Tonart: C major•
Verse 1
Cm
Bm
G
Cm
G
Cm
An eagle's nest
F
on the head of an old redwood,
C
on one of the precipice -footed ridges
above Ventana Creek,
which nothing but a fallen
G
Cm
meteor will ever plow.
C
No horseman will ever ride there,
and no hunter across this ridge
but the winged ones.
Cm
G
No one will steal the eggs
Cm
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from this fortress.
Ab
Bbsus4
The she -eagle is old.
Bb
Ab
Her mate was shot long ago.
She has now mated with a son of hers.
G
When lightning blasted her nest,
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G
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she built it again on the same tree
in the splinters of the thunderbolt.
Dm
E
B
C
An old man takes his time
B
C
F
C
about dying.
G
C
B
Dm
An d just at the back,
C
F
G
F#
a wildflower bed that you like
E
In dawn's new light, a man, my adventure
B
Dbm
E
A horse -drawn stage from Monterey
C
F
C
B
C
F
C
G
C
G
Cm
C
Cm
The She -Eagle is older than I.
She was here
when the fires of 85
C
Cm
raged on these ridges.
She was lately fledged
C
and dared not hunt ahead of them,
but ate scorched meat.
Bb
The world has changed in her time.
Humanity has multiplied,
Bbsus4
but not here.
Bb
Ab
Men's hopes and thoughts
G
and customs have changed,
Ab
G
their powers are enlarged.
Their powers and their follies
Gm
G
F#
have become fantastic.
B
C
Built on the hill,
Dm
C
B
a wagon load of bodies lay
F
C
B
scattered.
B
F
G
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a limestone ore is all that mattered.
G
F
E
They took it from the hills,
F
E
right in through the cargo doors
B
And how many ships have come and gone
E
B
E
B
F
C
at Hyrso's landing shore?
B
Bm
Ab
The un stable animal
G
Cm
never has been changed so rapidly
C
F
The motor and the plane
C
and the great war have gone over him
Cm
C
And Lennon has lived
G
Cm
while the mother eagle hunts the same hills
C
crying the same beautiful and lonely cry,
dreams the same dreams,
Eb
Ab
Bb
Ab
and hears at night the rock slides rattle and
thunder in the throats of these living mountains.
Cm
It is good for man to try all changes,
progress and corruption,
Ab
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powers, peace and anguish,
Bb
Ab
not to go down the dinosaur's way
Bb
Ab
until all his capacities have been explored.
And it is good for him to know
Eb
We that his needs in nature
Gm
are no more changed,
in fact, in ten thousand years
F#
G
than the beaks of eagles.
C
Dm
Eagles plight,
B
F
C
balance is undone.
C
B
It's the birthright of man
Dm
E
to unify
C
F
and live his life as one.
will let you soar with your soul
B
Dm
You
C
F
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