Kingfisher
Kingfisher

Kingfisher chords by Joanna Newsom

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Guitar
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  • Verse 1
    Whose 
    is 
    the 
    hand 
    that 
    will 
    hold

    Whose 
    is 
    the face 
    will 
    see? 

    Whose 
    is 
    the name 
    that 
    will 
    call 

    When 
    am 
    called 
    to 
    meet 

    thee? 

    Interlude 1

    Verse 2
    In 
    this 
    life 
    who 
    did 
    you 
    love 

    Beneath 
    the drifting 
    ashes? 

    Beneath 
    the sheet
    ing 
    banks 
    of 
    air 

    That 
    bar
    renly 
    bore 
    our 
    ration

    s? 

    Interlude 2

    Verse 3
    When 
    I could 
    speak 
    it 
    was 
    too 
    late 

    Didn't 
    you 
    hear 
    me 
    calling? 

    Didn't 
    you see 
    my 
    heart 
    leap 
    like 

    A pup 
    in 
    the constant 

    bar
    ley? 

    Interlude 3

    Verse 4
    In 
    this 
    new 
    life 
    where 
    did 
    you 
    crouch 

    When 
    the sky 
    had set 
    to 
    boiling? 

    Burning 
    within, 
    seen 
    from 
    without 

    And 
    your 
    gut 
    was 
    a ser
    pent 
    coil
    ing 

    Verse 5
    An
    d for 
    the sake 
    of 
    that 
    pit 
    of 
    snakes 

    For 
    whom 
    did 
    you 
    allay 

    your 
    shyness? 

    And spend 
    all 
    your 
    mercy 

    and 
    madness 
    and 
    grace 

    In a 
    day 
    beneath 
    the 

    bending 
    cypress 

    It 
    was 
    Verse 6
    not 
    on 
    principle 

    Show, 
    pro- 
    heart 
    that 
    you 
    have 
    got 
    gall 

    A miracle 

    can 
    bear 
    lot 
    but 
    not 
    that 
    pall 

    can 
    bear 
    lot, 
    but 
    not 
    that 
    pall 

    Kingfish
    er sound 
    the alarm 

    Say sweet 
    little 
    darling 

    now 
    come 
    to 
    my 
    arms 

    Tell 
    me 
    all 
    about 
    the 
    love 

    you 
    left 
    on 
    the farm 

    Verse 7
    He 
    was 
    kind, 
    un
    hurried 
    man 

    With 
    heavy 
    lip 
    and 
    steady 
    hand 

    But he 
    loved 
    me 
    just 
    like 
    a little 
    child 

    Like 
    a little 
    child 
    loves 

    a little 
    lamb 

    Verse 8
    Thrown 
    to 
    the 
    ground 
    by 

    something 
    down 
    there 

    Bitten 
    by 
    the 
    bad 
    air 
    while 

    the clouds 
    tick 

    Trying 
    to 
    read 
    all 
    the signs 

    Prepar
    ing 
    for 
    when 
    the 
    bombs 

    hit 

    Interlude 4

    Verse 9
    Hung 
    from 
    the 
    underbelly 

    of 
    the 
    earth 

    While 
    the stars 
    skid 
    away 
    be
    low 

    Gormless and 

    brakeless, gravel- 
    loose 

    Falling 
    silent 
    as 
    gavels in 

    the snow 


    Verse 10
    lay 
    back 
    and 

    spit 
    in my 
    chaw 

    Wrapped 
    in 
    the 
    long 
    arm 
    of 
    the law 

    Who 
    has 
    seen 
    it 
    all 

    can 
    bear 
    lot 
    but 
    not 
    that 
    pall 

    can 
    bear 
    lot 
    but 
    not 
    that 
    pall 

    Kingfisher, 
    cast 
    your 
    fly 

    lord, 
    it 
    happens 
    without 
    even 
    trying 

    When 
    sling 
    low 
    look 
    from 

    my 
    shuttering eye 

    Verse 11
    Blows 
    rain 
    upon 
    the 
    one 
    you 
    loved 

    And 
    though 
    you 
    were 
    only 
    sparring 

    There's 
    blood 
    on 
    the 
    eye, 

    unlace 
    the glove 

    Say, 
    honey, 
    I am 
    not 
    sorry


    Verse 12

    Stand 
    here 
    and 
    name 
    the 

    one 
    you 
    loved 

    Beneath 
    the 
    drifting 
    ashes 

    And 
    in 
    nam
    ing, 
    rise 
    above 
    time 

    As 
    it, 
    flash
    ing, 

    passes 

    Interlude 5


    We 
    came 
    by 
    Verse 13
    the 
    boatload 

    And 
    were immobilized 

    Wor
    shiping 
    volcanoes 

    Charting 
    the 
    loping 
    skies 

    Verse 14
    The 
    tides 
    of 
    the 
    earth 
    left 

    Us 
    bound 
    and 
    calcified and 

    made 
    as

    Obstinate 
    as 
    obsidian 

    Unmoving, 
    save 
    our eyes 

    Verse 15
    Just 
    mooning 
    and 
    blinking 

    From 
    faces 
    marked 
    with 
    coal 

    Ash 
    cool
    ing 
    and shrinking 

    Cracks 
    loud 
    as 
    thunder 
    rolling, 
    swear 

    Verse 16
    know 
    you, 
    you 
    know 
    me 

    Where 
    have 
    we 
    met 

    before, tell 
    me true? 

    To 
    whose author
    ity 

    Do you 
    con
    sign 
    your 
    soul? 

    Verse 17
    I had 
    dream you 
    came 
    to me 

    Say
    ing, you 
    shall 
    not 
    do 
    me harm 
    anymore 

    And 
    with 
    your 
    knife 
    you evicted 
    my 
    life 

    From 
    its 
    little 
    lighthouse 
    on 
    the seashore 

    And I 
    saw 
    Verse 18
    that 
    my 
    blood 

    had 
    no 
    bounds 

    Spread
    ing in 
    a circle 
    like 

    an atom 
    bomb 

    Soaking 
    and 
    felling 
    everything 
    in 
    its 
    path 

    And 
    welling 
    in 
    my 
    heart 
    like 
    birdbath 

    Verse 19
    It is 
    too 
    short, 
    the 
    day 
    we 
    are 
    born 

    We 
    commence 
    with 
    our 
    dying 

    Trying to 
    serve 
    with 
    the heart 

    of a 
    child 

    Kingfisher 
    lie with 
    the li
    on 

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