Hey Little Songbird chords by Anais Mitchell

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Cm

Difficulty: Novice

Verse:
(HADES)
Cm     G#    Gm    Cm
Hey little songbird give me a song
Cm     G#     Bb     G
I'm a busy man and I can't stay long
   Cm     G#     Eb     A7
I got clients to call I got orders to fill
    Cm    G#     Eb    G
I got walls to build I got riots to quell
      Cm     G#      G
And they're giving me hell back in Hades

Verse:
Cm     G#    Gm      Cm
Hey little songbird cat got your tongue
Cm    G#       Bb     G
Always a pity for one so pretty and young
   Cm   G#    Eb    G
When poverty comes to clip your wings
   Cm    G#    Eb      G
And knock the wind right out of your lungs
   Cm   G#    G
Hey nobody sings on empty

Chorus:
(EURYDICE)
Eb              Bb   Eb
Strange is the call of this strange man
Eb     Cm      C#     Cm
I want to fly down and feed at his hand
Eb          Bb    G
I want a nice soft place to land
Eb    G    Cm
I wanna lie down forever
          (hey..)

Verse:
(HADES)
 Cm      G#     Gm       Cm
(..Hey) little songbird you got something fine
    Cm      G#   Bb     G
You'd shine like a diamond down in the mine
     Cm    G#       Eb     A7
And the choice is yours if you're willing to choose
Cm   G#      Eb     G
Seeing as you've got nothing to lose
  Cm   G#   G
And I could use a canary

Chorus:
(EURYDICE)
Eb          Bb   Eb
Suddenly nothing is as it was
Eb       Cm  C# Cm
Where are you now Orpheus
Eb           Bb  G
Wasn't it always the two of us
Eb      G     Cm
Weren't we birds of a feather

Verse:
(HADES)
Cm     G#   Gm   Cm
Hey little songbird let me guess
   Cm      G#      Bb  G
He's some kind of poet and he's penniless

Cm       G#     Eb      A7
Give him your hand he'll give you his hand-to-mouth
    Cm     G#      Eb    G
He'll write you a poem when the power's out
  Cm      G#      G
Hey why not fly south for the winter

Cm     G#    Gm    Cm
Hey little songbird look all around you
Cm      G#     Bb     G
See how the vipers and vultures surround you
Cm        G#      Eb    A7
They'll take you down they'll pick you clean
  Cm     G#      Eb     G
If you stick around such a desperate scene
   Cm     G#      G     N.C.
See people get mean when the chips are down