Chord/Tab song: Rooks

SHEARWATER - Rooks (2008)

(Original tuning, but a bit easier in A-minor.)

Intro : Gm - F7 - Gm - F7 - Eb - D7

when the rook[Gm]s were laid in piles
by the sides of the road
[F7]crashing into the aerials
tangled in the laundery li[Gm]ne

[F7]and gathered in a field
they were burned in a feathering p[Bb]yre[-][F/A][-][Eb]
with a cold black e[D7]ye

when the swallo[Gm]ws fell from the eaves

and the gulls from the spires
and st[F7]arlings in the millions
will feed on the ground where they [Gm]lie

[F7]the ambulance men said there's
nowhere to flee for your l[Bb]ife[-][F/A][-][Eb]
so we stayed insid[D7]e
and we'll s[Cm]leep until
the world of m[D]an is paralyz[Gm]ed

[Gm] [-] [F7] [-] [Gm] [-] [F7] [-] [Eb] [-] [D]

[Gm]Oh the falconer awakes
to the sound of the bel[Bb]ls
overhead and southboun[Cm]d
they are leaving his[D7] life

and eac[Gm]h empty cage just rings
in his heart like a b[Bb]ell
underneath these cold st[Cm]ars
and his trembling ni[D]ght
and he cr[Eb]ies of man
"let the ki[Cm]ngdom come tonig[D]ht
let this dream be reali[Gm]zed"