This song has a lovely little finger picking part ..... well worth
    working out for yourself

        please rate if you like it
                                       flatwound




                                RICE BIRDS
                         **** CAPO 1st FRET ****

    Are we about ready,    All right,   Rice birds


            C                       F          C     C
    I was thinkin' of you when the rice birds flew
               C                    F      C     C
    When the false dawn came with morning dew
                G                        C    F    F
    You're a thunderstorm ragin' outside my garage
                 C                             F     C    C
    You're the white shirt peekin' through my camouflage

    INST:   CHORDS AS VERSE

            C                    F      C    C
    I was thinkin' o' you and I won't forget
     C                       F     C   C
    Tail of the turtle and Bayou Tech
        G                 C       F    F
    I cannot dance but I can hang on
        C                       F   C    C
    To some sweet memory up in Oberlin

             C                     F     C    C
    I was thinkin' o' you at the Mardi Grais
      C                       F    C    C
    Fords and Chevys like I never saw
        G                     C        F      F
    I wish you were here to dance with me
        C               F    C    C
    To hear this Cajun Symphony

    INST:  C  Am  C   G   C   F   C   C

             C                   F     C    C
    I was thinkin' of you at the L.A. bar
             C                        F       C   C
    Where I got so drunk I couldn't drive my car
             G                        C         F     F
    I was dreamin' about you with my ten ounce beer
               C                      F        C    C
    Dreamin' sweet daydreams wishin' you were here

            C                        F             C    C
    I was thinkin' of you with the braids in your hair
     C                     F    C     C
    Old Houston, Texas or anywhere
             G                         C      F    F
    I was dreamin' about you and my changin' way
        C                            F        C    C
    I still think about you in my travelling days

             C                        F      C    C
    I was thinkin' of you where the sunset glows
                 C                         F         C     C
    Down the Mississippi River where the gulf wind blows
             G                        C       F     F
    I was dreamin' about you in the Fluer-De-Lys
            C               F      C     G     C
    I was wishin' you were next to me