• Song:

    Flightless Bird American Mouth

  • Artist:

    Iron And Wine

Standard tuning, no capo! In the key of G; follows the pattern G, Em, C, D all
the way through. Simples ;)

Flightless Bird, American Mouth
by Iron & Wine

Verse 1:

         GI (320003@1)was a quick wet boy

            EmDiving (022000@1)too deep for coins

            CAll (x32010@1)of your straight blind eyes

          DWide (xx0232@1)on my plastic toys

             GAnd (320003@1)when the cops closed the fair

          EmI (022000@1)cut my long baby hair

           CStole (x32010@1)me a dog-eared map

                  DAnd (xx0232@1)called for you everywhere


Chorus:

        GHave (320003@1)I found you?

           Em (022000@1)   C (x32010@1)      DFlightless (xx0232@1)bird, jealous, weeping


GOr (320003@1)lost you?

EmAmerican (022000@1)mouth

C (x32010@1)       DBig (xx0232@1)bill looming


Verse 2:

           GNow (320003@1)I'm a fat house cat

            EmCursing (022000@1)my sore blunt tongue

             CWatching (x32010@1)the warm poison rats

                  DCurl (xx0232@1)through the wide fence cracks

           GPissing (320003@1)on magazine photos

      Em (022000@1)                        CThose (x32010@1)fishing lures thrown in the cold and clean

               DBlood (xx0232@1)of Christ mountain stream


Chorus:

GHave (320003@1)I found you?

Em (022000@1)             C (x32010@1)        DFlightless (xx0232@1)bird, brown hair bleeding

GOr (320003@1)lost you?

EmAmerican (022000@1)mouth

C (x32010@1)       DBig (xx0232@1)bill, still going down...


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