Chords for Emmylou Harris - Blackhawk

[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Well, I work the double shift _ _ _ in a bookstore [Eb] on St.
Clair
_ _ _ While they push the [Bb] burning _ _ gas in Nofasco's [F] stinking _ air
Where the [Bb] truth bites and stings, _ I remember just what [Eb] we were
_ _ _ As the noon [Bb] bell rings home, [F] black hawk and the white [Bb] winged god
_ _ _ Hold on till you're aching home, _ I'll wipe the liquor [Eb] from your lips
A _ small town hero [Bb] never dies, _ he fades a bit and [F] then he _ slips
Down into [Bb] the blast furnace, _ in the heat of the open [Eb] air
_ _ And at the punch clock [Bb] he remembers, _ [F] black hawk and the white [Bb] winged god
Leather, _ _ _ [Eb] leather, _ _ _ _ pointing up [Bb] into the sky
_ _ We fell down [F] to our _ _ knees, over there where the [Bb] grass grew _ high
The hunters [Eb] and the night, _ _ our faces turned [Bb] into the wind
_ _ Black hawk, [F] where are you now?
_ _ Black hawk and the white [Bb] winged god
We were [Eb] black hawk and the white [Bb] winged god
We [F] were [Bb] black hawk [F] and the white [Bb] winged _ god _ _ _ _
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_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ Do [F] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ you still have the ring I gave you, _ on the banks [Eb] of Lake Black Bay?
_ _ Where I felt certain [Bb] that I knew you, _ my cool and [F] distant ebony
_ _ _ Now we drink [Bb] at Liberty Station, _ _ under cover [Eb] of musketeers
_ _ Wrapped in the strong [Bb] arms of the Union, _ [F] _ raising [Bb] kids from raising hell _ _ _ _
[Eb] Leather, leather, _ _ _ _ up [Bb] into the sky
_ We fell [F] down to our knees, _ over there where the [Bb] grass grew high
_ _ The hunters [Eb] and the night, _ _ our faces [Bb] turned into the wind
_ Black hawk, [F] where are you now?
_ Black [Bb] hawk and the white winged god
We [Eb] were black hawk and the white [Bb] winged god
We [F] were black hawk and the white [Bb] winged god
We [Eb] were black hawk and the white [Bb] winged god
We [F] were black hawk and the white [Bb] winged god
We [Eb] were _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ black [F] _ hawk and the white [Bb] winged god _ _ _ _
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