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Eleanor's Song

 |  Dsus2  |   Bm3   |  Cadd9  |    G5   |   Cm7   |  D6sus2 | Em7b5/Bb|
E|----0----|----X----|----0----|----X----|---(3)---|----0----|----0----|
B|----3----|----3----|----3----|----3----|----4----|----0----|----3----|
G|----2----|----4----|----0----|----0----|----3----|----2----|----0----|
D|----0----|----0----|----0----|----0----|----5----|----0----|----0----|
A|----X----|----2----|----3----|----X----|----3----|----X----|----1----|
E|----X----|----X----|----X----|----3----|----X----|----X----|----X----|

Dsus2 - Bm3 - Cadd9   Dsus2 - Bm3 - G5

Dsus2 - Bm3 - Cadd9   Dsus2 - Bm3 - G5


Dsus2      Bm3       Cadd9     Dsus2
West of Chicago, the prairie begins,
    Dsus2      Bm3      Cadd9    G5
And all of the mad pandemonium ends.
    Dsus2         Bm3           Cadd9         Dsus2
The fleecing, the fighting, the grifting, the lies
     Cadd9      Bm3            G5         Dsus2 - Bm3 - Cadd9   Dsus2 - Bm3 - G5
Give way to the tall grass and infinite skies.


Dsus2   Bm3              Cadd9        Dsus2
Eleanor lived there in a house on the plains
          Dsus2       Bm3               Cadd9           G5
Where the winter, the wheat fields, the corn fields and grains
         Dsus2       Bm3        Cadd9       Dsus2
Made its own kind of music that only she heard,
    Cadd9         Bm3     G5          Dsus2 - Bm3 - Cadd9
And each note for Eleanor had its own word.


          Bm7            F#m7
Eleanor's song whispers along
            G           G/F#   Em
High in the breeze, the trees, endlessly
            Bm7                  F#7
Filling the holes in heartbroken souls.
G   G/F# Em            Cm7
Oh, oh,  tell me more,
        Dsus2 - D6sus2 - Cm7
Please, Eleanor,
      Dsus2 - Bm3 - Cadd9   Dsus2 - Bm3 - G5
Sweet Eleanor.

She knew no religion but she didn't care.
The earth was her church and her song was a prayer.
She sang to the starlight, the moon and the sun,
And under the thunderclouds timpani drum.

Sometimes late at night when the trees are in motion,
The fields are alive and wild as the ocean.
Sending a chill from my head to my toes
If I just stay still and listen real close.

Eleanor's song whispers along
High in the breeze, the trees, endlessly
Filling the holes in heartbroken souls.
Oh, oh, tell me more,

        Dsus2 - D6sus2 - Cm7
Please, Eleanor,
      Dsus2 - D6sus2 - Cm7
Sweet Eleanor.
      Dsus2 - Bm3 - Cadd9   Dsus2 - Bm3 - G5
Sweet Eleanor.


Dsus2 - Bm3 - Cadd9   Em7/B   Em7b5/Bb   D

(Words and music by Tom Paxton, Jon Vezner and Don Henry, 2016)

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