First Recollection chords by Cowboy Junkies

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Intro 1

Verse 1
C 
My first recollection  (C major) 
E 
C 
is a day in December  (E major)  (C major) 
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C 
Black iron steam engine  (E major) covered in ice  (C major) 
Like some Precambrian monster
E 
Moaning an (E major) d snorting
C 
 (C major) Nothing was ever going to beat that beast
E 
In a fair  (E major) fight

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Verse 2

I've sat and watched the woodpiles

Grow through the summer

Now I'm sitting,

smelling summer burn through the fall

Winter's coming on, days getting dreary

And I'm thinking this is the season

That I leave you all

Verse 3
F 
I've heard a man  (F major) in crisis
E 
Falls back on what he knows  (E major) best,
F 
A mur (F major) derer to murder
E 
A thief to  (E major) theft
F 
And I  (F major) don't want you to think
That this is some kind of
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F 
deathbed con (E major) fession  (F major) 
But run is what I did when put to

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Verse 4
C 
My first recollection  (C major) is a day
E 
C 
in December  (E major)  (C major) 
E 
C 
747 tracing lines  (E major) through the sky  (C major) 
Like some old gypsy curse
E 
Silently  (E major) preying upon
C 
the  (C major) dreams of those
E 
Who jealously watch life pass  (E major) by

Verse 5
C 
 (C major) 
I've sat and watched my troubles
E 
Pile through the sum (E major) mer
C 
Now I'm sit (C major) ting,
hearing my youngest cry
E 
C 
 (E major) Down the hall  (C major) 
E 
Winter's coming on, days getting dreary  (E major) 
C 
And I'm think (C major) ing this is the season
E 
That I  (E major) leave you all

Verse 6
F 
I've  (F major) heard that the son
must bear
E 
The burdens of the father  (E major) 
F 
But it's the  (F major) daughter that is left
E 
To clean up the mess  (E major) 
F 
And I  (F major) don't want you to think
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F 
That I'm asking for absolution,  (E major)  (F major) 
But run is what I did when put to