Key: A minor
Verse 1
F#m
A
Birch tree lost its branch
Bm
A
D
one day in violent winter
G
A
Bm
I said, "It was grieving," you said,
A
D
"It don't feel nothing"
Bm
A
I bet you think everything's
D
G
in its rightful place
Bm
A
D
That sentiment is man's disgrace
Verse 2
D
Bm
G
A
Well the rooks in the trees,
Bm
F#m
D
they don't half bother me
Bm
G
A
Bm
Clawing at my mind with every
A
D
given opportunity
Bm
A
It's spring outside
D
G
Bm
A perilous sky and that terrible
A
D
clattering sound
Bm
A
"Go ahead, you should go
G
shoot them down"
Bm
That's what you said
A
G
"You should go shoot them down"
Verse 3
G
A
Bm
So hey, that's me
D
Shooting at a hundred-year-old
rookery
rookery
A
rookery
Oh, look at me
Bm
A
G
The definition of futility
That's what they'll say anyway
Won't they, babe?
Verse 4
Bm
G
A
Bm
So I'll go back to working through the
A
D
gentle hours of the evening
Bm
G
A
Bm
Where the weather and the wine and
A
D
the company treat me easily
Bm
A
D
Unknowing am I of the wind
G
that took my eye
Bm
A
Unknowing am I of the wind
D
Verse 5
Bm
A
Unknowing am I of the wind
D
G
that took my eye
Bm
A
D
Unknowing am I of the wind
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