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                             Sifters - Andrew Bird
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Capo 4

Intro
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0---------------------------|
A|---3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3----repeat x4----------------|
E|-3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-------------------------------|

Verse


   Sound is a wave like a wave on the ocean
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----0----0---------0-----0---------0-----0---------0-----0----------------|
A|---3----3-----3---3-----3-----3---3-----3-----3---3-----3-----3------------|
E|-3----3-----3---3-----3-----3---3-----3-----3---3-----3-----3--------------|


   Moon plays the ocean like a vio-lin
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------1----1----1---------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------0--0----0----0-0------|
D|-----0----0---------0-----0---------0-----0--------2-----2----2----2-------|
A|---3----3-----3---3-----3-----3---2-----2-----2--3--------3----3-----------|
E|-3----3-----3---3-----3-----3---3-----3-----3------------------------------|


   Pushing and pulling from shore to shore, biggest melody you never heard be-
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--|
D|---2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1----|


  -fore, what if I were the night sky, what if I were the night sky, here's my lullaby
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B|------1-----1-----1-----------1-----1-----1--------------------------------|
G|---0-----0-----0-----0--0--0-----0-----0-----0--0---0-----0-----0-----0----|
D|-------------------------------------------------------2-----2-----2-----2-|
A|-3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3----------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3---1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1---|

Follow this picking pattern throughout.


Chords:

   C/G 

e|-----|
B|--1--|
G|--0--|
D|--0--|
A|--3--|
E|--3--|

   C/F

e|-----|
B|--1--|
G|--0--|
D|--2--|
A|--3--|
E|--1--|

    C

e|--0--|
B|--1--|
G|--0--|
D|--2--|
A|--3--|
E|-----|

    G
 
e|-----|
B|--0--|
G|--0--|
D|--0--|
A|--2--|
E|--3--|

   Am

e|--0--|
B|--1--|
G|--2--|
D|--2--|
A|--0--|
E|-----|


C/G
Sound is a wave like a wave on the ocean

C/G                            G    C
Moon plays the ocean like a violin
 
C/F
Pushing and pulling from shore to shore, 

C/F                            C
Biggest melody you never heard before.

                   G
What if I were the night sky?
                   
                   C/F 
What if I were the night sky?

            C                  G
It's my lullaby; My lullaby to leave by

           C/F
Lullaby to leave by.

              C 
If I were the night



C/G 
What if we hadn't been born at the same time
 
C/G                     G      C
What if you were 75 and I were 9?

C/F
Would I come visit you?
 
                                   C
Bring you cookies in an old folks' home

                   G
Would you be there alone?
 
         Am
When the late summer lightning fires off in your arms

                                  C
Will I remember to breathe? No, I never will.

   Am
If I could convince you that I mean you no harm

                        C
Just wanna show you how not to need

                  G         C/F
If i were the the night sky...  and if i were the night sky

             C
Heres my lullaby

              G         C/F
My lullaby to leave by
              
              C
If i were the night


C/G x4 G C (let ring)

                                                   C (let ring)
What if we hadn't been each other at the same time

                                                                     C/F
Would you tell me all the stories from when you're young and in your prime


Would I rock you to sleep

                                                    C
Would you tell me all the secrets you don't need to keep

              G
Would I still miss you

              C/F            C
Oh, would you then have been mine?

C/G
Sound is a wave like a wave on the ocean

                                    G (let ring)
Moon plays the ocean like a violin