Gavin's Woodpile
Gavin's Woodpile

Gavin's Woodpile easy guitar chords by Bruce Cockburn

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Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

Capo

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Capo

Transpose

0

Capo
  • Em

  • Dsus2

  • C

  • D

  • G

  • Am

  • Bm

    2
  • Esus4

  • A

  • F

  • Em

  • Dsus2

  • C

  • D

  • G

  • Am

  • Bm

    2
  • Esus4

  • A

  • F

  • Intro 1




    Verse 1
    Working 
    out 
    on 
    Gav
    in's 
    woodpile 

    Safe 
    with
    in 
    the 
    harmony 

    of 
    kin 

    Visions 
    begin 
    to crowd 
    my 
    eye

    Like 
    meteor 
    shower 

    in the 
    autum
    n skies 

    And 
    the soil 
    beneath 
    me 
    seems 
    to moan 

    With 
    a sound 
    like 
    the wind 

    through 
    hollow 
    bone 

    And 
    my mind 
    fills 
    with 
    fig
    ures 
    like 

    Lappish runes 
    of 
    power

    And log 
    slams 
    on rough- 
    hewn 
    log 

    And 
    a voice 
    from 
    somewhere 

    scolds 
    bark
    ing 
    dog 

    Verse 2

    remember 
    bleak- 
    eye

    pris
    oner 

    In the 
    Stoney 
    Mountain 
    life- 
    suspension 

    home 

    You drink 
    and 
    fight 
    and 
    damage 
    someone 

    And they 
    throw 
    you away 
    for some 

    years 
    of 
    boredom 

    One 
    year 
    done 
    and 
    five 
    more 
    to go 

    No 
    job 
    wait
    ing 
    so 
    no 
    parole 

    And 
    over 
    and 
    over 
    they 
    tell 
    you 

    that 
    you're noth
    ing 

    An
    d I toss 
    another 
    log 

    on Gavin's 
    woodpile 

    And 
    wonder 
    at 
    the 
    lamp- 
    warm 

    window's 
    welcome 
    smile 

    Verse 3

    remember 
    crack
    ling 
    embers 

    Colored 
    windows 
    shin

    ing 
    through 
    the 
    rain 

    Like 
    the colored 
    slicks 
    on 

    The Eng
    lish 
    River 
    two 

    Death 
    in the 
    marrow 
    and 

    death 
    in the liver 

    And 
    some 
    government 
    gambler 

    with his 
    mouth 
    full 
    of steak 

    Saying, 
    "If 
    you 
    can't 
    eat the 
    fish, 

    fish 
    in 
    some other 
    lake 

    To 
    watch 
    a people 
    die, 

    it is 
    no 
    new 
    thing" 

    And the 
    stack 
    of wood 
    grows 

    higher 
    and higher 

    And a help
    less 
    rage 
    seems 

    to set 
    my 
    brain 
    on 
    fire 


    Verse 4
    And everywhere 
    the 
    free 
    space 
    fills 

    Like 
    a punctured 
    diving 

    suit 
    and 
    I'm 

    Paralyzed 
    in the face 
    of 
    it all 

    Cursed 
    with the curse 
    of 
    these 
    mod
    ern 
    times 

    Interlude 1



    Distant 
    Verse 5
    mountains, 

    blue 
    and 
    li
    quid 

    Luminous 
    like 
    thick
    ening 
    of 

    sky 

    Flash 
    in 
    my 
    mind 
    like 
    a stairway 
    to 
    life 

    train 
    whistle 
    cuts 
    through the 

    scene 
    like a 
    knife 

    Three 
    hawks 
    wheel 
    in a dazzling 
    sky 

    slow 
    motion 
    jet 
    makes 

    them 
    look 
    like a lie 

    And 
    I'm 
    left 
    to con
    clude 
    there's 

    no 
    human 
    answer 
    near 

    But 
    there's a 
    narrow 
    path 

    to a life 
    to come 

    That ex
    plodes 
    into 
    sight 
    with 

    the power 
    of 
    the 
    sun 

    Verse 6
    A mist 
    rises 
    as the 
    sun 

    goes 
    down 

    And the light 
    that's 
    left 
    forms 

    a kind 
    of 
    crown 

    The earth 
    is bread, 
    the sun 
    is 
    wine 

    It's 
    a sign 
    of a 
    hope 
    that's 
    ours 
    for 
    all 
    time 

    Outro 1





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