Chords with lyrics
Key: A augmentedA
Standard tuning
This is the Western AF version
Verse 1:
G+G
How do you do Dr. Bird
E minorEm
I hear you know the magic word
A7A7
However low spirits go
D MajorD
You're bound to lift em up
Verse 2:
G+G
Well for me everything's been going great
E minorEm
I wake up early, stay up late
A7A7
I've got drugs to help me concentrate
D MajorD
And booze to put me down
Verse 3:
G+G
In the desert's all the bloom out here, you know
E minorEm
I don't have a single fear
A7A7
When I go walking year to year
D MajorD D7D7
And my smile can be found
Chorus:
C majorC G+G
But darling please, get out of my dreams
D MajorD D7D7 G+G G7G7
The ideal distance from you is not at all
C majorC
You can come to me in poetry
G+G
You can talk to me in song
D MajorD G+G G7G7
Expect seeing whiskey and the shadows long
C majorC
But I need some shut-eye baby
G+G
I wanna get out of town
D MajorD D7D7 G+G G7G7
I'd like you plainly in my sight or out of mind
Bridge:
G+G
Said the little mockingbird
E minorEm A7A7
I wonder if you heard it sing a word
D MajorD
I try to sing it for you everywhere I know
G+G
That everything is blessed and fine
E minorEm
And you got nothing if not time
A7A7 D MajorD D7D7
To wander and to ponder all the wonders of the world
Chorus:
C majorC G+G
In the meantime please, get out of my dreams
D MajorD D7D7 G+G G7G7
The ideal distance from you is not at all
C majorC
You can come to me in poetry
G+G
You can talk to me in song
D MajorD G+G G7G7
Expect seeing whiskey and the shadows long
C majorC
But I need some shut-eye baby
G+G
I wanna get out of town
D MajorD D7D7 G+G G7G7
I'd like you plainly in my sight or out of mind
C majorC
I need some shut-eye baby
G+G
I wanna swing out of town
D MajorD D7D7 G+G G7G7
I'd like you plainly in my sight or out of mind
D MajorD D7D7 G+G
I need you straight up in my sight or out of mind