G
Oh, don’t you see the blackbird
     G
He’s high up in the trees
     F                                 C              G
He’s clinging on the branches and he’s calling out to me
     G
And can’t you hear him calling
       G
To the others circling ‘round
        F                                   C              G
They’re cutting through the steady wind and landing on the ground

[Chorus]
F     G       F        G
Raven shadow, hopeless sorrow

[Verse 2]
  G                             G
I wish it was a songbird with a voice so pure and bright
        F                          C            G
Dressed in a cone of gold and with fires in his eyes
      G                             G
And a light would shine around him, he’d stay up there all night,
    F                                          C                 G
His song would fill the air you breathe in the morning when he’d fly

[Chorus]
F       G       F       G
No more shadow, no more sorrow

[Verse 3]
     G                                  G
What does it take for changing, there’s nothing I won’t try
     F                                  C                G
I’ll call a thousand blackbirds to come raining from the sky
      G                                G
Three hundred for your troubles, three hundred one for mine
    F                                     C              G
And for the pain that I caused you, three hundred ninety-nine

[Chorus]
F       G       F       G
No more shadow, no more sorrow
F       G       F       G
No more shadow, no more sorrow