Butchered Tongue chords by Hozier

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: B minorBm

🎸 Intro:
B minorBm D MajorD Gmaj7Gmaj7


🎸 Verse 1:
   B minorBm        D MajorD
As a child it was the place names
    Gmaj7Gmaj7
Singin' at me as the first thing
    B minorBm       A augmentedA        F# minorF#m
How the mouth must be employed in every corner of itself
    G+G   D MajorD                Gmaj7Gmaj7
To say "Appalacicola" or "Hushpukena", like "Gweebarra"
 E minorEm       A augmentedA         D MajorD
A augmentedA promise softly sung of somewhere else

🎸 Chorus:
     G+G                   B minorBm
And as a young man blessed to pass so many road signs
      G+G              A augmentedA         F# minorF#m
And have my foreign ear made fresh again on each unlikely sound
      G+G        D MajorD     B minorBm       F# minorF#m
But feel at home, hearin' a music that few still understand
      E minorEm          A augmentedA           D MajorD
A augmentedA butchered tongue still singin' here above the ground


🎸 Verse 2:
  B minorBm           D MajorD        G+G
The ears were chopped from young men if the pitch cap didn't kill them
     B minorBm       A augmentedA           F# minorF#m
They are buried without scalp in the shattered bedrock of our home
    G+G        D MajorD
You may never know your fortune
     G+G         E minorEm          A augmentedA
Until the distance has been shown between what is lost forever
           D MajorD
And what can still be known


🎸 Chorus:
      G+G                 B minorBm
So far from home to have a stranger call you, "Darling"
       G+G               A augmentedA        F# minorF#m
And have your guarded heart be lifted like a child up by the hand
     G+G          D MajorD
In some town that just means 'Home' to them
       B minorBm      F# minorF#m
With no translator left to sound
      E minorEm          A augmentedA       D MajorD
A augmentedA butchered tongue still singin' here above the ground

B minorBm D MajorD Gmaj7Gmaj7 F# minorF#m
B minorBm D MajorD Gmaj7Gmaj7 B minorBm