So Says The Whippoorwill chords by Richard Shindell

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Richard Shindell - So Says The Whippoorwill




CAPO: 2nd Fret


INTRO: C majorC FF C majorC FF G+G C majorC FF C majorC FF

  C majorC        FF     C majorC  FF
The change could happen any day
    G+G        C majorC
So says the whippoorwill
          FF      C majorC
It hangs 'round for the seeds I leave
  FF DmDm     G+G   FF
Out on the windowsill
       C majorC    DmDm      C majorC
"Be-free-you-fool, be-free-you-fool"
  FF   ~  DmDm    G+G  C majorC
She sings all afternoon
            FF    C majorC   FF
Then, as if to show me how it's done
     G+G    C majorC   FF C majorC FF
She leaps into the blue

    C majorC        FF    C majorC  FF
And the change could happen any day
    G+G    C majorC
So say all the guards
           FF   C majorC   FF
In the prison I have built around
~  DmDm   G+G    FF
My solitary heart
     C majorC     DmDm  C majorC
I tell myself that I'm alright
     FF  ~ DmDm     G+G  C majorC
That it's not so bad a place
              FF     C majorC   FF
The truth is, that I'm just scared to death
      G+G      C majorC   FF C majorC FF
Of walking through that gate


    C majorC        FF    C majorC  FF
And the change could happen any day
    G+G       C majorC
So say my true love's eyes
       FF    C majorC
They see into my shadows
      FF ~ DmDm      G+G    FF
With their swe-et, forgiving light
        C majorC      DmDm    C majorC
She smiles and says, "Come on, let's go
   FF ~ DmDm     G+G    C majorC
Let's stroll the boulevard.
         FF       C majorC
It's such a shame to waste the night
FF      G+G   C majorC
Just sitting in the dark"

INSTRUMENTAL: C majorC  FF C majorC DmDm C majorC FF ~ DmDm G+G  C majorC G+G FF C majorC FF G+G C majorC


            FF    C majorC  FF
And the change could happen any day
    G+G     C majorC
Or so says Father Brown
         FF      C majorC
I listen for that still small voice
   FF  ~   DmDm   G+G   FF
But I just can't make it out
      C majorC    DmDm   C majorC
Beneath the constant whispering
    FF ~  DmDm  C majorC G+G
Of the devil that I know
  C majorC      G+G   FF  C majorC
But who would I be, if I believed?
  FF   G+G  C majorC
Who am I, if I don't?


              FF  C majorC  FF
And the change could happen any day
   G+G       C majorC
So said the mountaineer
          FF    C majorC
Before he turned to face his cliff
  FF ~ DmDm      G+G
With----out a trace of fear
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Yodel-ay-he-oh, yodel-ay-he-hoo
  FF  ~   DmDm C majorC G+G
He sang right up until
  C majorC      G+G    FF  C majorC
He caught sight of that open blue
   FF G+G      C majorC
And became a whippoorwill
  C majorC      G+G    FF  C majorC
He caught sight of that open blue
   FF G+G      C majorC