BLUEBIRD
As recorded by Pokey LaFarge
(From the 2020 Album ROCK BOTTOM RHAPSODY)
Intro
[Dm]
Verse 1
[Dm]
I was a razor blade, you took me to the edge
[Gm7] [Gm] [Gm7] [Gm]
I did her dirty word, like hangman count their dead
[A]
Her veins pump through me flowing, blue not red
[Dm] [A7]
Bluebird
Verse 2
[Dm]
She′s sentimental still wears her ex-boyfriend's perfume
[Gm7] [Gm] [Gm7] [Gm]
She′s melancholic, yeah, that way the French girls do
[A] [A7]
She said write a song for me, call it "Why So Blue?"
[Dm] [A7]
Oh I sing for you, bluebird
Chorus
[Dm] [Dm/C#] [Dm/C] [Dm/B] [Dm/B]
She got the thing that give writers the word
[Dm/B] [C#7#5] A#13#11 [A#7]
The singers sing them in the songs you heard
[Am]
She look good on me, should look good on you
[Dm] [Dm/C#] [Dm/C] [Dm/B] [Dm/B]
She got the soul that give the band the groove
[Dm/B] [C#7#5] A#13#11 [A#7]
She drive the beat that makes the dancers move
[A7]
What she can do, only a woman can do
[Dm]
Bluebird
[Dm]
Bluebird
[A]
Bluebird
[A7]
Bluebird
[Gm] [Dm] [A7]
I thank you for this song I sing, bluebird
N.C.
Yeah
Verse 3
[Dm]
She is a sunrise before the fog clears
[Gm7] [Gm] [Gm7] [Gm]
She's broken glass after too many beers
[A]
She's laissez faire, lost but never scared
[Dm] [A7]
Oh take me there, bluebird
[Out-Chorus]
[Dm] [Dm/C#] [Dm/C] [Dm/B] [Dm/B]
She got the thing that give writers the word
[Dm/B] [C#7#5] A#13#11 [A#7]
The singers sing them in the songs you heard
[Am]
She look good on me, should look good on you
[Dm] [Dm/C#] [Dm/C] [Dm/B] [Dm/B]
She got the soul that give the band the groove
[Dm/B] [C#7#5] A#13#11 [A#7]
She drive the beat that makes the dancers move
[A7]
What she can do, only my woman can do
[Dm]
Bluebird
[Dm]
Bluebird
[A]
Bluebird
[A7]
Bluebird
[Gm] [Dm] [A]
I thank you for this song I sing, bluebird
[Dm]
Bluebird
[Dm]
Bluebird
[A]
Bluebird
[A7]
Bluebird
[Gm] [Dm] [A7]
I thank you for this song I sing, bluebird