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Gavin's Woodpile easy guitar chords by
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn

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Intro 1
Em
Dsus2
Em

Dsus2
Em
Dsus2
Em
Dsus2
Em

Dsus2

Em

Verse 1
Em
Dsus2
Em
C
Em
C

Working out on Gavin's woodpile
Em
Dsus2
Em

Safe with in the harmony
D
Em
D
G
Em
Am

of kin
C
Am

Visions begin to crowd my eye s
Bm
Esus4
A

Like a meteor shower
Em
Bm
A

in the autumn skies
Am

And the soil beneath me seems to moan
Bm
A

With a sound like the wind
D
Bm

through a hollow bone
D
Am
C
Am
C

And my mind fills with figures like
Am
Em
C

Lappish runes of power

And log slams on rough- hewn log
Em
Bm
G

And a voice from somewhere
D
C
D

scolds a barking dog
Em
D
Em
Verse 2

Dsus2

I remember a bleak- eye
D
Em
C
Em
C

d prisoner
Dsus2
D
Esus4
Em

In the Stoney Mountain life- suspension
Am
Em
D
G
Em
D
Am

home
C

You drink and fight and damage someone
D
Bm
D
A

And they throw you away for some
Bm
Am

years of boredom
Bm

One year done and five more to go
A
D
Bm

No job waiting so no parole
Em
Am
C

And over and over they tell you
Em
C

that you're nothing
Em

And I toss another log
C

on Gavin's woodpile
Em
Bm

And wonder at the lamp- warm
C
Am
D

window's welcome smile
Em
Verse 3

Dsus2
Em

I remember crackling embers
C
Em
C
Dsus2
Em

Colored windows shin
Am
Em
D
Em
D
Em

ing through the rain
Am
C

Like the colored slicks on
Am

The English River two
D
Bm

Death in the marrow and
Esus4
Bm

death in the liver
Em
Am

And some government gambler

with his mouth full of steak
C
D
Bm
D
A

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

fish in some other lake
Am

To watch a people die,
C
Em
C

it is no new thing"

And the stack of wood grows

higher and higher
Bm

And a helpless rage seems
C
Am
D

to set my brain on fire
Em

Verse 4
Am

And everywhere the free space fills
C

Like a punctured diving
Am

suit and I'm

Paralyzed in the face of it all
Em
D
Bm
F
Am

Cursed with the curse of these modern times
Interlude 1
Em
Dsus2

Em
Dsus2
Em

Dsus2
Em
Dsus2
D
Em
Dsus2
D

Em
Distant
Verse 5
Em

mountains,
Dsus2
Em
C

blue and liquid
Dsus2
Esus4
D

Luminous like a thickening of
Dsus2
Em
D
G
Em
G
Em

sky
Am

Flash in my mind like a stairway to life
Bm
D

A train whistle cuts through the
Bm
D
Am

scene like a knife

Three hawks wheel in a dazzling sky
Bm
D
Bm

A slow motion jet makes

them look like a lie
Am
C

And I'm left to conclude there's
Em

no human answer near
C
D
C

But there's a narrow path

to a life to come
Em
Bm

That explodes into sight with
D
Am
D

the power of the sun
Em
Verse 6
Am

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
Em
D
Em
F
Am

It's a sign of a hope that's ours for all time
Outro 1
Am
Em
Esus4
Em
Dsus2
Em
Dsus2

Em
Dsus2
Em

Dsus2
Em
Dsus2
D

Em
Dsus2
Em
Dsus2
Em
Dsus2
Em


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  • Dsus2

  • C

  • D

  • G

  • Am

  • Bm

    2
  • Esus4

  • A

  • F

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