Use Me While You Can
Use Me While You Can

Use Me While You Can easy guitar chords by Bruce Cockburn

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Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

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  • G

  • Dm

  • C

  • Bb

  • Dsus4

  • D

  • Ab

    4

  • Am

  • Csus2

  • Gsus4

  • F

  • Bm

    2

  • E

  • Em

  • G

  • Dm

  • C

  • Bb

  • Dsus4

  • D

  • Ab

    4

  • Am

  • Csus2

  • Gsus4

  • F

  • Bm

    2

  • E

  • Em

    • Intro 1






    Verse 1
    There's 
    a black 
    and white crow 
    On the back 

    of a two- 
    toned 
    sheep 

    In a field 
    of broken 
    yellow 
    stalks 

    Below 
    looming cliffs 

    Verse 2
    High 
    above the 
    plains 

    Little grey 
    houses 
    blend 

    With giant 
    jagged 
    boulders 

    And 
    pale weathered 
    stumps 

    Life 
    Verse 3
    in the ghost 
    of the bush 

    Verse 4

    Wind 
    whips the 
    acacias 
    and 

    strange 
    forked 
    palms 

    That cluster 
    around the water 
    hole 

    Suddenly, 
    Verse 5

    out of the 
    blowing 
    sand 

    A milk- 
    white camel 
    appears 

    Verse 6
    Turbaned 
    rider, 
    blue robe 
    billowing 

    Bounces 
    with 
    the shambling 
    trot 

    Wears 
    a sword 
    and a rifle 
    on his 
    back 

    And hanging from 
    his neck, 

    a transistor 
    radio 

    You blink 
    and like 
    ghosts, 
    Verse 7

    they're gone 

    Verse 8

    Under 
    the 
    wan 
    disc 
    of sand- 

    masked 
    sun 

    A woman grins, 
    spits ex
    pertly 

    Into the 
    path of a 
    strug
    gling 
    black 
    beetle 

    Six 
    feet away 

    Hoists her water 
    bucket 
    onto her head 

    And 
    strides 
    off 
    up the trail 

    Interlude 1


    Sun 
    a steel 
    ball 
    Verse 9
    glowing 

    Behind 
    endless 
    blowing 
    sand 

    Sun 
    a 
    steel 
    ball 
    glowing 

    Dust 
    of fallen 
    empires 
    slowly 

    flowing 
    through 
    my 
    hands 

    Use 
    me 
    while you 
    can 

    Verse 10

    Pearl 
    held 
    in 
    black 
    fingers 

    Is the 
    moon 
    behind 
    dry 
    trees 

    Pearl 
    held 
    in 
    black 
    fin
    gers 

    Bird 
    in
    side 
    the rib 
    cage 
    is 
    beating 

    to 
    be 
    free 

    Use 
    me 
    while you 
    can


    Verse 11

    I've 
    had breakfast 
    in New Orleans 

    Dinner 
    in 
    Timbuktu 

    I've 
    lived as 
    a stranger 
    in 

    my own 
    house 
    too 

    Dark 
    hand 
    waves 
    in lamplight 

    Cowrie 
    shell 
    patterns 
    change 


    And nothing 
    will 
    be the 
    same 
    again 

    Interlude 2



    Bullet 
    in 
    a 
    sand
    Verse 12
    storm 

    Looking 
    for a 
    place 
    to 
    land 

    Bullet 
    in 
    a sand
    storm 

    Full 
    heart 
    beats 
    an empty 
    one 

    In the 
    deck 
    they 
    dealt 
    to 
    man 



    Use 
    me 
    while you 
    can 

    Outro 1


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