The Story Of The Raven And The Mushroom Man chords by Lisa Mitchell

Chords with lyrics

Lisa Mitchell- The Story of the Raven and the Mushroom Man
Album- Bless This Mess
Lyrics taken from Bless This Mess album booklet

Capo 2nd fret

* = single strum

[Intro]
G+G
D MajorD  C majorC  G+G
D MajorD  C majorC  C minorCm  G+G


[Verse 1]
C majorC
Late the other day when the earth turned away
 G+G
I found a little book, nearly blended in the grey
      D MajorD                 C majorC
But for its flower, drawn like a child on the cover!
      D MajorD
It was the story of the Raven and the Mushroom Man
      C majorC          C minorCm    G+G
He was the first real friend he ever had

[Verse 2]
        E minorEm          D MajorD
I never want to be like that serious man
           C majorC               C majorC
Telling himself be a serious! Always counting those numbers!
      D MajorD
He’s got a red face and a mushroom head
       C majorC        C minorCm    G+G
He spent too long in the rat race, too long in the dead days


[Interlude]
D MajorD  C majorC  C minorCm  G+G


[Verse 3]
     D MajorD         C majorC  C minorCm
If only a Raven, with a sore wing
         G+G            D MajorD
Could fall at his feet, with eyes full of mercy
                D MajorD
The little Mushroom Man might fashion, a little splint out of
C majorC
driftwood
                 G+G              D MajorD
And he might feel a little light shine, he might see his own kindness
           C*
And think that “Maybe counting isn’t everything!
                 Am*        D*
Maybe there are more Ravens that need me more than numbers?”

[Interlude]
D MajorD  C majorC  G+G


[Verse 4]
  C majorC
The Mushroom Man loved the Raven so
  G+G                      D MajorD   C majorC
And deep inside his heart, grew a thing called hope (hope)
  E minorEm
One Sunday night, the raven was weak
  G+G                   D MajorD
He didn’t wake up, how the Mushroom Man weeped!
            C majorC
It caused his planet to leak!


[Verse 5]
     C majorC
Well, he buried his friend, and he buried his books
  G+G
He looked out to space, and his head he shook
  D MajorD
As he looked down, gasp escaped!
 C majorC
A augmentedA sapling Rose grew from the Raven’s grave!


[Verse 6]
     C majorC
From the Raven’s grave, hope had sprung!
  G+G
And he knew then, how it had been done
  D MajorD
As he’d tended to the Raven’s wing
 C majorC
A augmentedA Seed of Hope had grown within!
  D MajorD
And now it grows for all to see,
    C majorC              G*
and his planet is no longer just he.


[Outro]
C majorC   G+G  (x4)