Magpie chords by Aoife O'Donovan

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Verse 1
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On a lark, I took a drive
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down a dark road
Toward the sign that said 'The West'
When I seen it
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That glimmering green mark
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was all I needed
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To feel you in the passenger seat
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Humming I’m older
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I feel your withered hand on my knee
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Though I'm traveling alone
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When

Verse 2
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we we were kids
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we'd pile in
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And take the the same road toward
The island in the West
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We would run and skipping stones
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Sinking lower than the evening sun
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You were an old man then
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Getting older every day
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And I could feel it then
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Those were diamond days

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Verse 3

And I think I know where

Where you go when you die

you're the magpie

One sorrow, two for joy

Verse 4
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Though I never pay no mind to the wire
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All the birds that perched upon it
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But now a bee's in my bonnet
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I remember the country roads
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Causeways and the dunes
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And the magpie's lonely
wail sounded like you
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Verse 5

Now that I think that I know

Where we going when you die

Interlude 1

You are the magpie

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Verse 6
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All the way from Clare
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The Atlantic in  our hair
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A murder of crows flew over us
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Early morning drive,
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singing to pass the time
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When you can shut the door
And you can feel us
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Coming around the bend,
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coming home again
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Even the sky come down like this
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Interlude 2

Verse 7
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When you go
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We will bury you along the same road
As the sun sets in the west
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You, on our shoulders, we will lower you
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Into the ground like a boulder
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When a magpie lands on me,
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hum ming a
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I feel your breath on my
Cheek though I'm alone
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