Resurrection Fern by Iron and Wine
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Iron and Wine
Resurrection Fern
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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
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