Sean Hayes - Flowering Spade Chords & Tabs

An amazing song from one of the best folk singers of today...
Originally recorded in the key of F
Transposed below in the key of G

Alternate back and forth on the G and E note when you are strumming that opening G chord:
|----3----3-----3----3-|
|----0----0-----0----0-|
|----0----0-----0----0-|
|----0----0-----0----0-|
|----2----2-----2----2-|
|-3-----0----3-----0---|

G

G        C         Em            C          Em 
He has a flowering spade growing out of his chest
        D
full of magic and healing,
G        C         Em            C             Em
She is a flowering spade and she moves and she sways
        D
you can see that she feels it.

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C     Em     C     Em       D
She's off to dance with the goat boys,
C    Em     C    Em           D 
He's off to sail through your wide open ocean.
C   Em      C       Em     D
She learned to sing from a siren,
C  Em         C    Em     D 
He learned to swim from a drop in the water.

G         C                Em                C              Em
There are words, there are signs, close your eyes, there is magic
       D
inside you.
G         C           Em             C             Em         
Hear this box in your mind, building frames for to trace your 
D
desires.

C   Em         C    Em     D
She learned to cook from a sailor,
C  Em         C   Em    D
He learned to cry in an elephant circus.
C   Em      C   Em     D
She found a recipe for flying,
    C   Em       C  Em      D
And he's growing flowers to understand dying.


G            C  Em  C  Em  D
Rejoice....  Hmmm.....



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