Biting Your Tail Chords & Tabs
Iron And Wine Chords & Tabs
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This comes from this acoustic session that Sam did. It's a very simplified version.
Works for me, hopefully everyone else finds it helpful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrcPRw6yYU
Capo II
C
May your eyes be wide and seeing
F
May your learn from the view where you're kneeling
C
Know the fear of the world that you're feeling
G
Is the fear of a slave
C
May you know how the fight was started
F
Want as much for the snake as the garden
C G
Wear them both like a glove
C
That you can wave
C
May your mouth betray your wisdom
F
May you get what they fail to mention
C
May your love be your only religion
G
Preach it to us all
C
May you lose what you offer gladly
F
May you worship the time and it's passing
C G
stars won't ever wait for you
C
to watch them fall
Am
We're the smoke on a burnt horizon
F
We're the boat on a tide that's rising
C
Both the post and the pig you're untying
G
Butcher gone for the blade
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Am
Someday we may all be happy
F
Someday all make a face worth slapping
C
Someday we may be shocked to be laughing
G
At the way we behave
C
May your hands be strong and willing
F
May you know when to speak and to listen
C
May you find every friend that you're missing
G
There's no check in the mail
C
May you end up bruised and purple
F
Know that peace is the shape of a circle
C G
Round and round you go
C
Biting your tail
(Bridge: C F C G C)
Am
We're the children and the wind is whipping
F
The short hands on the clock still ticking
C
Both the egg and the red fox grinning
G
His belly full for the day
Am
Someday we may all want nothing
F
And all forget that we'll get what's coming
C
Someday all say the world was something
G
That we just couldn't change
C
May your tongue be soft and wicked
F
Know your part in the calf and the killing
C
See straight through the captain you're kissing
G
Helm loose in his hand
C
May your words be well worth stealing
F
Put your hand on your heart while singing
C G
Choirs sick of the song
C
But they still gotta stand
C G C