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The Birds Of St Marks Tab

by Jackson Browne


The Birds of St. Marks by Jackson Browne

Tabbed using the version off of Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1 (the only version available, I think).

Put a capo on the first fret or tune each string down a half-step.

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Oh how sad they sound, the songs, the queen must sing of dying
                                                    
A prisoner upon her throne of melancholy sighing
                               
If she could see her mirror now
                                               
She would be free of those who bow
                        
And scrape the ground beneath her feet


Silently she walks among her dying midnight roses
                                                                        
And watches as each moment goes that never really know us
                                         
And so it seems she doesn't care
                                         
If she has dreams of no one there
                 
Within the shadows of her room

                        
But all my frozen words agree, and say it's time to
                                                               
Call back all the birds I sent to fly behind her castle walls
                           
And I'm weary of the nights I've seen
                           
Inside these empty halls

Interlude


Wooden lady turn and turn among my weary secrets
                                                                   
And wave within the hours past and other empty pockets
                                                
Maybe we've found what we have lost
                                             
When we've unwound so many crossed
                                 
Entangling misunderstandings

                        
But all my frozen words agree, and say it's time to
                                                               
Call back all the birds I sent to fly behind her castle walls
                           
And I'm weary of the nights I've seen
                           
Inside these empty halls