Chords for Patti Smith- Birdland

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_ _ [B] _ _ His father died, _ [A] _ left him a little farm in New England.
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All the long black funeral cars [E] left the scene and the boy was just standing there [F#m] alone, _
[B] _ looking at the shiny red tractor, _ [A] _ him and his daddy. _
[F#m] He used to [B] sit inside and circle the blue fields and grease the night.
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_ [A] _ _ _ [B] It was as if [C#] someone had spread butter on all the [A] fine points of the stars,
because when he looked up they started [Am] to [B] slip.
_ _ [C] Then he put his head in the [Am] crooks of his arms [E] and he started [F#m] to _ [B] _ _ drift, _
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drift to [B] the river, the _ [A] river, _ the _ river,
[B]
she was _ _ laughing [A] _ _ _ _ and [B] he went _ inside [A] the bed and saw [B] his _ daddy
and the [A] control _ boards _ [B] _ streaming with the [A] light.
And he saw [B] his daddy _ and [A] the control _ _ boards in [B] his feathers,
he [A] breathed in the _ _ _ [B] air, he was _ mad, [A] he was mad, [F#m] _ _ _ [B] _
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he _ was _ [A] mad, he was mad, he was [F#m] mad. _ _
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_ [B] _ Little boy's face [Bm] lit up with [E] such naked joy,
[A] that [B] the sun burned around his lids and his eyes were like [F#m] two suns. _ _
_ [B] White lids, white opals, seeing everything just a little bit too [A] clearly,
he looked around and there was no [B] black ship in sight,
no black funeral [A] cars, nothing, except for him,
waving, [B] fell on his knees, looked up [A] and cried out,
[F#m] _ _ _ [B] _ _
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I'm _ here [A] _
alone, _ take my [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ hand, tell her [B] that I can't be of [A]
your share,
let _ [B] the sheets _ not _
[A] _ _ open and [B]
I'll go _ inside [A] the _ bed,
where _ [B] _
you are _ [A] not [E] human.
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_ _ You are not [A] human, _ _ [B] _ _
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but no, _ _ _ _
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_ [B] nobody there,
except for the [A] birds around the New [F#m] England farm,
and [B] they gathered in all directions like [A] roses,
they scattered and they were like conifers grass,
[B] coming together into the head of [A] a shaman bouquet, _
_ [B] _ slit his nose and all [A] the others went shooting,
and he saw [B] the lights of traffic, and _ [E] the blake grabbing at his [B] cheeks,
taking out his neck, all his [A] limbs, everything was twisted,
and he [B] said, I won't give up, won't give [A] up, don't let me give up,
I won't give [B] up, come here, let me go real [A] fast,
take me up, quick, take me [B] up, _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ tell [B] her that I _ _ _
[A] can't be of your share,
_ _ [B] let the sheets not _ [A] _
_ open and [B]
I'll go _ _ inside [A] the bed,
where _ [B]
you are _ _ not [A] _
_ human.
_ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] I'm helium raven, this movie is [A]
mine,
so he cried [B] out as he stretched the sky,
pushing it [Am] all out like a Dick's [D] cartoon,
am [B] I alone, this generation, _ [E] we'll just be,
[B] dreaming of animation, night and day,
[E] it won't let up, won't let up, and I [B] see them coming in,
oh I couldn't hear them [A] before,
_ _ _ it's a [B] heart, _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ [B]
moving in like black ships,
[A] then we're moving in streams [F#m] of them,
and he [B] put up his hands and he said, it's me, [A] it's me,
I'll give you my eyes, take [B] me up, oh now, [A] please, take me up,
I'm helium [B]
raven, waiting for you,
[A] please, take me up, don't leave [B] me here,
the sun, the sun, [A] the cross,
like the shape of a [B] tortured woman,
the truth, the shape of a [A] tortured woman,
the mother, standing in the [B] doorway,
letting her sons, no longer [A] presidents,
but prophets, they're all dreaming,
[B] they're gonna bear the prophet,
he's gonna run through the [A]
fields,
dreaming, an animation, it's all there,
[B]
split of the soul, it's gonna come out like a black [A]
bouquet,
shining like a fit that's gonna [B] shoot him up,
like, like Mohamed Farid, [A]
take them up, up, up,
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I'm going up, I'm going up, [B] I'm going, take me up,
I'm going up, I'm going up, [A] down, go up, go up, go up,
go up, up, [B] up, up, _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ up, [B] up, up, up, up, up, [E] up, up, _ _ _ [B]
up, _ _ _ _ [A] _
up,
_ We [B] go _ _ inside [A] of each other.
_ [B]
We are _ not [A] _
[F#m] human.
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We are [A] not _ _ [F#m] human.
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