Bobby Long – Being A Mockingbird chords

[Intro]
Eb Eb Ab Ab Eb Bb Eb Ab Eb Bb Eb

[Verse 1]
Bb Eb                             Ab   When the night it rests like a hammerblow
    Eb                    Bb         Bb7and breaks the morning it brings
        Eb                      AbFor the mad men are down on the crypt floor
Eb                     Bb          Ebsleeping through their favours and sins
        Ab                   EbWell I trained myself to be hardened
      Ab              Eb       Bband I greet the bird like the day
        Eb        G    CmWell I soared to greet lusty gamblings
     Ab                                    Bband drenched myself in the dusk where they lay

Bb7  Bb

[Verse 2]
       Eb                        AbOh, I exchanged the dark for the darkness
      Eb                     Bband I hung the belt from the wing
       Eb                            AbSo the traitors may part with their malice
          Eb       Bb   Ebbut I'll remember everything
      Ab                            EbSo I stood up and danced round the heckles
       Ab                        Bband I planted the leaf from the book
        Eb      G     CmWell I admit I love my romances
      Ab                     Bbthe blackbird, the wren, the rook

[Solo]
Bb7 Eb Ab Eb Bb Eb Ab Eb Bb Eb

[Verse 3]
        Eb                                AbFor the church house won't part with the coffins
Eb                               Bb         Bb7but the docks they whittle their ships
            Eb                        AbUntil the pleasure the feast and the memory
         Eb      Bb           Eb    Eb7   Eband the soar of kissing her lips
         Ab               EbWell I gave myself to the dawning,
        Ab              C      Bbof the morning bird in first flight
          Eb              G          Cm    AbWell I'm sure I ran the road of the pauper

[Outro]
                     Bb     AbI lost it all in the night
                     BbI lost it all in the night

Bb7 Bb Eb Ab Eb Bb Cm Eb