Key: C major
Verse 1
where we walked as a boy of thirteen.
Em
E
trying to bury that woman.
Horsed in a wood, used to be good,
Am
E
was hit by a friendly tree.
I planted my sugar in the dark mills
Where we walked as a boy of thirteen
Carried money across
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E
Am
quiet nights
E
Em
You should have heard her scream
Am
E
My dream, my dream,
you should have heard her scream
Her face had to be seen
Insisting she should know,
Break me, she said
Am
Em
E
Turn me head, turn me dead,
didn't think I would it, nor could it
Em
E
But I did it, I did it, I dug it,
I did it, I dug it, I dug it
My dream, my dream
You shoulda heard her scream
E
C
but there she lies
Hello little girl, what's your name?
Does anybody else know
Eb
C
you're here?
Might your mama and papa
know you're here?
I see, have you been here long?
Csus4
C
Might you like to play a game
Csus4
Bb
C
with me?
Yes.
Don't back away little girl.
Bb
C
You can't know what I've done.
Or where I've come from.
G
C
Where do I live?
In the house up on the hill
Bb
C
Why?
When I was a young boy I used
to play with the butterflies
And they said I was, well,
you wouldn't understand, little girl.
Hey, little girl,
don't play with the birdie nest.
You'll break the birdie eggs.
Eb
C
Eb
C
I'm lonely.
Hey, little girl, it's getting darker now.
Soon they'll come and take
me back to my little cell
Eb
C
Eb
C
Csus4
with only my pictures and stories to tell
C
Bb
C
of the days that I used to play with
the butterflies over the river,
warm, soft, and gossamer.
Oh, little girl, don't run away, stay a while
Oh, little girl, they said I was ill
I'm not ill, I'm not ill little girl
It's the butterflies, why does no one love
Oh, I can't help being different from them
Oh, it's the butterflies
It's the butterflies, little girl
It's the butterflies
F
C
It's the butterflies
C
Bb
C
Bb
C
Bb
C
Eb
C
music
C
Bb
C
cheering
C
Bb
drums play
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC E Em Am Eb...
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