The Bird Hunters chords by Turnpike Troubadours

"The Bird Hunters" by Turnpike Troubadours
From the album "The Turnpike Troubadours" (2015)


  G C D Em Am

E  3 0 2 0  0
B  3 1 3 0  1
G  0 0 2 0  2
D  0 2 0 2  2
A  2 3 x 2  0
E  3 x x 0  0


Intro

G G C G G G D D G G C G  C G D Em Em G G


Verse 1

   Em     G
The covey took wing
 D     G
Shotguns a singing
  C      G      D      D
A pointing dog down in the old logging road

 Em    G
Danny got three
   D       G
And looked back a grinning
  C    G      D     D
I fumbled around and I tried to reload

   C      G
The country was cold
     D      G
With the sun westward sinking
   C     G      D    D
It's good to be back in this place

     C   G
With my hands around
  D      G
A Belgian made Browning
  C      G      D   D   D   D
My mind on the lines of her face


Verse 2

     Em     G
Well now Danny's my buddy
  D      G
We grew up like family
 C      G    D       D
Hunted this timber before we could drive

   Em     G
The old English pointer
  D       G
He once belonged to me
    C    G     D     D
But I gave him up when I moved in '05

 C     G
Off to the girl
 D     G
Off to the city
 C    G     D    D
Off on a wing and a chance

    C         G
Hell I thought it'd play out
 D       G
Just like some story
 C     G     D   D   D    D
We fell in love at a rodeo dance


Chorus

     G  G     C    G
She said go on back to Cherokee County
      C        G       D      D
Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb
 G      G       C      G
Babe, if you need me, I'll be where you found me
 C    G      D       Em   Em   G   G
Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home


Verse 3

      Em      G
Dan says, "Look at old Jim
  D    G
A dozen Decembers
  C      G       D    D
Behind him no worse for the wear

     Em      G
And your time spent in Tulsa
   D       G
Did not help your shooting
   C      G       D    D
And look at the gray in your hair

   C      G
How good does it feel?
    D       G
You belong in these hills
   C       G     D    D
It's best that you let it all end

        C      G
If you'd have married that girl
      D      G
You'd have married her family
 C      G     D    D    D    D
You dodged a bullet my friend"


Chorus

     G  G     C    G
She said go on back to Cherokee County
      C        G       D      D
Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb
 G      G       C      G
Babe, if you need me, I'll be where you found me
 C    G      D       Em   Em   G   G
Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home


Verse 4

 Em
I was beginning
  D
To deal with it ending
   Am            G     D
The old dog had pointed while part of me died

    Em
And a flutter of feathers
    G
Then a shotgun to shoulder
  C       G     D
I thought of the Fourth of July
      C      G     D
She'll be home on the Fourth of July
       C      G     D
I bet we'll dance on the Fourth of July


Bridge

G G C G G G D D G G C G  C G D Em Em G G G G


Verse 5

      C     G
Dan says, "Hell of a shot
 D            G
Looks like you've still got it
 C       G      D   D
That's what we came here to do

   C      G
It's light enough still
    D      G
At the foot of the hill
     C     G     D   D   D   D
We could kick up a single or two"

     G  G     C    G
She said go on back to Cherokee County
      C        G       D      D
Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb
 G      G       C      G
Babe, if you need me, I'll be where you found me
 C    G      D       G
Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home
 C    G      D       Em     G