Chords for Rhiannon Giddens & Dirk Powell - We Could Fly (Live on eTown)

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[Am] _ [C] You know, I guess that's one of the reasons why making the record was so _ [Eb] [C] easy, because
our [G] songwriting approaches are similar.
Like I get [Am] _
these [F] inspirations from history and from [C] stories and from _ things that I really
think need to be highlighted.
And the [F] way that [C] I think we both approach it is really trying to get out of the way
of what [G] the story [Am] is and what the inspiration is and what the sort of [Cm] greater thing other than yourself.
So I think we both [C] found that [Am] place of just, [C] you know, get the ego out of there and let
the song find itself.
You know, like We Could Fly was like that.
It was [G] like, you know, sometimes when you write a song with [A] somebody like, oh, I wrote
that line and [G] they wrote that line and I wrote, you know, [C] and with that I don't remember who
wrote what, like words, music.
[G] And it's just, you know, I [Am] feel like that's [C] fairly unusual [F] to be able to [C] find that place.
And so that's something I think is really valuable about our collaboration. _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Mama, _ dear Mama, _ _ look in yonder tree. _ _ _
See that pretty [Am] little sparrow _ [F] looking _ [C] back at me.
_ _ She can soar above the cloud _ _ up in the sky. _ _
She [Em] can fly [Am] away from here. _
[F] Why oh why [C] can't I? _
_ _ [Am] _ _ [C] _ Daughter, dear daughter, _ _ I'll tell you something true.
_ _ _ Remember [Em] Granny [A] Liza?
[Am] _ _ [F] Well, every night [C] she flew.
_ _ They tried [Em] to [Am] keep her down, [C] but there [F]
was nothing [C] they could do. _ _ _
_ She could fly. _ _
_ _ She [Am] could [C] fly. _
_ _ _ She [F] could slip the bar [C] _ and [G] rise so high.
_ _ She [C] could fly across the [G] river, [C] the spirit [B] in [Am] her head.
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Searching, always [C] _ searching _ [G]
for the promised [F] land. _ _
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_ _ _ _ [G] _ [C] Mama, _ dear Mama, _ _ _ _ tell me more.
I _ _ feel a [Am] trembling in my arms [F] I've never felt [C] before. _ _ _
Daughter, _ dear daughter, _ _ listen _ what I say.
Your granny [G] _ [Am] always told me _
[F] [C] you'd feel that way someday. _ _
That [Em] every time [Am] she looked at [C] you, she [F] saw the [C] old time ways.
_ When we could fly, _ _ _ _ we [Em] [Am] could [C] fly.
_ _ _ _ We [F] could slip the [C] bar and _ _ _ [G] rise so high. _ _ _
We [C] could fly [F] [C] across the mountains _ together [G] _ [Am] hand in _ hand.
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[F] Searching, [C] always _ searching _
[G] for the promised [F] _ land.
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Mama, dear Mama, _ _ _ come and stand by me.
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[C] I [Em] feel a [Am] lightness in my feet, _ [F] a longing to [C] be free. _ _
_ My heart, it is a shaking _ _ _ _ with an old, old _ song.
I hear the voices [Am] saying _ it's [F] _ time for [C] moving on.
_ _ _ _ She took her mama by the hand.
[Fm] They rose [C] up in the air. _
They held each other [Am] tight and then [F] they flew [C] away from there.
_ _ They [G] held each [Am] other tight [C] and then [F] they flew [C] away from _ there.
_ _ They could fly, _ _ _ _ [Em] they [Am] could [C] fly. _ _ _ _
[F] They could slip the [C] bonds of earth and [G] rise so high. _ _
_ _ [C] They could fly across the ocean _ together _ [G]
[Am] hand in _ hand. _ _ _
[C] _ _ [F] _ Searching, [C] always _ searching _ _ [G] for the promised [F] land.
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