Miss Bottom Of The Hill chords by Iron & Wine

Chords with lyrics

Intro: D MajorD G+G D MajorD B minorBm G+G A augmentedA (x2)


Verse 1:
     D MajorD
So Miss Bottom of the Hill what do you want?
      G+G
The sun is shinin' and your lovers always lose you in the dark
                       B minorBm
And they were all chosen to remember how the sparrows hit the window
     G+G                A augmentedA
That you closed to keep the cat out in the yard

       D MajorD
And like your body bein' dragged behind the moon

You bring a memory of your mother like the money in your shoe
                  B minorBm
And how her penetratin' wisdom, her bulletproof religion
    G+G                A augmentedA
Always rip you like a wool off of the loom

   D MajorD
You floated farther than you ever meant to go

And only now see you are naked when the wind began to blow

There's no advice that you've been missin'
  B minorBm
No trespass unforgiven
    G+G              A augmentedA
Just a river with no pity for your boat

       G+G                A augmentedA
I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin'
   D MajorD                B minorBm
The dogs were loose and lyin' on the street
         G+G
You've learned to blend into the choir
    A augmentedA
How to hold your hand in fire
   D MajorD     A augmentedA          B minorBm
And what to say instead of what you mean
          G+G               A augmentedA
But the trouble it saves for just how hard it can be


Verse 2:
      D MajorD
You met the women gluin' jewels onto a crown
       G+G
You know men hidin' in the city and their way of bein' found
       D MajorD
And you got nothin' on your shoulders
       B minorBm
Still there's nothin' too much colder
    G+G                A augmentedA
Than a rubble of a house that's fallin' down

    D MajorD
Like a baby cryin 'til it fal ls asleep
       G+G
The autumn's over by the time you count the color of the leaves
        G+G
You're paintin' buzzards on the ceilin'
     B minorBm
Fallin' faithless at the healin'
     G+G                  A augmentedA
With your friends around you wailin on their knees

     G+G                     A augmentedA
And I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin'
  D MajorD         A augmentedA       B minorBm
The fog had swallowed everything but us
         G+G
You've learned to balance on the cable
     A augmentedA
Drink us all under the table
   D MajorD     A augmentedA         B minorBm
And who to try instead of who you trust
          G+G               A augmentedA
With a hand on your heart that threw you under the bus


Verse 3:
    D MajorD
So Miss Bottom of the Hill, what do you want?
      G+G
The sun is shinin' and you cleaned your pretty pistol of a heart
   D MajorD
But when you talk about tomorrow
   B minorBm
When to beg and when to borrow
      G+G                 A augmentedA
Is how to hit the ground before you hear the shot

      D MajorD
And like a fish too deep and driftin' in the sea
      G+G
You've grown accustomed to the blindness lookin' up and anxiously
       D MajorD                   B minorBm
But there's a stone inside your pocket while you're plowin' through the market
     G+G                 A augmentedA
But you know even the time it takes ain't free


   G+G                     A augmentedA
I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin'
  D MajorD         A augmentedA       B minorBm
The stars were barely hangin' in the sky
          G+G
You've learned to eat when you're not hungry
    A augmentedA
How to laugh when nothin's funny
   D MajorD      A augmentedA         B minorBm
And what to get instead of gettin' by
        G+G              A augmentedA
But oh, how it changes with the passin' of time


Verse 4:
       D MajorD
You heard so many voices hidden in the wind
      G+G
See all the children of the world and how its fingers reach for them
       D MajorD
Two branches tired of their bendin'
     B minorBm
I don't see our story endin'
     G+G            A augmentedA
Quite as clean as it was easy to begin

    D MajorD
Like a hole that let the fox under the fence
        G+G
You've got no solace and no sanctuary you can recommend
      D MajorD
Beggin' for mercy at the bedside
    B minorBm
We got frozen in the headlights
    G+G               A augmentedA
But our kind of mercy never made much sense


      G+G              A augmentedA
I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin'
   D MajorD     A augmentedA          B minorBm
But both were disappearin' in the waves
         G+G
You've learned to lead the one you follow
    A augmentedA
How to spit out what you swallow
  D MajorD       A augmentedA       B minorBm
And when to hand instead of give away
        G+G              F minorFm   A augmentedA
That secret of ours is one I'll take to the grave

BB

Verse 5:
    E MajorE
So Miss Bottom of the Hill what do you want?
      A augmentedA
The sun is shinin' and I think you want me more often than not
       E MajorE
But like your father in the garden
     C# minorC#m
I won't finish what I started
     A augmentedA             BB
'Til you bill me for the flowers I forgot

      E MajorE
And like a curse too old for anyone to care
      A augmentedA
You said to meet you on the mountain cause you never make it there
        E MajorE
And sucked your thumb along the highway
     C# minorC#m
Proudly promisin' that one day
  A augmentedA                 BB
I'd miss the way we tumbled down the stairs


         A augmentedA                BB
And I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin'
  E MajorE        C# minorC#m
The car was gently glidin' off the road
         A augmentedA
You've learned to rise above your body
    BB
How to never say you're sorry
  E MajorE              C# minorC#m
And where to go instead of going home
           A augmentedA                 BB        E MajorE
With th e light by the bed and all the clothes you've outgrown

A augmentedA E MajorE C# minorC#m A augmentedA BB E MajorE