Key: B major
Verse 1
A seamstress,
A princess,
A priestess,
A negress,
She knows her position
Verse 2
A willow,
A cello,
A pillow,
A bow
Verse 3
And also a physician
D
C
She takes your eyes
And mends your head
D
C
She draws the wine
And breaks the bread
And no truths to sell you
D
G
She's almost a woman
Verse 4
Eb
Bb
F
And zero she flies as the morning sighs
C
G
Spreads her wings like a seagull
Bb
F
Biding his time
F
G
Verse 5
He's a hawthorn,
A raven,
A scarecrow,
A haven
For moon-blessed thought
thought and opinion
The bones of the mountains
Lie deep in his forest religion
Verse 6
D
C
You will call his name when evening falls
D
C
And the ground sets hard
and the night wind calls
At times you will need him
F
D
G
Say you were almost his woman
Verse 7
Eb
Bb
F
And zero she flies as the morning sighs
C
G
Spreads her wings like a seagull
Bb
F
Biding his time
G
F
G
of an eagle
In the shuddering mad red
blood-let sunset
sunset
A tired man is leaving his cover
Are cut by the sounds
Of the vanishing feet of her lover
Verse 8
D
C
And the door slams shut
And the air grows tight
D
C
And her throat is gripped
By the hands of night
Is the clock on the shelf
F
D
G
As it ticks one day into another
Verse 9
Eb
Bb
F
And zero she sighs as the morning dies
C
G
With the broken wings of a seagull
Bb
F
sensing his time
C
G
F
G
But his eyes are the eyes of an eagle
At the pall of the day
the man of the mountain
Is nearing the end of his travel
On the westland bounds
And a footfall pounds in the gravel
Verse 10
D
C
Comes a knock three times
And the air grows still
D
C
As he steps inside from
the sudden chill
in the net of the night
F
D
G
For the coming of dawn to unravel
Verse 11
Eb
Bb
F
And zero she flies as the morning sighs
C
G
Spreads her wings like a seagull
Bb
F
Judging his time
C
G
And his eyes are the eyes of an eagle
Verse 12
Bb
F
zero she flies as the morning dies
C
G
Spreads her wings like a seagull
Bb
F
A man in his time
C
Bb
G
But his eyes are the eyes of an eagle
Outro 1
F
G
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TunerE A D G B E
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