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Tallest Man On Earth : Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird
2010

  1. Little River
  2. The Dreamer
  3. Like The Wheel
    +1
  4. Tangle In This Trampled Wheat
    +1
  5. Thrown Right At Me

Little River

Tuning: CFCFCF
Capo:
IV
Chord shapes: 5x400x 5x500x 0x400x x5200x 2x200x x2250x
Intro (x2)
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Part 1
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 Well there is something 'bout the quiet, uplifting laughter You've just spent so many years chased by a cloud, oh It's taken you so far, far past the cliff's edge And now your feet just poke around to feel the ground, oh
Part 2
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 You say "is this a joke," I float "come on now" You see there's something down below Just let me fall to be of use, make me the rainstorm Just a piece of hail, you know
Part 3
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 You said, "all the time it needs to take And all the time there is a shiver from some fallen tear But is it on this lack of fallen luck To dream of things like a little river to the golden ground?"
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Repeat Part 1
And there is something 'bout the quiet surprise in darkness You just sing about your own death in your closet You stumble out into the pitch-black hallway You think you've lost so many times though it's not war yet
Repeat Part 2
You say "are these my eyes?" You said "come on now, already lost my sense to feel" But there is always someone out there who will listen And then there's nothing but a dream
Repeat Part 3
You said, "all the time it needs to take And all the time there is a shiver from some fallen tear But is it on this lack of fallen luck To dream of things like a little river to the golden ground?"
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And there is something 'bout the leaving of a lover You think you knew through all the year's you've been a woman And he's stepping out and walks out of the garden Where all the lilies and all the weeds came from his cold hand
Repeat Part 2
You say "is this my life," you said "come on now" You see the diamonds when you yell That let you stay in all the corners I have been here But now you travel, go to hell
Repeat Part 3
You said, "all the time it needs to take And all the time there is a shiver from some fallen tear But is it on this lack of fallen luck To dream of things like a little river to the golden ground?"
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The Dreamer

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C
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Dm
G
C
F
I'm just a dreamer but I'm hanging on
Dm
G
C
F
Though I am nothing big to offer
Dm
G
C
F
I watch the birds, how they dive and then gone
E
F
Gsus4
G
It's like nothing in this world's ever still And I'm just a shadow of your thoughts of me But sun is setting, shadows growing A long cast figure will turn into night It's like nothing in this world ever sleeps
C
F
G
C
Oh, sometimes the blues is just a passing bird
Am
F
Gsus4
G
And why can't that always be?
C
F
G
C
Tossing aside from your birches crown
Am
F
Gsus4
G
Just enough dark to see
Dm
G
C
F
How you're the light over me
Dm7
G
C
F
And by your side, girl, where the acres grow Into the strong and stunning meadow A cowboy stumbling in the finest field And nothing good out there won't be yours Oh, sometimes the blues is just a passing bird And why can't that always be? Tossing aside from your birches crown Just enough dark to see
C
F
G
C
How you're the light over me
Am
F
Gsus4
G
C
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G
C
Am
F
Gsus4
G
Sometimes the blues is just a passing bird And why can't that always be? Tossing aside from your birches crown Just enough dark to see
Dm
G
C
F
How you're the light over me
Dm7
G
C
F

Like The Wheel

Tuning: DADEAD (Open Dsus2)
Capo:
IV
D 000200 Bm x20200 A7sus2 x02300
D/c# x40000 Bm/a x00200 A(ii) x02500
G 500500 Em 222000 A(vii) 777000
D
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Bm
(
/a
) Oh I wish I was the sparrow in your kid's eye
G
A7sus2
D
That could fly above this summer all day long
D
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Bm
(
/a
) On an island in the heart he has to carry
G
A7sus2
D
Past the many you have let into your song
G
A(ii)
D
G
And I said oh my Lord why am I not strong?
G
A(ii)
D
G
Like the wheel that keeps travellers travelling on?
Em
A(vii)
D
Like the wheel that will take you home? And in the forest someone is whispering to a tree now This is all I am so please don't follow me And it's your brother in the shaft that I'm a-swinging Please let the kindness of forgetting set me free And he said oh my Lord why am I not strong? Like the wheel that keeps travellers travelling on? Like the wheel that will take you home? And on this Sunday someone's sitting down to wonder Where the hell among these mountains will I be? There's a cloud behind the cloud to which I'm yelling I could hear you sneak around so easily And I said oh my Lord why am I not strong? Like the branch that keeps hangmen hanging on? Like the branch that will take me home?

Tangle In This Trampled Wheat

Tuning: EADGBD (Drop High D)
Capo:
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G
And so many days of longing now
Em
D/f#
Why should it ever be this far?
Am
G
D/f#
Where I get frightened I could never gather birds
C
D/f#
Enough to carry round your heart But I see traces of your thoughts out here I see a sight, I hear a sound I only comfort in the brittleness of days When I can hold what I just found
C
G
D/f#
Em
It's in the untired eyes of the laughing child
C
G
D/f#
In the dirtiest sweater he owns
C
G
D/f#
Em
Early sun-warmed pine and all those lifelike sins
C
G
D/f#
That will pull out the memories to show
D/f#
I'm not leavin' alone
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D/f#
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I'm not leavin' alone If just that weather-beaten plane was here Haven't seen it since I came Can only wonder if it's near or in the skies When this damn city sounds the same And sometimes I'm just a tangle in this trampled wheat Circle like a losing dog If just tonight that I could be where you are near And just forget where I am lost It's the untired eyes of the laughing child In the dirtiest sweater he owns Early sun-warmed pine and all those lifelike sins That will pull out the memories to show I'm not leavin' alone I'm not leavin' alone |
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Thrown Right At Me

Capo:
V
C/G 302010 F#dim x5656x
G7 323010 Em7 022030
G* 320030
C
C/g
C
C/g
F
C
Jump 'long the creekside, the rock's crooked line
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F
C
Fun curls your hair and The days open wide
C
F
G7
C
And horses trot faster till sparrows fall down
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F
C
But you just fall laughing, to the snow on the ground
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G7
C
F
You grew up by playing the valley so wild
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(
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) And that's why you're so beautiful now
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 And, dancing you back to the lonesome, young mare You call up her owner; say your heart will be there You'll build a collection of scars on your knees To learn how to count the impossible trees You grew up by climbing the birches so high And that's why you're so beautiful now And we live so close that we probably seen The same bird, the same time, they solemnly scream One day, I'll find just that friend who can see All this weird beauty thrown right at me Growing by playing the valley so wild And that's why you're so beautiful now