Kingfisher chords by
Joanna Newsom

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Key: C major

Verse 1
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Whose is the hand that I  will hold?
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Whose is the face I will see?
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Whose is the name that I will call
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When I  am called to meet
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thee?

Interlude 1

Verse 2
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In this life who did you love
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Beneath the drifting ashes?
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Beneath the sheeting banks of  air
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That barrenly bore our ration
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s?

Interlude 2

Verse 3
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When I could speak it was too late
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Didn't you hear me calling?
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Am Am 
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Didn't you see my heart leap like
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G G 
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A pup in the constant
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barley?

Interlude 3

Verse 4

In this new life where did you crouch

When the sky had set to boiling?

Burning within, seen from without

And your gut was a serpent coiling

Verse 5
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And for the sake of that pit of snakes
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For whom did you allay
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your shyness?
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And spend all your mercy
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and madness and grace
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In a day beneath the
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G G 
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bending cypress
F#m F#m 2
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It    was

Verse 6
A A 
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not on principle
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Show, pro- heart that you have got gall
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A miracle
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I  can bear a lot but not that pall
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I can bear a lot, but not that pall
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D D 
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Kingfisher sound the alarm
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Say sweet little darling
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now come to my arms
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Tell me all about the love
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you left on the farm

Verse 7
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He  was a kind, unhurried man
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With a  heavy lip and a steady hand
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C C 
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But he loved me  just like a little child
Like a little child loves
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a little lamb

Verse 8
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Thrown to the ground by
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A A 
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something down there
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Bitten by the bad air while
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G G 
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the clouds tick
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Am Am 
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Trying to read all the signs
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F F 
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Preparing for when the bombs
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hit

Interlude 4

Verse 9
G G 
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Hung from the underbelly
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D D 
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G G 
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of  the earth
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C C 
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G G 
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While the stars skid away below
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D D 
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Gormless and
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brakeless, gravel- loose
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Dm Dm 
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A A 
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Falling silent as gavels in
the snow
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C C 
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Verse 10
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Am Am 
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A A 
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F#m F#m 2
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I  lay back and
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spit in my chaw
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Wrapped in the long arm of the law
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A A 
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Who   has seen it all
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C C 
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G G 
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F F 
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I  can bear a lot but not that pall
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C C 
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G G 
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I can bear a lot but not that pall
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Bm Bm 2
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D D 
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Kingfisher, cast your fly
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C C 
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O lord, it happens without even trying
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When I sling a low look from
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Am Am 
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my shuttering eye

Verse 11
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Am Am 
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F F 
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Blows rain upon the one you loved
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G G 
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And though you were only sparring
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G G 
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There's blood on the eye,
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Am Am 
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unlace the glove
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Say, honey, I am not sorry
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A A 
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C C 
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Verse 12
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A A 
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G G 
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Stand here and name the
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Am Am 
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one you loved
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C C 
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G G 
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Beneath the drifting ashes
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G G 
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And in naming, rise above time
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As it, flashing,
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passes

Interlude 5

We came by

Verse 13

the boatload

And were immobilized

Worshiping volcanoes

Charting the loping skies

Verse 14
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The tides of the earth left
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Us bound and calcified and
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made as
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Obstinate as obsidian
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Unmoving, save our eyes

Verse 15

Just mooning and blinking

From faces marked with coal

Ash cooling and shrinking

Cracks loud as thunder rolling, I swear

Verse 16
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I know you, you know me
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Where have we met
before, tell me true?
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To whose authority
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Do you consign your soul?

Verse 17
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I had a dream you came to me
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Saying, you shall not do me harm anymore
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C C 
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And with your knife you evicted my life
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From its little lighthouse on the seashore
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And I saw

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that my blood
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had no bounds
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Spreading in a circle like
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an atom bomb
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Soaking and felling everything in its path
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And welling in my heart like a  birdbath

Verse 19
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It is too short, the day we are born
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We commence with our dying
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Trying to serve with the heart
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G G 
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of a child
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Kingfisher lie with the lion

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