• Song:

    Flightless Bird American Mouth

  • Artist:

    Iron And Wine

This is all very simple. The whole song follows this same pattern: Am, C, F, G. It's
on the 3rd fret, and these chords are relative to the capo.

It's 3/4 timing, like a waltz, so strum appropriately. Each chord gets exactly 4 
and this does not change.

Flightless Bird, American Mouth
by Iron & Wine

Verse 1:

         CI (x32010@1)was a quick wet boy

            AmDiving (x02210@1)too deep for coins

            FAll (133211@1)of your straight blind eyes

          GWide (320003@1)on my plastic toys

             CAnd (x32010@1)when the cops closed the fair

          AmI (x02210@1)cut my long baby hair

           FStole (133211@1)me a dog-eared map

                  GAnd (320003@1)called for you everywhere


Chorus:

        CHave (x32010@1)I found you?

           Am (x02210@1)   F (133211@1)      GFlightless (320003@1)bird, jealous, weeping


COr (x32010@1)lost you?

AmAmerican (x02210@1)mouth

F (133211@1)       GBig (320003@1)bill looming


Verse 2:

           CNow (x32010@1)I'm a fat house cat

            AmCursing (x02210@1)my sore blunt tongue

             FWatching (133211@1)the warm poison rats

                  GCurl (320003@1)through the wide/white fence cracks

           CKissing (x32010@1)on magazine photos

      Am (x02210@1)                        FThose (133211@1)fishing lures thrown in the cold and clean

               GBlood (320003@1)of Christ mountain stream


Chorus:

CHave (x32010@1)I found you?

Am (x02210@1)             F (133211@1)        GFlightless (320003@1)bird, brown hair bleeding

COr (x32010@1)lost you?

AmAmerican (x02210@1)mouth

F (133211@1)       GBig (320003@1)bill, still going down

Show more