Mockingbirds - Grant Lee Buffalo This may be slightly incorrect. Please mail me if I'm wrong! Tune: Devastation at last finally we meet After all of these years out here in the street I had a feeling you would make yourself known You came along just to claim your place on the throne Now I have been overthrown, overthrown And I thought If I told the right lines But these mockingbirds won't let me shine Devastation my door was left open wide You brought me into your heart then you swallowed my pride I had a feeling you were hiding your thoughts I made a not to myself, I merely forgot Now I am overwrought, I'm overwrought And I thought If I told the right lines But these mockingbirds won't let me shine And I thought If I told the right lines But these mockingbirds won't let me shine One day this ground will break and open up for me I hope it will I hope it will [solo see below] Salutations at last, I'm down on my knees I hear the bugle this morn blast Revile Woke from a dream where I was in a terrible realm All my sails were ablaze, I was chained to helm Now I am overwhelmed, I'm overwhelmed And I thought If I told the right lines But these mockingbirds won't let me shine And I thought If I told the right lines But these mockingbirds won't let me shine Solo: (half step flat also) -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- --13--16--13--11-11-11-13---11-9-9-9-- -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- /-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/- I Steve Vetter I "I'm not the same I / Elon College I And I hope that it shows..." I Alpha Kappa Psi I -Neil Young (Homefires) I \-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/