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My heart became a drunken runt
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on the day I sunk in this shunt
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to tap me clean of all the wonder and the sorrow
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I have seen since I left my home
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My home, on the old Milk Lake,
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where the darkness does fall so fast, it feels like some
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kind of mistake just like they told you it would
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just like the Tulgeywood).
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When I came into my land, I did not understand:
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neither dry rot, nor the burn pile, nor the bark-beetle, nor the dry well,
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nor the black bear.
D
but there is another
G
who is a little older
Bm
when i broke my bone,
G
he carried me up from the riverside
D
to spend my life in spitting distance
G
of the love that i have known
Bm
i must stay here
G
in an endless eveningtide
D
and if you come and see me
G
you'll upset the order
Bm
you cannot come and see me
G
for i set myself apart
D
but when you come and see me
G
in California
Bm (A) D
you cross the border of my heart
DD7
well, i have sown untidy furrows 'cross my soul
GGm
but i am still a coward
DD7
content to see my garden grow so sweet
GGm (A)
and full of someone else's flowers
Bm (A) G
sometimes i can almost feel the power
(A) Bm (A) G
sometimes i am so in love with you
(A) Bm (A) G
like a little clock that trembles on the edge of the hour
(A) Bm (A) G
only ever calling out "cuck-oo, hoo-oo, hoo-oo"
When I called you, you, little one, in a bad
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way, did you love me? Do you spite me?
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Time will tell if I can be well,
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and rise to meet you rightly.
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While, moving across my land, brandishing themselves like a burning branch,
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advance the tallow-colored, walleyed deer,
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quiet as gondoliers,
while, i wait all night for you in California
Bm
watching the fox pick off my goldfish
G
from their sorry, golden state
D G (sus4)
and i am no longer afraid of anything
BmG
save the life that here awaits
D
i don't belong to anyone
D7GGm
my heart is heavy as an oil drum
D
and i don't want to be alone
D7GGm
my heart is yellow as an ear of corn
D
and i have torn my soul apart
D7GGm
from pulling artlessly with fool commands
Bm (A)
some nights i just never go to sleep at all
G
and i stand
(A) Bm (A) G
shaking in the doorway like a sentinel, all alone
(A) Bm (A)
bracing like the bow upon a ship
G
and fully abandoning
(A) Bm
any thought of anywhere but home
(A) G
my home
(A) Bm (A) G
sometimes i can almost feel the power
(A) Bm (A) G
and i do love you
(A) Bm (A) G
is it only timing that has made it such a dark hour
(A) Bm (A) G
only ever chiming out "cuck-oo, hoo-oo, hoo-oo"
^ for the backing harp pattern here I came up with this:
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cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a
Bm (A) G (A)
cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a
Bm (A) G (A)
cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a
Bm (A) G (A)
cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a
My heart, I wear you down, I know.
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Gotta think straight, keep a clean plate;
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keep from wearing down. If I lose my head,
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just where am I going to lay it?
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for it has half who need to be hanging around
BbCAbBbC
Here among the Daphne blooming out of the big ground
BbCAbBbC
i'm a native too, but i'm overgrown
BbCAbBbCC
i am sure my roots are near here as rich as rope
BbAb
here down
C
in California