Andrew Bird – The Sifters (Guitar Tab)

Capo 4

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Chords

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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 Here's 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