Coywolves chords by Rogue Oliphant

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Verse 1
Em 
Koi  (E minor) wolves.
The sight of one crossing my yard,
All copper zinc in broad daylight,
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Em 
Is etched  (D major) on my  (E minor) eye.
E 
It's mostly  (E major) at night, though,
Em 
 (E minor) When they snag a hapless deer,
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Em 
 (D major) Their voices are raised  (E minor) on high.
No sooner do they corner a
D 
wood (D major) chuck or raccoon
Em 
D 
than  (E minor) their cover of Ghost  (D major) Riders in the Sky
Em 
re (E minor) sounds from here to Oregon.
The version I myself favour to
kick off a road trip
is Frankie Lane's of 1963.
Others reckon Johnny Cash
Em 
to be pre -emin (E minor) ent.
Fm 
Still others  (F minor) heap praise
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Em 
on  (E major) Elvis Presley  (E minor) and Burl Ives.
E 
This midnight mix  (E major) of yodels
Fm 
and  (F minor) yippy -ios
Em 
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 (E minor) may de (E major) rive not from a whole pack,
Em 
 (E minor) but a single pair.
E 
In  (E major) Alaska, a hunter's been known to set
out knives covered in ice blood,
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on which coy  (F sharp minor) wolves will pare themselves
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Em 
 (E major) down to the  (E minor) bone.
E 
Though  (E major) this may be no
Em 
E 
 (E minor) more than  (E major) a brouhaha
Em 
E 
 (E minor) over competing  (E major) claims to
a garbage bin
that'll set off the neigh
E 
bour's motion de (E major) tector camera,
Em 
we hear it as both a paean of praise  (E minor) from
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Em 
a mission featuring  (E major) a mosaic of St. Francis and the  (E minor) Wolf
and a muezzin's call to prayer
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Em 
from  (D major) an  (E minor) unlikely mosque.
Frankie Lane did invite me once
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Em 
 (E major) to co -write a  (E minor) song
but I stupidly declined because
I can't read music. you