Joe Cocker - Bird On A Wire: chords

        D           A
Like a bird on the wire,
         D                   G
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
         D          A          D  A
I have tried in my way to be free.
        D         A
Like a worm on a hook,
         D                             G
Like a knight from some old fashioned book
        D            A            D   D7
I have saved all my ribbons for thee.
   G                    D   D7
If I, if I have been unkind,
        Em                            D    D7
Well I hope that you can just let it go by.
       G                     D
And if I, if I have been untrue
        Em                            A  A7
Well I hope you know it was never to you.

Like a baby, stillborn
Like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me
But I swear by this song
And by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch
He said to me, "You must not ask for so much."
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door
She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"

Oh like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free