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