Iron & Wine - Song In Stone

      Tabbed by: Mohamed Awad (Cairo, Egypt. Sept 8th, 2017)

Another gem from Beast Epic. The studio version is played in open tuning with many hammer-ons, picking and
incomplete chords. This is just how I play it in standard tuning.

[Verse 1]
F               Gm         Csus2    F    F           Gm
Songbirds in the morning, had my    head lost in the tall trees
        Bb               F
I knew well, well I would say
            C       Bb
Dreaming my dry     weeds
F                    Gm      Csus2       F
Stray light finds its way to all      of us
F             Gm             Csus2
Say something green, it comes back
Bb               F                   C    Bb
Sign light on my lips, let 'em kiss, dark leaves
        Bb                          Bb/A             Gmadd4
Let the hands of the wrong prophets heal me all they should
        Bb                 Bb/A              Gmadd4
Let the wine of the poison Jesus says tastes good
    C                   Bb                 F                     F
And all those trees lay down if you were a bird and fell into my arms

[Chorus]
     Dm                 Bb
If I wrote your song in stone
     Dm                   Bb
If I wore your wings back home
          Dm                      C        Bb       F
Where the dreams in the backwater drown us far from home

[Verse 2]
   F             Gm       Csus2       F
Give this to the gray, it comes back gold
F            Gm       Csus2     Bb
Birds of the morning, they may know
Bb             F                 C         Bb
Know more than us, giving their hymns for life
         Bb                      Bb/A              Gmadd4
Let the waves on the wrong water say what they will say
          Bb                  Bb/A              Gmadd4
While the wind and the broken branches blow me away
C                   Bb                 F                     F
All tall tree lay down if you were the bird who fell into my arms

[Chorus]
        Dm                  Bb
I could write your song in stone
        Dm                  Bb
I could wear your wings back home
          Dm                      C        Bb        F
Where the dreams in the backwater drown us far from home