So Says The Whippoorwill by Richard Shindell
Key: CC | Capo: 2fr |  Left-Handed 

    


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