Village Song chords by Paris Paloma

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: C majorC

Verse 1:

A minorAm       C/GC/G        FF
  The farmer's wife cooks at the window
       G+G         C majorC
In that small cottage under the willow
     A minorAm           FF
Over the river, so freezing, so cold

FF

A minorAm        C/GC/G       FF
  In that white house up on the hill
           G+G
Where a man saw a way out
        C majorC
And took it he did
        A minorAm
A augmentedA family moved in
          FF
I don't think they know

FF

Chorus:

    FF              C majorC
And the blackberry juice drips like blood on the leaves
    A minorAm             G+G
And the blood on the fox drips like dew from its teeth
    FF              C majorC
And the dew in the field falls like petals, so sweet
    A minorAm            G+G
And the petals they fall and turn brown
   DmDm   Am/C
At my feet
C majorC          G/BG/B       DmDm   Am/C
 And the rhythms of autumn wash over me
C majorC          G+G


Verse 2:

A minorAm     C/GC/G          FF
  When I return from the city to home
       G+G
I pass by the churchyard
        C majorC
He's standing alone
       A minorAm          FF
That elderly man whose wife I did know

FF

A minorAm         C/GC/G            FF
  Her mother, grandmother, great-grandmother too
         G+G           C majorC
All sleep side by side beneath the green dew
       A minorAm               FF
That elderly man thinks that he'll join them soon

FF

Chorus:

    FF             C majorC
And the apples they fall like the shells from the guns
    A minorAm          G+G
And the shotgun it misses the hare when he runs
    FF               C majorC
And he moves like the wind with cold air in his lungs
    A minorAm             G+G
And his little warm heart beats in fear
    DmDm   Am/C
Like a drum

C majorC          G/BG/B

    FF             C majorC
And the night it draws in like the hand that will fall
     A minorAm             G+G
With its scythen black curtain make tombs of us all
    FF            C majorC
And the sun's little visits are starting to shorten
    A minorAm              G+G
And the village it lives through the rhythms of autumn

Bridge:

    FF             C majorC
And the creatures die at the hand of those who kill
    A minorAm            G+G
And the leaves will decay by the winters that chill
  FF             C majorC
And some will pass on by their own desperate will
   A minorAm             G+G
Just like that man in the white house on the hill


Chorus:

    FF              C majorC
And the blackberry juice drips like blood on the leaves
    A minorAm             G+G
And the blood on the fox drips like dew from its teeth
    FF              C majorC
And the dew in the field falls like petals, so sweet
    A minorAm            G+G
And the petals they fall and turn brown
   DmDm   Am/C
At my feet
C majorC          G/BG/B       DmDm   Am/C
 And the rhythms of autumn wash over me
C majorC          G+G       N.C.
 And the rhythms of autumn watch over me

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