Eagle on a Pole Lyrics

Eagle On a Pole (version from self titled 1st album "Conor Oberst")
by Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley band
This version was created by mashing up a few of the existing tabs and the
comments/corrections as well as adding a few small things that I picked up
myself. The lyrics were wrong on the other tabs also.
Most of it can be strummed and sounds pretty good if finger picking is not
your thing but I really think the Cmaj -> Em7 -> A#/Am -> Am progression in
"watched its shadow fly 'cross the cement" needs to be played with a
descending arpeggio to sound good.
Please do not assume the Am in the "El cielo es azul" progression is a typo.
I'm pretty sure the A# root note is left out from the other stanze to make
this part sound more powerful and less dissonant.
Let's define some chords. I apologize if I've used the wrong names for some
of these. If you follow these definitions I promise it will all work out.
m
Saw an eagle on a pole
I think it was an eagle
m
Watched its shadow fly 'cross the cement
And I woke up in the snow,
all the trees were crowds of people.
m
No coat, no shoes, no idea where they went.
I followed the fenceline thin,
back where the yard begins
My woman, she stood crying like a man.
Said, where have you been?
Where have you been?
m
I thought you said that all of that was done.
El Cielo es azul,
Just don't go telling everyone
Thought the kettle was a train.
Thought that Monday was a doorframe.
m
Tried so hard to finally settle down.
Heard the fire pop and snap.
Like a tack piano rag.
m
I never could get used to happy sounds.
Yeah, I hope the world's exposed.
A cruel and elaborate hoax.
It convinces me to walk without a cane.
But what can you do?
Child, what can you do?
m
I always heard that what is done is done.
El Cielo es azul,
Just don't go telling everyone
The past don't ever quit.
There's boxes in the attic.
m
Baby shoes and taxidermy dreams.
While the ashes of the dead,
like a dandelion head,
m
explode and then are scattered by the breeze.
We're such a long way back,
to all the fun that I had.
When nothing ever seemed to bother me.
But what can you do?
Brother, what can you do?
m
Sleep 'neath the stars, and toil in the sun.
El Cielo es azul
Just don't go telling everyone
El Cielo es azul
Just don't go telling anyone