Butchered Tongue chords by Hozier

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: Bm

🎸 Intro:
Bm D Gmaj7



🎸 Verse 1:
   Bm        D
As a child it was the place names
    Gmaj7
Singin' at me as the first thing
    Bm       A        F#m
How the mouth must be employed in every corner of itself
    G   D                Gmaj7
To say "Appalacicola" or "Hushpukena", like "Gweebarra"
 Em       A         D
A promise softly sung of somewhere else

🎸 Chorus:
     G                   Bm
And as a young man blessed to pass so many road signs
      G              A         F#m
And have my foreign ear made fresh again on each unlikely sound
      G        D     Bm       F#m
But feel at home, hearin' a music that few still understand
      Em          A           D
A butchered tongue still singin' here above the ground



🎸 Verse 2:
  Bm           D        G
The ears were chopped from young men if the pitch cap didn't kill them
     Bm       A           F#m
They are buried without scalp in the shattered bedrock of our home
    G        D
You may never know your fortune
     G         Em          A
Until the distance has been shown between what is lost forever
           D
And what can still be known


🎸 Chorus:
      G                 Bm
So far from home to have a stranger call you, "Darling"
       G               A        F#m
And have your guarded heart be lifted like a child up by the hand
     G          D
In some town that just means 'Home' to them
       Bm      F#m
With no translator left to sound
      Em          A       D
A butchered tongue still singin' here above the ground

Bm D Gmaj7 F#m
Bm D Gmaj7 Bm