Key: Bb major
Verse 1
G
C
G
C
G
You look so pretty lying there
with dreamland's smile upon your face
C
A
Your golden curls in disarray upon your
tight around your lovely throat
A
D
troy the message on the note
Verse 2
G
D
The note I left upon the perfumed
G
C
stationary by the phone
the middle of the night and go
A
D
faintly that I told you so
Verse 3
G
C
I told you I was like a bird,
G
D
a free and wild and restless thing
G
C
And even though I take a mate and
A
D
build a nest in early spring
G
C
When summer winds have had their day,
G
C
and winter clouds are flying high
D
G
I spread my wings and fly
Interlude 1
G
C
G
C
Verse 4
nothing here must hold me back
A
D
and the tender way you scratched my back
and the way you cook your ham and eggs
A
D
softened up your lovely legs
Verse 5
G
D
G
I like the static noise I heard when you
smiled and never frowned
A
D
and took me just for what I am
Verse 6
G
C
I told you I was like a bird,
G
D
a free and wild and restless thing
G
C
And even though I take a mate and
A
D
build a nest in early spring
G
C
When summer winds have had their day,
G
C
and winter clouds are flying high
D
G
I spread my wings and fly
Interlude 2
G
Ab
Verse 7
Eb
Ab
Db
as I leave I fight the yearning in my blood
passion for I cannot stay
Bb
Eb
the be st it ended up this way
Verse 8
Ab
Db
I told you I was like a bird,
Ab
Eb
a free and wild and restless thing
Ab
Db
And even though I take a mate and
Bb
Eb
build a nest in early spring
Ab
Db
When sum mer winds have had their day,
Ab
Db
and winter clouds are flying high
Ab
Eb
Ab
Instinctively, I spread my wings and fly
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