Andrew Bird - First Song Chords

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Then it was dusk in Illinois a small boy
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After an afternoon of carting dung hung
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Hung on a rail fence, a sapped thing
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So weary to crying
 
 
[Bridge]
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Dark was growing tall
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He began to hear the pond frogs all calling on his ear
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They were calling on his ear
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They were calling on his ear with what seemed their joy
 
 
[Verse 2]
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Soon the sound was pleasant for a boy
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Listening in the smoky dusk and nightfall of Illinois
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And from the fields two small boys came
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Bearing cornstalk violins
 
 
[Bridge]
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So they rubbed the cornstalk bows with resins
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And the three just sat there scr*ping of the joy
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Of their joy, they're scr*ping of the joy
 
 
[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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It was now fine music, the frogs and the boys did
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In the towering Illinois twilight
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Make and into dark in spite of a shoulder's ache
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A boys hunched body loved out of a stalk
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The first song of his happiness and the song woke his heart
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To the darkness and sadness of joy
 
 
[Bridge]
Em       Em/F#   Em
Dark was growing tall
         Em/F#       Em             A
He began to hear the pond frogs all calling on his ear
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They were calling on his ear
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They were calling on his ear with what seemed their joy
 
 
[Outro]
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