Too Many Birds
Bill Callahan
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Tuned a whole step down

Chords: (names relative to tuning)
    G (320003@1) C (x32010@1)Am7D7sus4 D7D|--3---3---3---3---2--| (xx0212@1)A|--0---1---1---1---1--|
F|--0---0---0---2---2--|
C|--0---2---2---0---0--|
G|--2---3---0----------|
D|--3------------------|

The whole song is this chord progression:
G  C  Am7  D7sus4-D7

G (320003@1)      C (x32010@1)          Am7 (x02010@1) D7sus4-D7
Too many birds in one tree
G (320003@1)      C (x32010@1)          Am7 (x02010@1) D7sus4-D7
Too many birds in one tree
G (320003@1)        C (x32010@1)     Am7 (x02010@1)        D7sus4-D7
The sky is full of black and screaming leaves
G (320003@1)        C (x32010@1)     Am7 (x02010@1)               D7sus4-D7
The sky is full of black and screaming

G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1)    Am7 (x02010@1)        D7sus4-D7
And one more bird, then one more bird
G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1)       Am7 (x02010@1)    D7sus4-D7
And one last bird, and another
G (320003@1)           C (x32010@1)       Am7 (x02010@1) D7sus4-D7
One last blackbird, without a place to land
G (320003@1)           C (x32010@1)  Am7 (x02010@1)     D7sus4-D7
One last blackbird without a place to be
G (320003@1)     C (x32010@1)   Am7 (x02010@1)       D7sus4-D7
Turns around, in hopes to find
G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1)       Am7 (x02010@1)  D7sus4-D7
The place it last knew rest

G (320003@1)      C (x32010@1)  Am7 (x02010@1)       D7sus4-D7
Oh blackbird, black rain burn
G (320003@1)     C (x32010@1)       Am7 (x02010@1)         D7sus4-D7
This is not where you last knew rest
G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1)   Am7 (x02010@1)       D7sus4-D7
You fly all night, to sleep on stone
G (320003@1)            C (x32010@1)              Am7 (x02010@1)        D7sus4-D7
That heartless rest that in the morn will be gone
G (320003@1)         C (x32010@1)               Am7You (x02010@1)fly all night to sleep on stone
                 D7sus4-D7
To return to the tree with
         G (320003@1)             C (x32010@1)             Am7 (x02010@1)   D7sus4-D7
Too many birds, too many birds, too many birds

G  C  Am7  D7sus4-D7

G (320003@1)    C (x32010@1)  Am7 (x02010@1)   D7sus4-D7
If, if you, if you could
G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1)   Am7 (x02010@1) D7sus4-D7
If you could only
G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1)      Am7 (x02010@1) D7sus4-D7
If you could only stop
G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1)       Am7 (x02010@1) D7sus4-D7
If you could only stop your
G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1)            Am7 (x02010@1)  D7sus4-D7
If you could only stop your heart
G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1)            Am7 (x02010@1)    D7sus4-D7
If you could only stop your heartbeat
G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1)            Am7 (x02010@1)       D7sus4-D7
If you could only stop your heartbeat for
G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1)            Am7 (x02010@1)         D7sus4-D7
If you could only stop your heartbeat for one heart
G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1)            Am7 (x02010@1)            D7sus4-D7
If you could only stop your heartbeat for one heartbeat

G  C  Am7  D7sus4-D7
End on G.