Standard (EADGBE)

  There's a story I'd like you to listen to

  About a lady and a broken bird

  Broken by the hammer

  You took it so hard, you hardly said a word

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Sending them back over the lines

  Whistling down the wire from pole to pole

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Bending them over the times

  Trying to burn the diamonds from the holy coal

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Sending them over the lines

  Whistling down the wire from pole to pole

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Bending them over the times

  Trying to burn the diamonds from the holy coal

  Telling this story slowly together

  Reading in the dark

  The bird that you saw dying, we saw flying