Key: Bb major•
Verse 1
Bb
Fm
On a lark, I took a drive
Toward the sign that said 'The West'
When I seen it
Fm
Bb
F
That glimmering green mark
Cm
Bb
Dm
To feel you in the passenger seat
Bb
Dm
Bb
Humming I’m older
Cm
Bb
I feel your withered hand on my knee
Bb
When
Verse 2
F
Bb
we we were kids
Dm
Bb
Ab
we'd pile in
Fm
F
Bb
And take the the same road toward
The island in the West
Dm
Fm
We would run and skipping stones
F
Bb
Cm
Sinking lower than the evening sun
Dm
C
Bb
Cm
Getting older every day
Dm
F
Those were diamond days
Verse 3
Dm
C
F
Bb
And I think I know where
Dm
C
Where you go when you die
F
Bb
you're the magpie
Dm
Bb
Fm
F
One sorrow, two for joy
Verse 4
Dm
Bb
Fm
All the birds that perched upon it
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F
Bb
Cm
But now a bee's in my bonnet
Dm
Bb
Causeways and the dunes
Cm
Bb
And the magpie's lonely
wail sounded like you
Dm
F
Verse 5
Dm
C
F
Bb
F
Now that I think that I know
Bb
F
Dm
C
F
Bb
Where we going when you die
Interlude 1
You are the magpie
Bb
Gm
Dm
Gm
Dm
Gsus4
Gm
Dm
Gm
Dm
Gm
Dm
Gm
Dm
Verse 6
Gm
Dm
All the way from Clare
Gm
Dm
The Atlantic in our hair
F
Dm
A murder of crows flew over us
Gm
Dm
Early morning drive,
Gm
Dm
singing to pass the time
F
Dm
When you can shut the door
And you can feel us
Gm
Dm
Coming around the bend,
Gm
Dm
F
coming home again
Dm
Bb
Even the sky come down like this
Dm
Fm
F
Interlude 2
Bb
Fm
Bb
F
Bb
Verse 7
Dm
Fm
Bb
F
Bb
We will bury you along the same road
As the sun sets in the west
Dm
Fm
You, on our shoulders, we will lower you
F
Bb
Cm
Into the ground like a boulder
Dm
Bb
Cm
hum ming a
Cheek though I'm alone
Dm
Bb
Bb
F
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