Kingfisher chords by
Joanna Newsom

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Key: C major•

Verse 1

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Am

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Whose is the hand that I will hold?

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C

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Whose is the face I will see?

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D

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Whose is the name that I will call

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F

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When I am called to meet

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thee?

Interlude 1

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Verse 2

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In this life who did you love

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C

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Beneath the drifting ashes?

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D

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Am

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Beneath the sheeting banks of air

G

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F

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That barrenly bore our ration

A

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s?

Interlude 2

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C

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G

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Am

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Verse 3

G

G

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Am

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When I could speak it was too late

G

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F

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C

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Didn't you hear me calling?

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D

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Am

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Didn't you see my heart leap like

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G

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F

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A pup in the constant

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barley?

Interlude 3

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G

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Verse 4

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In this new life where did you crouch

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C

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When the sky had set to boiling?

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D

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Am

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Burning within, seen from without

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F

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A

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And your gut was a serpent coiling

Verse 5

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C

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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?

Am

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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

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A

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bending cypress

F#m

F#m

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It was

Verse 6

A

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not on principle

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C

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G

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Show, pro- heart that you have got gall

F#m

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A

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A miracle

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C

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G

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F

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I can bear a lot but not that pall

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C

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I can bear a lot, but not that pall

G

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D

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Kingfisher sound the alarm

Dm

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Say sweet little darling

G

G

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now come to my arms

C

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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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C

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He was a kind, unhurried man

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D

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With a heavy lip and a steady hand

Dm

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C

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G

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But he loved me just like a little child

Like a little child loves

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G

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Am

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a little lamb

Verse 8

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Thrown to the ground by

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A

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something down there

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F

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Bitten by the bad air while

C

C

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G

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the clouds tick

D

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Am

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Trying to read all the signs

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G

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F

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Preparing for when the bombs

A

A

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hit

Interlude 4

A

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C

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G

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F

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Am

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Verse 9

G

G

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D

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Hung from the underbelly

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D

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G

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of the earth

Bm

Bm

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D

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C

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G

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While the stars skid away below

C

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D

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Gormless and

Em

Em

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brakeless, gravel- loose

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Dm

Dm

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A

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C

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Falling silent as gavels in

the snow

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C

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Verse 10

G

G

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F

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Am

Am

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A

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F#m

F#m

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I lay back and

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A

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spit in my chaw

D

D

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C

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G

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F

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Wrapped in the long arm of the law

F#m

F#m

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A

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Who has seen it all

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D

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C

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G

G

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F

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I can bear a lot but not that pall

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Am

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C

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G

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I can bear a lot but not that pall

D

D

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Bm

Bm

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D

D

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Kingfisher, cast your fly

Dm

Dm

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C

C

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O lord, it happens without even trying

G

G

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When I sling a low look from

F

F

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Am

Am

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my shuttering eye

Verse 11

G

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F

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Blows rain upon the one you loved

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G

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And though you were only sparring

C

C

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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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Am

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C

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Verse 12

Am

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G

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Stand here and name the

F

F

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Am

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one you loved

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G

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C

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G

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Beneath the drifting ashes

D

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Am

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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

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D

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Am

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C

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D

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Am

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We came by

Verse 13

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the boatload

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Am

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And were immobilized

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C

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Worshiping volcanoes

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D

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Am

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Charting the loping skies

Verse 14

C

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G

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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

Am

Am

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C

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Obstinate as obsidian

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D

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Unmoving, save our eyes

Verse 15

C

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G

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Just mooning and blinking

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A

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From faces marked with coal

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C

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G

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Ash cooling and shrinking

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Am

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Cracks loud as thunder rolling, I swear

Verse 16

Am

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C

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G

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I know you, you know me

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G

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D

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Am

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Where have we met

before, tell me true?

C

C

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G

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To whose authority

D

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Do you consign your soul?

Verse 17

Am

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C

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I had a dream you came to me

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D

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Saying, you shall not do me harm anymore

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Am

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C

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And with your knife you evicted my life

G

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From its little lighthouse on the seashore

Am

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And I saw

Verse 18

that my blood

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had no bounds

G

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Spreading in a circle like

D

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an atom bomb

Dm

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Soaking and felling everything in its path

G

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F

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Am

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And welling in my heart like a birdbath

Verse 19

C

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It is too short, the day we are born

D

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We commence with our dying

Dm

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Trying to serve with the heart

C

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G

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of a child

A

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Kingfisher lie with the lion

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Chords

G
F
Am
C
D
A
F#m
Dm
Bm
Em

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Frequently asked questions

The original key of Kingfisher by Joanna Newsom is C major.

The primary chords used in Kingfisher are G, F, Am, C, D, A.

No capo is required for this song.

Yes, this version uses open chords like G, F, Am, C, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of Kingfisher is approximately 91 beats per minute.

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