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Field Guide For The Butterflies by Kevin Morby

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Intro:

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Verse:
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 The paint's stained on the Econoline
        C                       F
From the black blood of the butterflies
F                    G
 Who were fluttering side by side
       C                   F
When we smashed their wings, smashed their lives
F                 G    C                      F
 Now the rosary swings. from the porch of the double wide
F                   G   C                   F
 Strapped to the flatbed, oversized, out on 49
F  G  C  F
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Verse:
F                  G   C               F
 Plastic flowers line   this highway I ride
F                       G                C         F
 They don't smell like anything, but they never rot, never die
F                  G        C                  F
 Illuminating the shoulders, carry inside the lines
F                   G       C                F
 Say a prayer every morning, then again at night

Chorus:
F             G     C                   F
 Mama, I got dreams, and I'd give anything
F                    G    C                 F
 For you to watch me dance or listen to me sing
F                G            C            F
 In a world that kills, oh, I cannot sit still
F             G        C             F
 Is it suicide if I die out chasing thrills?
F          G             C    F  G  C  F
 Just me trying to grow wings.
F  G  C  F

Verse:
F                  G      C                 F
 In the morning I wake up, in the morning I rise
F               G    C              F
 Putting on my makeup, powdering my eyes
F                  G    C               F
 And I may write a poem, I may make it rhyme
Dm                   G                C       F
 Where there are my friends, there are happy times
Dm                  G              C        F
 Where there is the wind, there are happy chimes
Dm               G   C                  F
 Where I meet my end, there I'll lay my life
Dm             G            C              F
 Can't be too brave out here beneath the sky
F                   G       C              F
 Say a prayer every morning, then again at night

[Instrumental]
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Chorus:
Dm             G     C                   F
 Mama, I got dreams, and I'd give anything
Dm                    G    C                 F
 For you to watch me dance or listen to me sing
Dm                G            C            F
 In a world that kills, oh, I cannot sit still
Dm             G        C             F
 Is it suicide if I die out chasing thrills?
F          G             C
 Just me trying to grow wings

[Tag]
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Field guide for the butterflies
F        G              C
 Just me trying to grow wings
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Field guide for the butterflies
F         G             C
 Just me trying to grow wings
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Field guide for the butterflies
F        G               C
 Just me trying to grow wings