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Flowers Eurydices Song

Anaïs Mitchell

OtherAdvanced for beginners7 chords

How to play it

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

BbDiagram coming soon
AbDiagram coming soon
FmDiagram coming soon
EbDiagram coming soon
CmDiagram coming soon
GmDiagram coming soon
C×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              Verse 
 
Bb 
What I wanted was to fall asleep 
 Bb 
Close my eyes and disappear 
 Bb 
Like a petal on a stream, a feather on the air 
 Bb 
Lily white and poppy red 
 Bb                Ab 
I trembled when he laid me out 
  Bb                   Ab        Fm          Bb      Eb 
You won't feel a thing, he said, when you go down 
 Ab                        Bb     Ab Bb Ab Bb Ab Bb 
Nothing gonna wake you now 
 
Verse 
 
 Bb 
Dreams are sweet until they're not 
  Bb                         Fm 
Men are kind until they aren't 
 Bb                         Fm        Bb      Eb 
Flowers bloom until they rot and fall apart 
 Bb                    Eb 
Is anybody listening? 
  Bb                                 Cm 
I open my mouth and nothing comes out 
 Bb 
Nothing 
 Bb                       Ab Bb Ab Bb Ab Bb 
Nothing gonna wake me now 
 
Verse 
 
 Bb 
Flowers, I remember fields 
           Eb  Bb           Gm 
Of flowers, soft beneath my heels 
               Bb 
Walking in the sun 
 Eb 
I remember someone 
               Bb 
Someone by my side 
  Eb 
Turned his face to mine 
    Bb 
And then I turned away 
Eb              Bb Cm Bb Gm Ab 
Into the shade 
 
Outro 
 
 Bb     Eb 
You, the one I left behind 
             Bb 
If you ever walk this way 
  C 
Come and find me lying in the bed I made 
          
 

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Chord set

Bb · Ab · Fm · Eb · Cm · Gm · C

Practice tip

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