Dragonflies chords by Eddi Reader

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: G

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
G Gmaj7 Em G D
D Am D Am G

Verse:
  G             GMaj7  Em        G
A lost summer's day, a lifetime away
D
What do you find
D            Am        D            Am
Slow turning sun, with somewhere to run
G

On your mind
G
Not the flash that you saw
                     C
That was gone in the wink of an eye
   D                                      G
As soon as we're here, we disappear, like dragonflies.  (pause)

Verse:
      G       GMaj7    Em         G
Their miracle blue can never tell you
    D
How it came to be
D              Am    D          Am
Each different kind, accidental designed
G              G
Before you and me
       G
And we ask the whole of our lives
      C
maybe there's no why
   D             Am    D       Am         G
As soon as we're here, we disappear, like dragonflies.

Chorus:
        C                             G
How can something so fragile leave us helpless
            D                  G      G7
We all feel helpless once in a while
        C                             G
How can something so fragile leave us humble
            F#m              D Am D
We all need humble once in a while.


Verse:
        G          GMaj7     Em        G
And now nature can sing such beautiful wings
D
Did you think of this
D               Am          D              Am
That each of us know in our hearts we must go
G
And that's what beauty is
    G                                              C
And just as the dream you were in dissolved in the morning sky
   D             Am    D                  G
As soon as we're here, we disappear, like dragonflies.

Break:
G  GMaj7 Em G D
D Am D Am G
G C
D Am D Am G

Chorus:
        C                             G
How can something so fragile leave us helpless
            D                  G     G7
We all feel helpless once in a while
        C                             G
How can something so fragile leave us humble
            Am               D Am D
We all need humble once in a while.

Verse:
        G          Gmaj7     Em        G
And now nature can sing such beautiful wings
D
Did you think of this
                Am          D              Am
That each of us know in our hearts we must go
G
And that's what beauty is
    G                                              C
And just as the dream you were in dissolved in the morning sky
D                Am    Bm       D         G
As soon as we're here, we disappear, like dragonflies
D                Am    D       Am         G
As soon as we're here, we disappear, like dragonflies
D                Am    Bm       D         G
As soon as we're here, we disappear, like dragonflies