Hey Little Songbird chords by Anais Mitchell

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Cm

Difficulty: Novice

Verse:
(HADES)
Cm          G#       Gm       Cm
Hey little songbird give me a song
Cm         G#         Bb         G
I'm a busy man and I can't stay long
      Cm          G#         Eb         A7
I got clients to call I got orders to fill
       Cm       G#          Eb        G
I got walls to build I got riots to quell
            Cm         G#           G
And they're giving me hell back in Hades

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

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

Verse:
(HADES)
  Cm            G#          Gm             Cm
(..Hey) little songbird you got something fine
       Cm           G#      Bb          G
You'd shine like a diamond down in the mine
         Cm        G#              Eb          A7
And the choice is yours if you're willing to choose
Cm      G#            Eb          G
Seeing as you've got nothing to lose
    Cm      G#     G
And I could use a canary

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

Verse:
(HADES)
Cm          G#      Gm      Cm
Hey little songbird let me guess
      Cm           G#            Bb   G
He's some kind of poet and he's penniless

Cm             G#         Eb            A7
Give him your hand he'll give you his hand-to-mouth
       Cm          G#            Eb       G
He'll write you a poem when the power's out
    Cm           G#            G
Hey why not fly south for the winter

Cm          G#       Gm       Cm
Hey little songbird look all around you
Cm           G#         Bb          G
See how the vipers and vultures surround you
Cm                G#           Eb        A7
They'll take you down they'll pick you clean
   Cm          G#           Eb          G
If you stick around such a desperate scene
     Cm         G#            G         N.C.
See people get mean when the chips are down