Key: G
Introduction:
E5 G D
{intro}
E G
Three hits to the heart son
D
And it's poetry in motion
E G
One could send you down the river
D
Three's a strange way to be delivered
G D
Would you trade your words for freedom
G
That's a barter for a blind man
E G
Three hits to the heart son
D
And it's poetry in motion
E G D
{5-bar solo}
E G
Are you leveed like a treasure
D
Only words can help me find you
E G
And this world's a fickle measure
D
I will painfully remind you
G D
From a wise man to your red hand
G
You lay covered in our best sins
E G
Three hits to the heart son
D
And it's poetry in motion {extra bar}
E G D E G D
{9-bar solo}
E5 G
Well I dream you constant stranger
D
With your best bloods and your anger
E5 G
You say mother do you claim me
D
My beloved do you blame me
G D
Well the first two might release you
G
But the last one sings in me son {drum beats}
E G
Three hits to the heart son
D
And it's poetry in motion
E G
Three hits to the heart son {slowing}
D
And the last one sings in me
{Intro bass line:}