Artist: Bowerbirds Song: Matchstick Maker Album: Hymns for a Dark Horse Tabbed by: Hunter MacDermut Intro/Verses e|---1---1-------------------0-----------------1-| B|---3---3---------------3---3---1-----------1-1-| G|-------------2-------1-----1---2---2-----2---2-| D|-0---3-----0-------0-------0-----------3-----3-| x3 A|---------0-----3-2---------2-0---------------3-| E|-------------------------0-0-----0---1-------1-| "Dredge the Cedar River For a previous life Or scour the clears above In search of lost time" Pre-Chorus C/G F "You'll never find a body C/G F As the Palisades crumble slowly C/G E F (F#) And they claim the past as their own" Chorus G7 F "Branded skin, broken vessel C Am Took a job in the city F C/G Am Am/E F Making matchsticks to start other men's fires Am Am/E F Oh..." Verse (same as above) "Gorgeous blooms on these cliffs Missed a battery of sticks and twigs Gravity toils away" Pre-Chorus C/G F "Blisters on his hands from tightening ropes all day C/G F Lashing down all it sees C/G E F But it's poised like a father's and not like a king's C/G E F And the rule of the land's more like a strong suggestion C/G E F (F#) And the strong current begs for the open ocean" Chorus x2 Chorus sans words x2