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Date: 1/30/98; 3:25:56 AM
From: rickl1@IX.netcom.com (Rick L)
Subject: CRD: Songbird      Emmylou Harris       Chords/Lyrics

Emmylou Harris    My Songbird written by Jesse Winchester

Brian  Ahern   acoustic guitar
Albert Lee     mandolin
James Burton   electric guitar
Hank DeVito    steel guitar
Glen D Hardin  piano
Emory Gordy    bass
John Ware      drums

http://www.nashville.net/~kate/

C             F      C
Songbird in a golden cage
C        G       C
She'd prefer the blue
F               C      G      C
How I crave the liquor of her song
C                 F       C
Poor bird who has done no harm
C         G         C
What harm could she do
F               C        G        C
She shall be my prisoner her life long
F                     C
My songbird wants her freedom
    F                 C
Now don't you think I know
C           Dm      Em    F
But I can't find it in myself
   Am         G    Am
To let my songbird go
F            G       C
I just can't let her go

SOLO

C                  F         C
O Lord, when your jeweler's eye
        G       C
Peers into my soul
F             C    G        C
O Lord, I am overcome with shame
C                  F  C
Take me, Lord, and purify
C       G      C  
Heal me with a word
F             C       G        C
Lord, I beg a gift I dare not claim
F                     C
My songbird wants her freedom
    F                 C
Now don't you think I know?
C           Dm      Em    F
But I can't find it in myself
   Am         G    Am
To let my songbird go
F            G       C
I just can't let her go

>From Emmylou Harris "Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town"
Warner Brothers Records 1978
Forth Floor Music Inc/Hot Kitchen(ASCAP)