Chords for Richard Shindell There Goes Mavis Redit with sound desk mix

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ More like a visitation, I guess.
_ [Em] _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [B] _ [B] The beach at [Em] Newcomb Hollow, _ last days of [E] August.
_ [E]
The other side of Flowtide, the sun [G] is high, the sun is high.
Yeah, [B] yeah, yeah.
_ [Em] _ We're kneeling in the wet sand, _ propping up a [B] wall breach.
_ [E] Quick before the next wave, [G] rushes in, [B] rushes in, yeah.
[Em] _ _ [G] The moat around the castle [F#m] is filling up with [F#] water,
[E] but hope springs eternal.
_ [F#] All hands ready, [G] here it comes.
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ [B] Behind us in the [C#] crowd, _ some kind of commotion.
_ [A] A little girl is shouting, [G] fly away, fly away, yeah.
[C#] _ _ [Em] We pay no attention, the castle is in danger.
_ [A]
The [E] ramparts are sinking, [G] we dig on, we dig on. _
[Em] _ _ _ [G] Out of the blue, [F#m] there's an orange canary,
[G] on our driftwood flagpole.
[C#] _
Shovels down boys, [G] step away.
_ _ [Em] _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B]
The little girl [Em] comes running, _ she can't be more than seven.
_ [A]
And her mother is behind her, [G] with a cage, [B] with a cage.
[Em] _ _ And her mother is explaining, _ baby it's just too far.
[E] And she'll never survive here, [G] on her own, on [E] her own.
[C#] _ _ [G] But the little girl's not listening, [F#] she's talking to the bird.
_ [G]
Mavis, you can trust me, [B] now's your big chance.
[D] Fly away, _ [A] _ _ _ [Bm] fly _ _ [G] away.
_ _ _ [D]
If _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ [F#] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [B] _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [Em]
Mavis has been [Em] listening, _ she isn't letting on.
_ [A] We're all just waiting, [Em] no one moves, no one moves.
_ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ [B] And then comes the big [C#] one, _ swamping the castle.
[E] _
But no one is watching, [Em] when it falls, when it falls. _
_ _ [G] We're following the progress, [F#] of a little bulbs of orange.
[G] On the long horizon, _ _ [B]
there goes Mavis.
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [Em] _
[G] There goes [D] _ Mavis, _ [A] _
_ _ [Bm] fly away.
_ _ _ [G] _
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_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [Em] _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ [Dm] _ [G] Thank you very much. _
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Thank you. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Thank you. _ _