Sparrow

Chords

Standard

# Listen to the song for the strumming pattern (pluck the G string and strums down twice for a simple version). For the last line of the intro to the chorus, in the line "One day the one you battle might be me", on "me" she plays a C and afterwards an Am along with the C, and then slides her finger up 1 fret from the Am and back again, maintaining the hold on the C: C, Am/C, Am+1/C, Am/C. In chart form it looks like this:

A|------|------|--X---|------|
E|------|------|------|------|
C|------|------|------|------|
G|------|------|------|------|

A|------|------|--X---|------|
E|------|------|------|------|
C|------|------|------|------|
G|------|--X---|------|------|

A|------|------|--X---|------|
E|------|------|------|------|
C|------|------|------|------|
G|------|------|--X---|------|

A|------|------|--X---|------|
E|------|------|------|------|
C|------|------|------|------|
G|------|--X---|------|------|


F             Dm
If I was not afraid to meet
     Bb              F
then I might live in peace.
    A            Dm
I'd give away my wooden ears,
G7                  Bb            F
help you teach your frozen lips to speak.

F            Dm
You have not stolen here
   Bb              F
but you can hardly sleep.
    A                       Dm
The horns and shells you've gathered here,
    G7              Bb              C    Am/C, Am+1/C, Am/C
one day the one you battle might be me.

Dm            F
Blackbird, go lost
Bb               F              C    Am/C, Am+1/C, Am/C
I will bring her back to you in spring.
Dm                  F
She won't change at all,
Bm               F                  (C   Am/C, Am+1/C,) Am/C (Repeat), single strum C
let your sparrow fall to what might be.

F                         Dm
And when you've done your howling
    Bb             F
and done with everything,
   A               Dm
if she is gone for months again
     G7                Bb                F
will you still say you watch for sparrow wings?

F            Dm
You have not stolen dear,
    Bb            F
but I can plainly see
    A                       Dm
the horns and shells you're holding here,
    G7              Bb              C    Am/C, Am+1/C, Am/C
one day the one you battle might be me.

Dm            F
Blackbird, go lost
Bb               F              C    Am/C, Am+1/C, Am/C
I will bring her back to you in spring.
Dm                  F
She won't change at all,
Bb               F                  C    Am/C, Am+1/C, Am/C
let your sparrow fall to what might be.

Dm                  F
She won't change at all,
Bb               F
let your sparrow fall.
Dm                  F
She won't change at all,
Bb               F
let your sparrow fall.