll say anyway
FF
Won't they, babe?

🎸 Verse 4:

C majorC     C/DC/D    A minorAm         C majorC   C/DC/D      C majorC
So I'll go back to working through the gentle hours of the evening
C majorC       FF      A minorAm      G/C        C majorC
Where the weather and the wine and the company treat me easily
FF      G+G     C majorC        A minorAm
Unknowing am I of the wind that took my eye
FF      G/C    C majorC
Unknowing am I of the wind

🎸 Outro:

FF      G+G     C majorC        A minorAm
Unknowing am I of the wind that took my eye
C majorC      G+G     C majorC
Unknowing am I of the wind

Other versions of Rookery

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