Sign chords by
Joe Henry

N/A•

Key: C major•

Verse 1

C

C

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G

G

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C

C

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I was born in Montreal,

G

G

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A winter's slip that bloomed in fall

F

F

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G

G

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Am

Am

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Due my father's lot in life,

G

G

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Am

Am

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I got his name and I killed his wife

G

G

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F

F

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G

G

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C

C

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Am

Am

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As if her blood I'd broken through

Gsus4

Gsus4

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Dm

Dm

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Gsus4

Gsus4

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G

G

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Had nev er been enough for two...

C

C

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So I was sent out early on

G

G

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To cutting black ice on the pond,

Am

Am

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To lying flat and pulling free

Gsus4

Gsus4

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Dm

Dm

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G

G

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C

C

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G

G

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Whatever might rise up to me

C

C

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F

F

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I held my tongue for seven

Verse 2

C

C

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years,

G

G

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F

F

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Fluttered my hands, closed my ears—

G

G

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Am

Am

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As if deaf to every word,

G

G

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Abdim

Abdim

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Am

Am

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Refusing every song I heard

G

G

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F

F

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G

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Am

Am

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That might connect me to this ground,

Dm

Dm

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And hold me should I

G

G

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speak its sound;

So silence spoke for me instead,

C

C

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G

G

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And hovered like the passing dead

F

F

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G

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Am

Am

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Whose prayer is but a laugh unfurled

Dm

Dm

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G

G

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C

C

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G

G

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Above this lost edge of the world

Verse 3

C

C

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G

G

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C

C

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When I was twelve my father fled

G

G

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Gsus4

Gsus4

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G

G

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He left me all he was and had—

F

F

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G

G

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Am

Am

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His hammer and a dying fire,

G

G

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Abdim

Abdim

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Am

Am

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G

G

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An empty vein, and one desire:

F

F

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Am

Am

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To lead my pony from the mines

Dm

Dm

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G

G

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And ride him hard beyond the time

C

C

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F

F

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C

C

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Of broken, long- forgotten souls

G

G

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Who become their fathers in these holes

F

F

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That spark and fume and

C

C

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Am

Am

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smoke and seethe

Dm

Dm

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And claim these hills

G

G

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C

C

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G

G

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but can't claim me

C

C

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G

G

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C

C

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I was wild at twenty-

Verse 4

three,

G

G

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My burning mind turned to the sea,

F

F

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G

G

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Am

Am

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And a sour engine room

G

G

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Am

Am

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G

G

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Of a war ship, hoping war came soon—

F

F

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G

G

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Am

Am

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I spent my rage in tiny towns

G

G

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Wherever we might run aground;

C

C

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G

G

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C

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And every face that met my eye

G

G

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Was calling on some wish to die,

F

F

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G

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Am

Am

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But if I stood and drank alone

G

G

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C

C

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G

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Then that wish became my own

Interlude 1

C

C

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F

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C

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F

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G

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F

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G

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Am

Am

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G

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Am

Am

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G

G

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F

F

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G

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Am

Am

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Dm

Dm

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G

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C

C

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G

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C

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F

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Dm

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G

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C

C

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C

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The years ran as if for their

Verse 5

lives.

I, the shameless beau

G

G

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F

F

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of a governor's wife—

G

G

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Am

Am

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Standing just outside of view

G

G

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Am

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Holding hats and coats and shoes...

G

G

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F

F

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G

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Then running guns for a

C

C

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Am

Am

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lost decade,

Dm

Dm

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G

G

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C

C

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Posing as a doctor's aide—

G

G

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C

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I pushed pins in maps to show

G

G

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How to stop a plague or make it go;

F

F

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G

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Am

Am

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And then they took me out in chains

Dm

Dm

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When a secret shared had

G

G

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C

C

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G

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changed the game

Verse 6

C

C

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G

G

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C

C

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But, all those days have fled somehow

G

G

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And nothing occupies me now—

F

F

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G

G

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Am

Am

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Ex cept for this strange thought of you

G

G

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Am

Am

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Who sat before me back in school,

G

G

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F

F

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G

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Am

Am

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And trailed a rope of braided hair

Dm

Dm

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G

G

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Across the back rail of your chair

C

C

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G

G

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C

C

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And learned to sign your name in air,

G

G

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And read from lips –oh, I might've dared

F

F

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G

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Am

Am

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To simply move my own so you

Dm

Dm

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Could read please love me,

G

G

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C

C

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and might have too

Outro 1

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G

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C

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C

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G

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Am

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Dm

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G

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G

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C

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Chords

C
G
F
Am
Gsus4
Dm
Abdim

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The original key of Sign by Joe Henry is C major.

The primary chords used in Sign are C, G, F, Am, Gsus4, Dm.

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