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Use Me While You Can easy guitar chords by
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn

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Intro 1
G
Dm
G
Dm
G
C
Dm

Bb
Dm
G
Dsus4
D

Dsus4
D
Dm

Dsus4
D

Dm
D

Dsus4
D
Dm
D

Verse 1
D

There's a black and white crow On the back
G

of a two- toned sheep
D

In a field of broken yellow stalks
Dsus4
D

Below looming cliffs
Verse 2
Dm

High above the plains
Ab
D

Little grey houses blend

With giant jagged boulders

And pale weathered stumps
Dsus4
Life
Verse 3
G
D

in the ghost of the bush
Am
Verse 4
Dsus4
D


Wind whips the acacias and

strange forked palms
Dsus4

That cluster around the water hole
D
Suddenly,
Verse 5
Dsus4

D
Dm

out of the blowing sand

A milk- white camel appears
C
Verse 6

Turbaned rider, blue robe billowing
Dm
D

Bounces with the shambling trot
G
D
Dsus4

Wears a sword and a rifle on his back
D

And hanging from his neck,
Am

a transistor radio
Dsus4
D
You blink and like ghosts,
Verse 7
Dm

Csus2
D

they're gone
Csus2
D
Dsus4
D
Verse 8

Bb

Under the wan disc of sand-
Am

masked sun
D

A woman grins, spits expertly
Dsus4
Gsus4
D

Into the path of a strug gling black beetle
Dm

Six feet away
D

Hoists her water bucket onto her head
Dm

And strides off up the trail
Gsus4
F
Interlude 1
Dm
D
Dm
D


Dsus4
Sun a steel ball
Verse 9
D

glowing
Dm
C
D
C
G
Bm
D

Behind endless blowing sand
C
G
Bm
D

Sun a steel ball glowing
Dm
C

Dust of fallen empires slowly
G
Bm

flowing through my hands
Am
E
Em
C
D

Use me while you can
Verse 10
D


Pearl held in black fingers
C
Csus2
G
D

Is the moon behind dry trees
C
Am
G
D

Pearl held in black fingers
Dm
C
G

Bird inside the rib cage is beating
Bm
Am
E
Em
C

to be free
Dm

Use me while you can
D
Dsus4
D
Dm

Verse 11
F


I've had breakfast in New Orleans

Dinner in Timbuktu
Dm
D
Dm
D
F

I've lived as a stranger in
Dm
D
Dm
D
Dm
F

my own house too

Dark hand waves in lamplight
Dm

Cowrie shell patterns change
D
Dm
F

Dm

And nothing will be the same again
D
Interlude 2
Dsus4
D
Dm

D
Dm
D


Dsus4
Bullet in a sand
Verse 12
D

storm
C
D
Dsus4
G
D

Looking for a place to land
C
G
D

Bullet in a sandstorm
C

Full heart beats an empty one
G
Bm

In the deck they dealt to man
Am
Em
C
D

Dm
Em
G
C

Dm

Use me while you can
Outro 1
Dm
Em
G
C
D


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Chords
  • G

  • Dm

  • C

  • Bb

  • Dsus4

  • D

  • Ab

    4
  • Am

  • Csus2

  • Gsus4

  • F

  • Bm

    2
  • E

  • Em

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