Songbook

Sovay

By Andrew Bird

Key of C

C G F F
C G F F

[Verse]
C                           G
I was getting ready to be a threat
              F
I was getting set for my accidental suicide
C
The kind where no one dies
       G                   F
No one looks too surprised
                 C                  G
Then you realize riding on the para-success
                  F
Of a heavy-handed metaphor
                                    C
And feeling like you've been here before
                           G
Because you've been here before
                       F
And you've been here before
                    C
Then a word washed ashore
               G
A word washed ashore
                    F
Then a word washed ashore

[Chorus]
Am  E
  Sovay
F#m G#m
  Sovay
Am  E
  Sovay
F             C
All along the day

C G F F
C G F F

C                      G
I was getting ready to consider my next plan of attack
  F                                           C
I think I'm gonna sack the whole board of trustees
                   G               F
All those Don Quixotes and their B-17s
F
  And I swear this time
          C    G
Yeah this time
                            F
They'll blow us back to the 70's
         C    G
And this time
                            F
They're playing Ride of the Valkyries
                     C             G
With no semblance of grace or ease
                      F
And they're acting on vagaries
                           C
With their violent proclivities
                    G
And they're playing Ride
F
  They're playing Ride
                    C
And they're playing Ride
G  F
  Ride, Ride of the Valkyries

[Chorus]
Am  E
  Sovay
F#m G#m
  Sovay
Am  E
  Sovay
F             C
All along the day

C G F F
C G F F