Third Day - Blackbird guitar chord

Blackbird By Third Day

Author: Mac Powell

Copyright: 1995 Class Reunion Music/Little Man Big Man Music/gray dot

songs, a division of gray dot, inc. (ASCAP)

Drop D Tuning

Ok...now the song...

Verse 1

E

Black bird, why you wearin' that frown?

A A/G

Well, don't ya know Jesus loves you and me

and the preacher on TV your puttin' down?

E

Blackbird, how I love to hear your songs.

A A/G

Well, I could spend all my time in the shade of a tree

And listen all day long.

A-G-E

Whoa yeah

A-G-E

I could listen

A-G-E

All day long

A-G-E

Chorus

G D

Whoa but your ever hearing, never understanding,

A E

Yea I see you're not percieving and your heart has grown calloused

G D

You're in a storm and lost your way,

A

Won't you fly to heaven and be saved today.

Verse 2

E

Blackbird, now you've broken your wings.

A

You try to fly high, but you know that

A/G

You can't go anywhere, you can't do anything.

E

Blackbird, who put you in your cage?

A

Tell me was it God or was it you

A/G

Or was it me, well I guess it don't matter anyway.

A-G-E

Whoa no no

A-G-E

It don't matter

A-G-E

No no anyway

A-G-E

Chorus

E-A

Whoa yeah

E-A E-A

Blackbird

Guitar Solo (I'm sorry...I don't know this!)

A-G-E X5

GA

A-G-E

A-G-E

You say you need a rememdy,

For the thorn in your pride

A

I think it's such a tragedy

A G E

That you left Him behind!

You say you light your candle

But your love light doesn't shine.

A

You say you talk to angels

A G E

Well, I say that's such a lie.

A-G-E

Yes it is now

A-G-E A-G-E A-G-E

such a lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie.

Chorus

E-A

Whoa yeah

E-A E-A

Blackbird

A-G-E

A-G-E

If anyone knows the guitar solo, I am very interested in knowing what it

is. But I am still a young musician, so I'm not really good at figuring

that kind of stuff out. Well, God Bless!

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