Birmingham Shadows
Birmingham Shadows

Birmingham Shadows easy guitar chords by Bruce Cockburn

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Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

Capo

Fret 2

Capo

Transpose

0

Capo
  • Em

  • Esus4

  • D

  • Bm

    2
  • G

  • B

    2
  • A

  • F#sus4

    2
  • Bsus4

    2
  • F#m

    2
  • C

  • Asus4

  • F#

    2
  • Em

  • Esus4

  • D

  • Bm

    2
  • G

  • B

    2
  • A

  • F#sus4

    2
  • Bsus4

    2
  • F#m

    2
  • C

  • Asus4

  • F#

    2
  • Intro 1



    Verse 1
    Birmingham 

    Just 
    behind 
    the moun
    tain 

    Sparse 
    streetlamps glow 
    in 

    hot 
    half-moon 
    haze 

    haze 

    Shadows 
    shorten 
    into little 
    black 
    pools 

    that elongate 
    behind 

    We walk, 
    talk 
    some, 

    laugh 
    some 


    Worked 
    hard, 
    now 
    wired, 

    and hanging 
    out 

    I'm 
    curious 
    what 

    you might 
    be 
    all 
    about 

    Curious, 
    too, 
    what that 
    dark-shape 
    in 
    in the 

    hard 
    shining 
    cruiser 
    might 
    do 

    And 
    you 
    have 
    no 
    idea 
    what 
    you're 
    getting 

    Out 
    of of your 
    own curiosity 
    and 

    tense 
    energy 

    Tattoo 
    on 
    chest 
    like 
    the 
    key 
    to 
    the puzzle 

    of your 
    pumping 
    heart 

    Wearing 
    your shadows 
    all 
    over 

    your sleeve 

    Wearing 
    the 
    role 
    of 
    young 
    up
    start 


    Verse 2
    Birmingham 
    shadows 
    fall 

    You 
    show 
    little, 
    let 
    something 

    show 
    too 

    It's 
    now 
    or 
    not 
    at 
    all 

    Out 
    on the 
    road, 
    it's 
    always 
    instant 
    get to 
    know 

    Interlude 1
    you 




    Verse 3
    Under 
    velvet 
    trees, 

    towering 
    like 
    the sides 
    of a 
    well 

    Before 
    the empty 
    two 
    office 
    blocks 

    Which 
    we're 
    admon
    ished 

    not 
    to 
    enter

    Policeman 
    studies 
    us, 

    finds 
    us 
    confusing 

    More 
    amusing 
    than 
    threat 

    Moves 
    on, 

    bemused 

    Pavement 
    spirals 
    down 
    ahead 
    like 

    the fossil 
    of a 
    giant 
    shell 

    Along 
    the kingdom's 
    midnight 
    marches 



    I wear 
    my 
    shadows 

    where they're 
    harder 
    to 
    see 

    But 
    they 
    follow 
    me 
    everywhere 

    I guess 
    that should 
    tell 
    me that 
    I'm travelling 

    toward 
    light 

    I guess 
    something 
    you 
    sang 
    made 

    me re
    member 
    that 

    Interlude 2
    I guess 
    I'm 
    saying 
    thanks 
    for that 



    Verse 4
    Birmingham 
    shadows 
    fall 

    You 
    show 
    a little, 
    let 
    something 

    show 
    too 

    It's 
    now 
    or 
    not 
    at 
    all 

    Out 
    on 
    the road, 
    it's 
    always 
    instant 
    get to 
    know 
    you 

    Interlude 3





















    Got 
    a head 
    full 
    of horrors 
    Verse 5
    and 

    a heart 
    full 
    of night 

    At home 
    in the 
    darkness, 

    but 
    hungry 
    for 
    dawn 

    only remember 
    scenes, 

    never 
    the 
    stories 
    I live 

    The good 
    things 
    about 
    that 
    is, 

    it's easy 
    to 
    forgive 

    Can't 
    make 
    assumptions 
    about 

    any of 
    this 

    We're 
    nomads 
    following 

    our own 
    song 
    lines 

    Who 
    knows 
    what 
    could strike 

    before 
    we 
    meet 
    again? 

    But 
    if I 
    fall 
    down 
    and die 

    Without 
    saying 
    goodbye 

    give 
    you this, 
    you'll 
    have lost 
    a friend 


    Verse 6
    Birmingham 
    shadows 
    fall 

    You 
    show 
    little, 
    let 
    something 
    show 

    too 


    It's 
    now 
    or 
    not 
    at 
    all 

    Out 
    on 
    the road, 
    it's 
    always 
    instant 
    get to 
    know 
    you 

    Outro 1







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