Hey Little Songbird chords by Anais Mitchell

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: C minorCm

Difficulty: Novice

Verse:
(HADES)
C minorCm     G#G#    G minorGm    C minorCm
Hey little songbird give me a song
C minorCm     G#G#     Bb majorBb     G+G
I'm a busy man and I can't stay long
   C minorCm     G#G#     Eb MajorEb     A7A7
I got clients to call I got orders to fill
    C minorCm    G#G#     Eb MajorEb    G+G
I got walls to build I got riots to quell
      C minorCm     G#G#      G+G
And they're giving me hell back in Hades

Verse:
C minorCm     G#G#    G minorGm      C minorCm
Hey little songbird cat got your tongue
C minorCm    G#G#       Bb majorBb     G+G
Always a pity for one so pretty and young
   C minorCm   G#G#    Eb MajorEb    G+G
When poverty comes to clip your wings
   C minorCm    G#G#    Eb MajorEb      G+G
And knock the wind right out of your lungs
   C minorCm   G#G#    G+G
Hey nobody sings on empty

Chorus:
(EURYDICE)
Eb MajorEb              Bb majorBb   Eb MajorEb
Strange is the call of this strange man
Eb MajorEb     C minorCm      C#C#     C minorCm
I want to fly down and feed at his hand
Eb MajorEb          Bb majorBb    G+G
I want a nice soft place to land
Eb MajorEb    G+G    C minorCm
I wanna lie down forever
          (hey..)

Verse:
(HADES)
 C minorCm      G#G#     G minorGm       C minorCm
(..Hey) little songbird you got something fine
    C minorCm      G#G#   Bb majorBb     G+G
You'd shine like a diamond down in the mine
     C minorCm    G#G#       Eb MajorEb     A7A7
And the choice is yours if you're willing to choose
C minorCm   G#G#      Eb MajorEb     G+G
Seeing as you've got nothing to lose
  C minorCm   G#G#   G+G
And I could use a canary

Chorus:
(EURYDICE)
Eb MajorEb          Bb majorBb   Eb MajorEb
Suddenly nothing is as it was
Eb MajorEb       C minorCm  C#C# C minorCm
Where are you now Orpheus
Eb MajorEb           Bb majorBb  G+G
Wasn't it always the two of us
Eb MajorEb      G+G     C minorCm
Weren't we birds of a feather

Verse:
(HADES)
C minorCm     G#G#   G minorGm   C minorCm
Hey little songbird let me guess
   C minorCm      G#G#      Bb majorBb  G+G
He's some kind of poet and he's penniless

C minorCm       G#G#     Eb MajorEb      A7A7
Give him your hand he'll give you his hand-to-mouth
    C minorCm     G#G#      Eb MajorEb    G+G
He'll write you a poem when the power's out
  C minorCm      G#G#      G+G
Hey why not fly south for the winter

C minorCm     G#G#    G minorGm    C minorCm
Hey little songbird look all around you
C minorCm      G#G#     Bb majorBb     G+G
See how the vipers and vultures surround you
C minorCm        G#G#      Eb MajorEb    A7A7
They'll take you down they'll pick you clean
  C minorCm     G#G#      Eb MajorEb     G+G
If you stick around such a desperate scene
   C minorCm     G#G#      G+G     N.C.
See people get mean when the chips are down

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