Resurrection Fern by Iron and Wine
-------------------------- Iron and Wine Resurrection Fern -------------------------- Capo V Hammer-on 2nd lowest string of C and G Also both strings on em Intro: C x4 em x4 F F C C G x4 (Below, each letter indicates doing the pattern twice.) C C em em In our days, we will live like our ghosts will live: F C G G Pitching glass at the cornfield crows and folding clothes C C em em Like stubborn boys across the road we'll keep everything: F C G G Grandma's gun and the black bear claw that took her dog C C em em When Sister Lowery says, "Amen" we won't hear anything. F C G G The ten-car trains will take that word, that fledgling bird C C em em And the fallen house across the way, it'll keep everything: F C G G The baby's breath, our bravery wasted and our shame [Chorus] F C And we'll undress beside the ashes of the fire F G Both our tender bellies wound in baling wire F C All the more a pair of underwater pearls F G (slow walk up) Than the oak tree and its resurrection fern (a tempo) Chords only C x4 em x4 F F C C G x4 C C em em In our days, we will say what our ghosts will say: F C G We gave the world what it saw fit and what'd we get? C C em em Like stubborn boys with big green eyes, we'll see everything: F C G G In the timid shade of the autumn leaves and the buzzard's wing [Chorus] F C And we'll undress beside the ashes of the fire F G Our tender bellies, all wound around in baling wire F C All the more a pair of underwater pearls F G (slow walk up to C) Than the oak tree and its resurrection fern End: C x4 em x4 F F C C G x4 walk up to C ------------------------------------------------------ comments to: beroe at mac dot com
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