Ramshackle Glory - Love Song For The Birds In Our Backyard

      The whole song is G D C G. The strumming pattern is a little difficult but the chords are simple.

       G                               D
Just like that it was winter again here in the desert.
        C                                 G
 In June, our house was empty. In September it's full of house guests.
 G                                      D
 They're too punk, or I'm too punk, for words to come out
   C                                    G
 sitting here in the living room of our beautiful, broken-down house. 
 G                                          D
I've been working so much lately, when I'm home I feel like a stranger
        C                   G     
 in a foreign country where I can't speak the language 
     G                         D
of unemployment, minor crimes, plans to get the hell out
           C                                  G
 I mutter fuck the police and lie down in our beautiful, broken-down house.
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 G                                  D
 We were in the kitchen, it was the week you first moved in.
     C                                 G 
 I said, We're glad to have you. You shrugged. Well, it's here or a ditch... 
 G                                        D
Thanks for dancing, thanks for singing, thanks for sticking around
       C                                 G
 and making a home with us here in our beautiful, broken-down house.
  G                                      D
 On my days off I like to sit up on the roof and watch the traffic.
             C                                       G
 There's my buddy Micky from the laundromat, walking by looking pretty dope sick.
  G                                             D        
 And hell, I remember that walk, but I haven't taken it for three years now.
     C                                     G
 So Micky, come here and lie down in our beautiful, broken-down house.
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      G                                D
 The last couple weeks I know you've been having trouble breathing
C                       G
and maybe, truthfully, trouble with most things 
G                                           D
but don't you worry if the pipes freeze and power goes out.
           C                                              G
 We'll just be friends who are cold, in the dark, of our beautiful, broken-down house.
  G                                D                   
 And just like that it was summer again here in Tucson.
     C                                G
 In March our house was a jungle, in July it's an abandoned parking lot.
  G                                                    D
 You move back to England, you move with the seasons, you move where it's hip right now. 
    C                                      G
I say, Fuck them all and lie down in our beautiful, broken-down house.
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