Red-Winged Blackbird (Key of F)
David Francey (1999)


Intro
| [F] | [F] |
| [F] | [Bb] [F] | [Bb] | [C] |
| [F] | [Bb] [F] | [Bb] | [1/2C] | [F] | [F] |
| [Bb] | [C] | [Bb] | [C] |
| [Bb] | [C] | [Bb] | [C] | [F] | [F] |

Chorus
| [F] Thought I heard a | [Bb] red winged [F] blackbird, |
| [Bb] Red winged [F] blackbird | [C] down my road, |
| [F] Thought I heard a | [Bb] red winged [F] blackbird, |
| [Bb] Red winged [F] blackbird | [1/2C] down my | [F] road. | [F] |

| [F] He'll be there be- | side the river,
When | [F] winter finally | [F] breaks its [C] bones, |
| [F] He'll be king a- | [F] mong the [Dm] rushes, |
| [Bb] He'll be [F] master | [C] of his [F] home. |

Chorus
| [F] Thought I heard a | [Bb] red winged [F] blackbird, |
| [Bb] Red winged [F] blackbird | [C] down my road, |
| [F] Thought I heard a | [Bb] red winged [F] blackbird, |
| [Bb] Red winged [F] blackbird | [1/2C] down my | [F] road. | [F] |

| [F] Safe as Moses | in the rushes, |
| [F] Builds his home on the | [F] river [C] wide, |
| [F] Every time I | [F] hear him [Dm] singing, |
| [Bb] Makes me [F] feel like | [C] Spring in- [F] side. |

Chorus
| [F] Thought I heard a | [Bb] red winged [F] blackbird, |
| [Bb] Red winged [F] blackbird | [C] down my road, |
| [F] Thought I heard a | [Bb] red winged [F] blackbird, |
| [Bb] Red winged [F] blackbird | [1/2C] down my | [F] road. | [F] |

Instrumental
| [Bb] | [C] | [Bb] | [C] |
| [Bb] | [C] | [Bb] | [C] | [F] |
| [Bb] | [C] | [Bb] | [C] |
| [Bb] | [C] | [Bb] | [C] |
| [F] | [Bb] [F] | [Bb] | [C] |
| [F] | [Bb] [F] | [Bb] | [1/2C] | [F] | [F] |

| [F] He'll be in there | singing his heart out, |
| [F] He'll be telling me | [F] stories [C] too,
Of | [F] where he went to | [F] winter [Dm] last year,
Of | [Bb] how he's [F] going | [C] back there [F] too. |

Chorus
| [F] Thought I heard a | [Bb] red winged [F] blackbird, |
| [Bb] Red winged [F] blackbird | [C] down my road, |
| [F] Thought I heard a | [Bb] red winged [F] blackbird, |
| [Bb] Red winged [F] blackbird | [C] down my [F] road. |

| [F] Thought I heard a | [Bb] red winged [F] blackbird, |
| [Bb] Red winged [F] blackbird | [C] down my road, |
| [F] Thought I heard a | [Bb] red winged [F] blackbird, |
| [Bb] Red winged [F] blackbird | [1/2C] down my | [F] road. | [F] |

Outro
| [Bb] | [C] | [Bb] | [C] |
| [Bb] [F] | [C] [F↓]

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#Last Updated 04/13/20 JJ
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