Hey Little Songbird Chords

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These are right chords, but I'd recommend playing with the guitar tuned a whole tone down and the chords transmuted 2 halftones up (dm shapes).Was this info helpful?

Difficulty:	intermediate
Tuning:	E A D G B E
Key:	Cm
Capo:	no capo

Author GWiZ [a] 472. Last edit on Jun 3, 2019

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[Verse]
(HADES)
Cm          G#       Gm       Cm
Hey little songbird give me a song
Cm         G#         Bb         G
I'm a busy man and I can't stay long
      Cm          G#         Eb         G7
I got clients to call I got orders to fill
       Cm       G#          Eb        G
I got walls to build I got riots to quell
            Cm         G#           G
And they're giving me hell back in Hades
 
[Verse]
Cm          G#       Gm           Cm
Hey little songbird cat got your tongue
Cm        G#              Bb         G
Always a pity for one so pretty and young
      Cm      G#        Eb        G
When poverty comes to clip your wings
     Cm        G#        Eb            G
And knock the wind right out of your lungs
     Cm     G#       G
Hey nobody sings on empty
 
[Chorus]
(EURYDICE)
Eb                            Bb      Eb
Strange is the call of this strange man
Eb         Cm            C#          Cm
I want to fly down and feed at his hand
Eb                   Bb       G
I want a nice soft place to land
Eb        G        Cm
I wanna lie down forever
                    (hey..)
 
[Verse]
(HADES)
  Cm            G#          Gm             Cm
(..Hey) little songbird you got something fine
       Cm           G#      Bb          G
You'd shine like a diamond down in the mine
         Cm        G#              Eb          G7
And the choice is yours if you're willing to choose
Cm      G#            Eb          G
Seeing as you've got nothing to lose
    Cm      G#     G
And I could use a canary
 
[Chorus]
(EURYDICE)
Eb                   Bb     Eb
Suddenly nothing is as it was
Eb             Cm   C#  Cm
Where are you now Orpheus
Eb                     Bb    G
Wasn't it always the two of us
Eb           G          Cm
Weren't we birds of a feather
 
[Verse]
(HADES)
Cm          G#      Gm      Cm
Hey little songbird let me guess
      Cm           G#            Bb   G
He's some kind of poet and he's penniless
 
Cm             G#         Eb            G7
Give him your hand he'll give you his hand-to-mouth
       Cm          G#            Eb       G
He'll write you a poem when the power's out
    Cm           G#            G
Hey why not fly south for the winter
 
Cm          G#       Gm       Cm
Hey little songbird look all around you
Cm           G#         Bb          G
See how the vipers and vultures surround you
Cm                G#           Eb        G7
They'll take you down they'll pick you clean
   Cm          G#           Eb          G
If you stick around such a desperate scene
     Cm         G#            G         N.C.
See people get mean when the chips are down
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