Rookery chords by Ben Howard

• Capo on 8th
• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Verse 1:

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


🎸 Verse 2:

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

🎸 Verse 3:

 G             Am
So hey, that's me
C                                G6
Shooting at a hundred-year-old rookery
G           Am
Oh, look at me
Fmaj7         G/C       F
The definition of futility
F
That's what they'll say anyway
F
Won't they, babe?

🎸 Verse 4:

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

🎸 Outro:

F            G          C               Am
Unknowing am I of the wind that took my eye
C            G          C
Unknowing am I of the wind