Song :
G
intro :
G C G C
G C
Walking round Chicago,
G C
I have smuggled you as cargo,
G C
though you are far away unknowing.
G C
By the time we get to Salt Lake
G C
I have packed you in my suitcase,
G C
ironed the creases from my own remembering.
G C G C
She said Bird,
G C G C
O Why
G C
We wound our way to Texas
G C
where I summoned remote hexes
G C G C
and I sent them across dust and oceans.
G C G
In Phoenix, Arizona I had the notion
C
I might phone you,
G C
but there it lived and died, a notion.
G C G C
She said Bird,
G C G C
O Why
D C G
Oh my satellite,
D C G
oh my passenger.
G C
We came up on Ohio,
G C
I have you chewed on like a biro.
G C G C
You are a sum I am no closer to deciphering.
G C
We came to Minneapolis,
G C
all fizzy blood and twitchy fists.
G
I buried you
N.C.
in a day of snowing.
C
G C G C
She said Bird,
G C G C
O Why
D C G
Oh my satellite,
D C G
oh my passenger.
