Capo: 1st fret

[Intro]

Dm G Am G
Dm G Am G

[Verse 1]

Dm G
All I had hoped for
Am
I kept inside your car
G
The rabbit in the barn

Dm G
Most of all I wait
Am
I wait beside the door
G
I wait beside the door

Dm G
Oh, I was wrong
Am
Trembling in the cage
G
I was diamonds in the cage

Dm G
In seven hours
Am
I consider death
G
And your father called to yell at me
Dm
“You little boy, you little boy”

[Chorus]

G
Hoo-oo-oo Oo-oo
Am
Hoo-oo-oo Oo-ah-ah
G Dm
Hoo-oo-oo Oo-oooooooo
G
Hoo-oo-oo Oo-oo
Am
Hoo-oo-oo Oo-ah-ah
G Dm
Hoo-oo-oo Oo-oooooooo

[Verse 2]

Dm G
Found out you cheated me
Am
I ran behind the barn
G
And cut my hands somehow

Dm G
Blood in the meadow lark
Am
I punched your ears instead
G
I punched you in the head
Dm
You only laughed and laughed and laughed

G
How I was wrong
Am
tingling from the kill
G
You tickle me until
Dm
You devil bird, you evil still

G
I slept on my arms
Am
Sleeping on the sill
G
I was sleeping in the room with you
Dm
You little boy, you little boy

[Verse 3]

G
How could you run from me now
Am
The loneliest chime in the house
G
The loneliest chime in the house
Dm
You let it out, you let it out

G
Come to me Calvary still
Am
I’m weeding and raking until
G
I’m bleeding in spite of my love for you
Dm
It bruised and bruised my will

G
Counting alluvial plains
Dm
The breathing inside of the range
G
You touched me inside of my cage
Dm
Beneath my shirt your hands embraced me

G
Come to me feathered and frayed
Am
For I am the ugliest prey
G
For I am the ugliest prey
Dm
Beyond the reckless, reckless praise

[Chorus]

Dm G
Hoo-oo-oo Oo-oo
Am
Hoo-oo-oo Oo-ah-ah
G Dm
Hoo-oo-oo Oo-oooooooo

[Bridge]

F C
You said you’d wait for me
Dm
Down by the tannery creek
G
Far out by the clothesline where
F
We used to kiss behind the sheets

C
Wrapped in a blanket of red
Dm
The owl and the tanager sat
G
The owl and the tanager said
Dm
One waits until the hour is death

[Chorus]

G
Hoo-oo-oo Oo-oo
Am
Hoo-oo-oo Oo-ah-ah
G Dm
Hoo-oo-oo Oo-oooooooo
G
Hoo-oo-oo Oo-oo
Am
Hoo-oo-oo Oo-ah-ah
G Dm
Hoo-oo-oo Oo-oooooooo