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Selling Rope Swan Dive To Estuary

Key: C

Introduction: C    

difficulty
very easy |||||
                F                         Am              C                              F                                 Am                         C  
As I swan dive into the estuary, the birds do not flinch at my fall
                  F                                 G                 Am                                    C                      F                                 Dm            C  
They perch in the rafters, before, during, after: They do not notice me at all
                  F                         Am              C                                 F                    Am              C  
As I float down into the estuary, wind cases my body in cool
          F                              G                                    Am                              C                            F                         Dm              C  
I smell petrol fumes, see the smoke rise in plumes: The earth is one big fireball
                F                         Dm              C  
The earth is one big fireball
G         C  
Anecdote, lie
G                 C  
My own alibi
F                         G                    C  
I've been telling jokes
G              C  
Piled notes high
G                 C  
My own alibi
F                         G                 C  
I've been selling rope
        F                              Am                            C                              F                      Am                    C  
As I break the film of the estuary, the seaweed submerges my form
          F                              G                              Am                      C                              F                      Dm                      C  
No passing cars stop, not a single jaw drops, as my wallet and keys sink before
          F                            Dm                         C  
A splash all I left in the world
G         C  
Anecdote, lie
G                    C  
My own alibi
F                              G              C  
I've been telling jokes
G              C  
Piled notes high
G                 C  
My own alibi
F                            G              C  
I've been selling rope
                F                 G                              Am                      C                                 F                            Dm                              C  
Once held a magpie in the palm of my hand and the blood in our veins flowed faster, as I'd planned
                  F                                 G                         Am                            C                            F                                 Dm                                    C  
Got a heart full of love and a head full of more but a fist full of threads from the seams
          F                      Dm                            C  
And I saw a smile in that beak
G         C  
Anecdote, lie
G                    C  
My own alibi
F                              G              C  
I've been telling jokes
G              C  
Piled notes high
G                 C  
My own alibi
F                            G              C  
I've been selling rope
F                            G                                      Am                                 C  
Oh I was a bird right then, one day I will be again
F                                              Dm                                                                    C  
I've been telling jokes while selling rope to you
F                            G                                      Am                                 C  
Oh I was a bird right then, one day I will be again
F                                              Dm                                                                    C  
I've been telling jokes while selling rope to you
          C    Amx5  
          Dm    Cx4  
F                            G                                      Am                                 C  
Oh I was a bird right then, one day I will be again
F                                              Dm                                                                    C  
I've been telling jokes while selling rope to you
F                            G                                      Am                                 C  
Oh I was a bird right then, one day I will be again
F                                              Dm                                                                    C  
I've been telling jokes while selling rope to you
                                F                                         G  
There's no ticker-tape, no pearly gates
             Am                                    C  
No carnival and no parade
                F      Dm                    C  
Just one, one for sorrow
                                  F                                      G  
There's no ticker-tape, no pearly gates
             Am                                    C  
No carnival and no parade
                F      Dm                    C  
Just one, one for sorrow