Birmingham Shadows Chords
Birmingham Shadows by Bruce Cockburn is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords Em7 and Asus4. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Verse:
Em7 Em7 Asus4
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|----------------3-----------3---|----3-----------3-------3-------|
|----------------0-----------0---|----2---------------------------|
|----------------2-----------2---|----2---------------------------|
|----------------2-----------2---|----0---------------------------|
|0---------------0-------0---0---|--------------------------------|
(lyrics spoken over riff above)
Birmingham
Just behind the mountain
Sparse streelamps glow in hot half-moon haze
Shadows shorten into little black pools that elongate behind
We walk, talk some, laugh some
Worked hard, now wired, and hanging out
I'm curious what you might be all about
Curious, too, what that dark-shape in the hard shining cruiser might do
And you have no idea what you're getting
out of of your own curiosity and tense energy
Tattoo on chest like the key to the puzzle of your pumping heart
Wearing your shadows all over your sleeve
Wearing the role of young upstart
Chorus: