These are the chords for Rookery by Ben Howard on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard
[Verse 1]
C C/D Am
Birch tree lost its branch one
C/D C
day in violent winter
C C/D
I said it was grieving,
Am C
you said it don't feel nothing
F G C
I bet you think everything's
Am
in its rightful place
C G C
That sentiment is man's disgrace
[Verse 2]
C C/D Am
Well the rooks in the trees,
C/D C
they don't half bother me
F G/C
Clawing at my mind with
G C
every given opportunity
F G C Am
It's spring outside, a perilous sky
C G/C Am
and that terrible clattering sound
C
"Go ahead,
G Am
you should go shoot them down"
Am
That's what you said,
G F
"you should go shoot them down"
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[Verse 3]
G Am
So hey, that's me
C G6
Shooting at a hundred-year-old rookery
G Am
Oh, look at me
Fmaj7 G/C F
The definition of futility
F
That's what they'll say anyway
F
Won't they, babe?
[Verse 4]
C C/D Am
So I'll go back to working through
C C/D C
the gentle hours of the evening
C F Am
Where the weather and the wine and
G/C C
the company treat me easily
F G C
Unknowing am I of the wind
Am
that took my eye
F G/C C
Unknowing am I of the wind
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[Outro]
F G C
Unknowing am I of the wind
Am
that took my eye
C G C
Unknowing am I of the wind