{"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":951380,"song":"Kingfisher","artist":"Joanna Newsom","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11616705-kingfisher-chords-by-joanna-newsom/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/951380?type=chord","rating":4.57904,"votes":22,"content":"[tab][ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhose is the hand that I will hold[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhose is the face I will see[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhose is the name that I will call[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhen I Am called to meet thee[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIn this life who did you love[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBeneath the drifting ashes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBeneath the sheeting banks of air[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThat barrenly pour our rations[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhen I could speak it was too late[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nDidn't you hear me calling[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nDidn't you see my heart leap like a[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nPup in the constant barley[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIn this life where did you crouch[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen the sky had set to boiling[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBurning within seen from without[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIn your gut was a serpent coiling[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd for the sake of that pit of snakes[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFor whom did you allay your shyness[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd spend on your mercy and madness and grace[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIn a day beneath the bending cypress[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIt was not on principle, show, pro-heart, that you have got gall[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nA miracle: I can bear A lot but not that pall[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI can bear a lot but not that pall, kingfisher sound the alarm[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Dm[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSay, \"Sweet little darling, now come to my arms\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTell me all about the love you left on the farm\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHe was a kind and hurried man, with a heavy lip and a steady hand[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm7[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut he loved me just like a little child, a little child loves a little lamb[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThrown to the ground by something down there[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBitten by the bad air while the clouds tick[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTrying to read all the signs[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nPreparing for when the bombs hit[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Dsus2[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHung from the under-belly of[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]Dsus2[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe earth while the stars skid away below[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]Em[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nGormless and brakeless, gravel-loose falling[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nsilent as gavels in the snow[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]F[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nLa la la, la la la la, la la la la la la la, la, la[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI lay back and spit in my chaw[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nwrapped in the long arm of the law[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWho has seen it all[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI can bear a lot but not that pall[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI can bear a lot but not that pall, Kingfisher, cast your fly[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOh, lord it happens without even trying[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]F[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhen I sling a low look from my shuttering eye[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBlows rain upon the one you loved[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd though you were only sparring[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThere's blood in the eye unlace the glove[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSay honey, I am not sorry[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nStand here and name the one you loved[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBeneath the drifting ashes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd in naming rise above[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTime as it, flashing, passes[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOooh Oooh Oooh Oooh[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOooh Oooh Oooh Oooh[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWe came by the boatload and were immobilized[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWorshipping volcanoes, charting the loping skies[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe tides of the earth left us bound and calcified, and made us[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nObstinate as obsidian, unmoving save our eyes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nJust mooning and blinking, from faces marked with coal[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAsh cooling and shrinking, cracks loud as thunder rolling, I swear[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI know you, you know me, where have we met before, tell me true[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo whose authority do you consign your soul?[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI had a dream you came to me, said, \"You shall not do me harm anymore\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd with your knife you evicted my life from its little lighthouse on the seashore[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I saw that my blood had no bound, spreading in a circle like an atom bomb[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSoaking and felling everything in its path, and welling in my heart like a bird-bath[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIt is too short the day we are born we commence with our dying[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]F[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTrying to serve with the heart of a child, Kingfisher, lie with the lion[/tab]","plain_text":"Am  C  G  F Am\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAm  C  G  F Am\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAm  C  G  F Am\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\nAm  C  G  F Am\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAm  C  G  F Am","chords":["G","F","Am","C","D","A","F#m","Dm","Dm7","Dsus2","Em"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"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]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"Dm7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,1,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,1,1]},"Dsus2":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,2,0],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"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]}}}