Broken bird chords by
John Cale
John Cale
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Key: D minor
Intro 1
Ebm
Ebm

B
B

Ebm
Ebm

Bb
Bb

B
B

Verse 1
Bb
Bb

Like a broken
Ebm
Ebm

Db
Db

winged, like a broken bird
Abm
Abm

Gb
Gb

Ebm
Ebm

She senses everything that's near her
Gb
Gb

B
B

Gb
Gb

And nothing in the light
Ebm
Ebm

Abm
Abm

of day could see how
Gb
Gb

How her happiness faded
Interlude 1
away
B
B

Ebm
Ebm

B
B

Ebm
Ebm

Verse 2
B
B

Ebm
Ebm

Her happiness faded away with the night
B
B

Gb
Gb

Away with the dawn as the sea
Db
Db

faring galleon
B
B

The fish and the heron
Db
Db

Fm
Fm

Db
Db

Walking stiffly,
Gb
Gb

Ebm
Ebm

Gb
Gb

the stalker oblivion
Db
Db

Ebm
Ebm

Keep me alive in the stars at night
Db
Db

And I'll shine on you like a way
Ebm
Ebm

Verse 3
Gb
Gb

B
B

The broken wing on the bird
Ebm
Ebm

Abm
Abm

B
B

A broken wing he didn't have to break
Gb
Gb

B
B

Gb
Gb

Ebm
Ebm

Gb
Gb

Only reading, reading the wrong signs
And thinking
Abm
Abm

Gb
Gb

Hell where is harm in just say ing
Abm
Abm

Could it be I'm just saying
Gb
Gb

The same thing again?
B
B

And, ladies and gentlemen
Gb
Gb

Carry me down to Hell
Abm
Abm

Db
Db

Lend me, lend me your fires
Ebm
Ebm

Bb
Bb

'Cause I'm broken winged
Ebm
Ebm

Gb
Gb

B
B

could be any thing
Gb
Gb

Any day, any time or year or month
Abm
Abm

Satisfied, are you satisfied?
Now that, that you're satisfied
Outro 1
Done it again
Db
Db

Ebm
Ebm

B
B

Ebm
Ebm

B
B

Abm
Abm

Gb
Gb

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