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Ankle Bone

Birdtalker

PopMedium for beginners3 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

C×○○
F
Dm××○

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              Intro 
 
C  x4 
 
 
verse 1 
C 
She walks alone across the burning sand 
F 
No song in her ears 
C 
No, she won't find another mother now 
F 
There is no other here 
Dm                             C 
She wanders onward never to arrive 
Dm                                     C 
The naked orphan with nothing more to hide 
 
C  x4 
 
 
verse 2 
C 
Calls like a pagan to the angry sun 
F 
Wincing with tired eyes 
C 
Isn't there anything worth searching for? 
F 
Is it all compromise? 
Dm                                   C 
She has no saviour and nothing to decide 
Dm                           C 
Spinning onward, a circular sky 
 
Dm  x2 
F   x2 
 
 
 
Refrain 
Dm 
The desert is her mother 
Dm 
The desert is her mother 
F 
The desert is her mother 
F 
The desert is her mother 
 
Dm 
The desert is her mother 
Dm 
The desert is her mother 
F 
The desert is her mother 
F 
The desert is her mother 
 
Dm 
The desert is her mother 
Dm 
The desert is her mother 
F 
The desert is her mother 
F                         C 
The desert is her mother now 
 
C    F   C    F 
 
 
Outro 
Dm                                  C 
Maybe nothing is all that she will find 
Dm                                  C 
Maybe nothing is all that she will find 
 
C  x4

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Chord set

C · F · Dm

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.