Blackbird By Third Day
Author: Mac Powell
Copyright: 1995 Class Reunion Music/Little Man Big Man Music/gray dot
songs, a division of gray dot, inc. (ASCAP)

Ok...now the song...

Verse 1
EE Piano Chord 

Black bird, why you wearin' that frown?
AA Piano Chord 
                  A/GA/G Piano Chord 

Well, don't ya know Jesus loves you and me

and the preacher on TV your puttin' down?
EE Piano Chord 

Blackbird, how I love to hear your songs.
AA Piano Chord 
                  A/GA/G Piano Chord 

Well, I could spend all my time in the shade of a tree

And listen all day long.

A-G-E
Whoa yeah
A-G-E
I could listen
A-G-E
All day long
A-G-E

Chorus
GG Piano Chord 
                  DD Piano Chord 

Whoa but your ever hearing, never understanding,
AA Piano Chord 
                                  EE Piano Chord 

Yea I see you're not percieving and your heart has grown calloused
GG Piano Chord 
                       DD Piano Chord 

You're in a storm and lost your way,
AA Piano Chord 

Won't you fly to heaven and be saved today.

Verse 2
EE Piano Chord 

Blackbird, now you've broken your wings.
AA Piano Chord 

You try to fly high, but you know that
A/GA/G Piano Chord 

You can't go anywhere, you can't do anything.
EE Piano Chord 

Blackbird, who put you in your cage?
AA Piano Chord 

Tell me was it God or was it you
A/GA/G Piano Chord 

Or was it me, well I guess it don't matter anyway.

A-G-E
Whoa no no
A-G-E
It don't matter
A-G-E
No no anyway
A-G-E

Chorus

E-A
Whoa yeah
E-A        E-A
Blackbird

Guitar Solo (I'm sorry...I don't know this!)

A-G-E X5

GA

A-G-E
A-G-E

You say you need a rememdy,

For the thorn in your pride
AA Piano Chord 

I think it's such a tragedy
AA Piano Chord 
    GG Piano Chord 
     EE Piano Chord 

That you left Him behind!

You say you light your candle

But your love light doesn't shine.
AA Piano Chord 

You say you talk to angels
AA Piano Chord 
           GG Piano Chord 
      EE Piano Chord 

Well, I say that's such a lie.

A-G-E
Yes it is now
A-G-E           A-G-E                     A-G-E
such a lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie.

Chorus

E-A
Whoa yeah
E-A         E-A
Blackbird

A-G-E
A-G-E

If anyone knows the guitar solo, I am very interested in knowing what it
is. But I am still a young musician, so I'm not really good at figuring
that kind of stuff out. Well, God Bless!