Iron & Wine  ?  Bird Stealing Bread   ( Live Norfolk Version )    
              
Standard Tuning

( D# - x 6 8 8 x x x )      ( G# - 6 8 8 x x x )       ( F - x 8 10 10 x x )
 
    *****Album version ( Verse B - F# ) ( Chorus B - C# - F#)******

Intro - D# - G#   ( x 4 )
 
D#                       G#               D#                     
  tell me, baby, tell me-ee     are you still on the stoop   
                  G#
watching the wind-ows close?        
D#                           G#               D#                   
  i've not seen you lately ? yy      on the street by the beach    
                     G#
or places we used to-oo go 

 
       D#                         F                         G#
i've a picture of you    on our f-ay-vorite day    by the  sea  side 
           D#                            F                          G#
there's a bird stealing bread    that i brought  out from under my nose 

D#                        G#              D#
   tell me, baby, tell me-ee   does his company make 
                 G#
light of a rainy-yy day? 
D#                           G#           D# 
  how i've missed you lately-yy   and the way we would speak     
                     G#
and all that we wouldn't say 

       D#                           F                           G#
Do his hands in your hair    feel a lot like a thing     you believe in 
      D#                           F                          G#
 or a bit like a bird     stealing bread out from under your nose? 

D#*                       G#*           D#*         
  tell me, baby, tell me-eeee   do you carry the words    
                   G#*  
around like a key or change? 
D#*                         G#*           D#*
  i've been thinking lately-yyy    of a night on the stoop    and all that 
        G#*
we wouldn't say 

     D#                       F                           G#
if i see you again    on the street by the beach   in the evening 
         D#                         F                       G#
will you fly like a bird   stealing bread out from under my nose?

Jace Crawford      www.youtube.com/jacecrawford