Cornfield Ablaze By Paddy McAloon Tuning: Normal Chords used Verse chords: A2/D XX0200 A/D XX0220 F#m7 XX4220 E XX2100 Chorus chords: Bm7 X24232 E/G# 4X245X F#m 244222 E6 022120 Over "Cornfield Ablaze!" F#m7 24425X Bm7 X2423X Additional: D/E XX2232 INTRO: A2/D A/D F#m E (x2) A2/D A/D I saw you from the trac -tor, the harvest had begun F#m7 E You were the love child of two gods - I was the farmers awkward son A2/D A/D You left Mount Ol- ym -pus to find your soul mate F#m7 E I left a scribbled note, quote - "Dear Pa, this here harvest can wait" CHORUS: Bm7 E/G# F#m Bm7 You took a match to my dry August days (Bm7) E/G# F#m E6 Cornfield ablaze, cornfield ablaze Bm7 E/G# F#m Bm7 Flames licked the sky, that was some summer haze (Bm7) E/G# F#m E6 Cornfield ablaze, cornfield ablaze Bm7 E/G# F#m Bm7 How do I love you ? Let me count the ways - F#m7 Bm7 F#m7 Bm7 Cornfield ablaze ! A2/D A/D Pa don't be an- gry, the fields that were host F#m7 E To the corn and the wheat - the fact is they're toast A2/D A/D In self def -ence I'm obliged to point out F#m7 E There'll always be a risk of combustion when there's been a drought. (Chorus) E/G# F#m7 D/E E/G# Imagine if the firemen worked and worked for days F#m7 A2/D A/D F#m7 E (as intro) And still the cornfield stayed ablaze . . . A2/D A/D Her hair it was gol -den, her hair it was yarn F#m7 E We were playing with fire in the number one barn A2/D A/D Car -ried a- way like two sparks on a breeze F#m7 E Then we fused into one at a thousand degrees! Bm7 E/G# F#m Bm7 You overwhelmed agricultural man (Bm7) E/G# F#m E6 Cornfield ablaze, cornfield ablaze Bm7 E/G# F#m Bm7 You wild pyro -man -iac daughter of Pan (Bm7) E/G# F#m E6 Cornfield ablaze, cornfield ablaze Bm7 E/G# F#m Bm7 You took a scarecrow and made him a man F#m7 Bm7 F#m7 Bm7 Cornfield ablaze ! F#m7 Bm7 Cornfield ablaze ! (x3) F#m7 Bm7 (repeat to the sound of blazing corn)