Josh Ritter - Wings guitar chord

Wings

By Josh Ritter

Capo 2

Am

At night we crossed the border following a Black robe

Em

To the edge of the reservation to Cataldo Mission

Am

Where the saints and all the martyrs look down on dying converts

Em F Am

What makes the water holy, she says, is that it's the closest thing to rain

Am

I stole a mule from Anthony, I helped Anne up upon it

Em

And we rode to Coeur d'Alene past Harrison and Wallace

Am

They were blasting out the tunnels, making way for the light of learning

Em F C

When Jesus comes a'calling, she said, he's coming 'round the mountain on a train

Chorus:

F C

It's my home, last night I dreamt that I grew wings

G Am

I found a place where they could hear me when I sing

We floated on to Hanford on a lumber boat up river

Past the fisheries and milltowns like a stretch of future graveyards

She was driven to distraction, said, I wonder what will happen

When they find out they're mistaken and the land is too changed to ever change

We waded through the marketplace, someone's ship had come in

There was silver and begonias, dynamite and cattle

There were hearts as big as apples and apples in the shape of Mary's heart

I said, inside this gilded cage a songbird always looks so plain

Chorus

And so they came with cameras, breaking through the morning mist

Press and businessmen, tycoons, Episcopal philanthropists

Lost in their appraisal of the body of a woman

But all we saw were lowlands, clouds clung to mountains without strings

And at last we saw some people, at last we saw some people

And at last we saw some people huddled up against

The rain that was descending like railroad spikes and hammers

They were headed for the border, walking and then running

Then they were gone into the fog but Anne said underneath the jackets she saw wings