Baby Birch chords by Joanna Newsom

Chords with lyrics

BABY BIRCH
CAPO 2

  C majorC        FF
this is the song for Baby Birch
    A minorAm     FF     C majorC
though i will never know you
  C majorC        FF
and at the back of what we've done
   A minorAm        FF    C majorC
there is the knowledge of you

     C majorC         FF
well, i wish we could take every path
       A minorAm      FF     C majorC
could spend a hundred years adoring you
   C majorC           FF
yes, i wish we could take every path
     A minorAm         FF     C majorC
because i hated to close the door on you

    C majorC        FF
do you remember staring up at the stars
  A minorAm        FF      C majorC
so far away in their bulletproof cars?
    C majorC         FF
when we heard the rushing, slow intake
    A minorAm           FF   C majorC
of the dark, dark water in the engine brakes?

     C majorC                FF
and i said to you, "well, how about them engine brakes?"
   A minorAm       FF   C majorC
and if i should die before i wake,
     C majorC       FF
Will you keep an eye on Baby Birch?
      A minorAm              FF   C majorC
because i'd hate to see her make the same mistake

      Asus4Asus4         C majorC
when it was dark, i called and you came
      Asus4Asus4    C majorC
when it was dark, i saw shapes
       Asus4Asus4       C majorC
when I see stars, i feel in your hand
     Asus4Asus4       C majorC
and I see stars, and I reel again.


   C majorC        FF
Well mercy me. I'll be goddamned.
       A minorAm
It's been a long, long time
FF      C majorC
since I last saw you.
   C majorC      FF
And I have never known the plan.
      A minorAm
It's been a long, long time.
FF    C majorC
How are you?
   C majorC          FF
Your eyes are green. Your hair is gold.
   A minorAm       FF      C majorC
Your hair is black. Your eyes are blue.
  C majorC           FF
I closed the ranks, and I doubled back—
         A minorAm
but, you know, I hated to close
 FF      C majorC
the door on you.

     Asus4Asus4        C majorC
We take a walk along the dirty lake.
Hear the goose,
Asus4Asus4          C majorC
cussing at me over her eggs.
        Asus4Asus4
You poor little cousin.
         C majorC
I don't want your dregs
        Asus4Asus4        C majorC
(A augmentedA little baby fussing all over my legs).

       A minorAm
There is a blacksmith,
and there is a shepherd,
and there is a butcher-boy,
        C majorC
and there is a barber, who's cutting
and cutting away at my only joy.
    A minorAm
I saw a rabbit,
as slick as a knife,
and as pale as a candlestick,
      C majorC
and I had thought it'd be harder to do,
but I caught her, and skinned her quick:
held her there,
A minorAm
kicking and mewling,
upended, unspooling, unsung and blue;
     C majorC
told her "wherever you go,
little runaway bunny,
I will find you."
       A minorAm
And then she ran,
           C majorC
as they're liable to do.

       Asus4Asus4   C majorC
Be at peace, baby, and begone.

Asus4, C majorC to fade