Iron And Wine - Biting Your Tail Chords & Tabs

Capo 2nd. Based off of his 4AD session video on Youtube and his website.


C
  May your eyes be wide and seeing
F
  May you 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
  And want as much from the snake as the garden
C                       G                   C
  Wear them both like a glove that you can wave


C
  May your mouth betray your wisdom
F
  May you get what they failed 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                       C
  Stars wont ever wait for you to watch them fall


(One Strum each)
C
  We’re the smoke on a burned 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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(Normal)
C
  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 tongue be something wicked
F
  Know your part in the calf and the killing
C                           
  See straight through the captain you’re kissing
G
  Hound loose in his hand


C
  May your words be well worth stealing
F
  Put your hand on your heart when singing
C                          G                             C
  The choir’s sick of the song but they’ve still got to stand.


(One strum)
C
  Little children, the wind is whipping
F
  Short hands on a clock still ticking
C
  Both the egg and the red fox grinning
G
  His belly full for the day


C
  Someday we may all want nothing
F
  And all forget that we’ll get what’s coming
C
  Someday I’ll say the world was something
G
  That we just couldn’t change


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 there bruised and purple
F
  Know that peace is the shape of a circle
C                       G                C
  Around and around you go, biting your tail