{"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":568743,"song":"Thin Blue Flame","artist":"Josh Ritter","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11569785-thin-blue-flame-chords-by-josh-ritter/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/568743?type=chord","rating":4.76775,"votes":26,"content":"[Intro]\r\n| [ch]C[/ch]   | [ch]F[/ch]   | [ch]C[/ch]   | [ch]F[/ch]   |\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  I became a thin blue flame[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  Polished on a mountain range[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  And over hills and fields I flew[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  Wrapped up in a royal blue[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI flew over Royal City last night[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nA bullfighter on the horns of a new moon’s light[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nCaesar’s ghost I saw the war-time tides[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe prince of Denmark’s father still and quiet[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe whole world was looking to get drowned[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTrees were a fist shaking themselves at the clouds[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI looked over curtains and it was then that I knew[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat only a full house gonna make it through[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  I became a thin blue wire[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  That held the world above the fire[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  And so it was I saw behind[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  Heaven’s just a thin blue line[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIf God’s up there he’s in a cold dark room[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe heavenly host are just the cold dark moons[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nHe bent down and made the world in seven days[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd ever since he’s been a’walkin' away[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nMixing with nitrogen in lonely holes[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhere neither seraphim or raindrops go[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI see an old man wandering the halls alone[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBut only a full house gonna make a home[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  But I became a thin blue stream[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  The smoke between asleep and dreams[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  And in that clear blue undertow[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  I saw Royal City far below[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBorders soft with refugees[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nStreets a’swimming with amputees[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIt’s a Bible or a bullet they put over your heart[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt’s getting harder and harder to tell them apart[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe days are nights and the nights are long[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBeating hearts blossom into walking bombs[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd those still looking in the clear blue sky for a sign[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nGet missiles from so high they might as well be divine[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nNow the dogs are howling at our door[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSinging bout vengeance like it’s the joy of the Lord[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBringing justice to the enemies not the other way round[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThey’re guilty when killed and they’re killed where they’re found[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIf what’s loosed on earth will be loosed up on high[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt’s a Hell of a Heaven we must go to when we die[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWhere even Laurel begs Hardy for vengeance please[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe fat man is crying on his hands and his knees[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBack in the peacetime he caught roses on the stage[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNow he twists indecision takes bourbon for rage[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nLead pellets peppering aluminum[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHalcyon, laudanum and Opium[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSings kiss thee hardy this poisoned cup[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHis winding sheet is busy winding up[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIn darkness he looks for the lights that have died[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut you need faith for the same reasons that it’s so hard to find[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd this whole thing is headed for a terrible wreck[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd like good tragedy that’s what we expect[/tab]\r\n\r\n| [ch]C[/ch]   | [ch]F[/ch]   | [ch]C[/ch]   | [ch]F[/ch]   |\r\n| [ch]C[/ch]   | [ch]F[/ch]   | [ch]C[/ch]   | [ch]Am[/ch]  |\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAt night I make plans for a city laid down[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nLike the hips of a girl on the spring covered ground[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSpirals and capitals like the twists of a script[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nStreets named for heroes that could almost exist[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe fruit trees of Eden and the gardens that seem[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTo float like the smoke from the lithium dream[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]F[/ch]\r\nCedar trees growing in the cool of the squares[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe young women walking in the portals of prayer[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd the future glass buildings and the past an address[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd the weddings in pollen and the wine bottomless[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd all wrongs forgotten and all vengeance made right[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe suffering verbs put to sleep in the night[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe future descending like a bright chandelier[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the world just beginning and the guests in good cheer[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIn Royal City I fell into a trance[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOh it’s hell to believe there ain’t a hell of a chance[/tab]\r\n\r\n| [ch]Am[/ch]  | [ch]G[/ch]   | [ch]Am[/ch]  | [ch]G[/ch]   |\r\n| [ch]Am[/ch]  | [ch]G[/ch]   | [ch]Am[/ch]  | [ch]G[/ch]   |\r\n| [ch]C[/ch]   | [ch]F[/ch]   | [ch]C[/ch]   | [ch]F[/ch]   |\r\n\r\n[Chorus]  \r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  I woke beneath a clear blue sky[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  The sun a shout the breeze a sigh[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                   [ch]F[/ch]\r\n  My old hometown and the streets I knew[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  Were wrapped up in a royal blue[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]  \r\n[tab]                                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI heard my friends laughing out across the fields[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe girls in the gloaming and the birds on the wheel[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe raw smell of horses and the warm smell of hay[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nCicadas electric in the heat of the day[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nA run of Three Sisters and the flush of the land[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd the lake was a diamond in the valley’s hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe straight of the highway and the scattered out hearts[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThey were coming together they pulling apart[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd angels everywhere were in my midst[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIn the ones that I loved in the ones that I kissed[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI wondered what it was I’d been looking for up above[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHeaven is so big there ain’t no need to look up[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSo I stopped looking for royal cities in the air[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOnly a full house gonna have a prayer[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n| [ch]C[/ch]   | [ch]F[/ch]   | [ch]C[/ch]   | [ch]F[/ch]   | x6","plain_text":"[Intro]\n| C   | F   | C   | F   |\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n| C   | F   | C   | F   |\n| C   | F   | C   | Am  |\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n| Am  | G   | Am  | G   |\n| Am  | G   | Am  | G   |\n| C   | F   | C   | F   |\n\n[Chorus]  \n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\n| C   | F   | C   | F   | x6","chords":["C","F","Am","A","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"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]}}}