Intro: CFCFGCFCFCFCF
The change could happen any day
GC
So says the whippoorwill
FC
It hangs 'round for the seeds I leave
FDmGF
Out on the windowsill
CDmC
"Be-free-you-fool, be-free-you-fool"
F ~ DmGC
She sings all afternoon
FCF
Then, as if to show me how it's done
GCFCF
She leaps into the blue
CFCF
And the change could happen any day
GC
So say all the guards
FCF
In the prison I have built around
~ DmGF
My solitary heart
CDmC
I tell myself that I'm alright
F ~ DmGC
That it's not so bad a place
FCF
The truth is, that I'm just scared to death
GCFCF
Of walking through that gate
CFCF
And the change could happen any day
GC
So say my true love's eyes
FC
They see into my shadows
F ~ DmGF
With their swe-et, forgiving light
CDmC
She smiles and says, "Come on, let's go
F ~ DmGC
Let's stroll the boulevard.
FC
It's such a shame to waste the night
FGC
Just sitting in the dark"
Instrumental: CFCDmCF ~ DmGCGFCFGCFCF
And the change could happen any day
GC
Or so says Father Brown
FC
I listen for that still small voice
F ~ DmGF
But I just can't make it out
CDmC
Beneath the constant whispering
F ~ DmCG
Of the devil that I know
CGFC
But who would I be, if I believed?
FGC
Who am I, if I don't?
FCF
And the change could happen any day
GC
So said the mountaineer
FC
Before he turned to face his cliff
F ~ DmG
With----out a trace of fear
FCDmC
Yodel-ay-he-oh, yodel-ay-he-hoo
F ~ DmCG
He sang right up until
CGFC
He caught sight of that open blue
FGC
And became a whippoorwill
CGFC
He caught sight of that open blue
FGC
And became a whippoorwill
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.