{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1827365,"song":"As The Crow Flies","artist":"Will Varley","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11403548-as-the-crow-flies-chords-by-will-varley/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1827365?type=chord","rating":4.48302,"votes":6,"content":"As the Crow Flies - Will Varley\r\n\r\nCapo: 3rd Fret\r\n\r\n[Intro]\r\n\r\n[ch]C[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen that bird fell from its nest,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMe and my sister did our best,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                    [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTo feed it earthworms everyday,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAfter school we watched it fly away,[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]         \r\nAnd I miss my mother my old room and the sound of the rain[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAs it fell on the rooftops and ran along the drains[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]                         [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut sometimes it feels like an ocean that railway line[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                              [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSometimes it feels like we're living in darker times[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]B[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI'm heading back home for a couple of days[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI can't imagine all that much has changed[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSee that town it moves with the colour of the sky[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThere's a face I recognise[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAs the crow flies[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell someone's opened up a cafe on the river's edge,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]                                  [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI will go there in the summer rent some boats out, we said,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThose kids grew up in the beat of the old bass drum,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFrom son to father, from father back to son,[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]F[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat cat she used to run rings, always playing tricks on the dog,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]F[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe'd be sitting in the kitchen rolling round all covered in mud,[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Am[/ch]                          [ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNow they're buried in the garden in the shadow of the hawthorn tree,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                              [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFarewell travellers, may your souls always be free[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]B[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch] \r\nWell we always get together this time of year,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAlways wish I could tell them what they're waiting to hear,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]   \r\nBut who said time moves in straight lines,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAt least I can say I tried,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAs the crow flies[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 7]\r\n\r\n[tab]                 [ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe said \"you're drinking too much, \"I said, \"yes I probably am\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI find it easier to forget what I can't understand[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]                  \r\nLike how all those snakes made it past the lions so fast[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd how the future turned so quickly into the past[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 8]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]B[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNow the cafe by the river's all boarded up,[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThere's an autumn wind blowing through the old horse chestnuts,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I saw him in a dream, said \"he's doing alright,\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI can see him in your eyes[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAs the crow flies[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]   [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAs the crow flies[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 9]\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]F[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut sometimes it feels like everything's been done before,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe same ideas and the same four chords,[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWe're still leaving in the morning for to cross the sea[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nCos not everything has been done by me[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 10]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI remember that boy in the fading August light[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWe watched that fledgling bird take its first flight[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI hope that I have done you proud[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I promise to wake up and fight[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 11]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]B[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOn the roads that we travel on the oceans we sail,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIn the jaws of the dragon in the belly of the whale,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYeah I always keep you by my side[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWe'll get old and we'll get wise,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]  \r\nAs the crow flies,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnywhere any time,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAs the crow flies[/tab]","plain_text":"As the Crow Flies - Will Varley\n\nCapo: 3rd Fret\n\n[Intro]\n\nC      C\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 6]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 7]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 8]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 9]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 10]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 11]","chords":["C","F","Am","E","B","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}