Cardiacs – Flap Off You Beak (Guitar)

A   E        A     E      A
All nineteen birds flying fast up

E        A         E        B  F#  A  E  A  E
They are dead they are not alive

A   E        A    E       A
Bad bird you flap off you beak

E        A      E          B  F#  A  E  A  E
High and mighty beady bird eye

A           D        F      G          A
Featherless me and I be all glad on my own

   D       F         G     D#
Doggy-eyed graceless in my home

G#       C#
Steps in wire

F#       B      E          A  E  A  E
High and mighty beady bird eye

             B  F#  A  E  A  E
They're not alive

A    E      A          E       A           E
They eat no love, they curl up in their hollow tree

A            E        B   F#     A  E  A  E
And leak the sap that bad birds do

A     D       F        G               A
Poison in the drops of black and white pearl

D          F        G       D#
On the 'leaving the cinema' girl

G#       C#
Steps in wire

F#       B      E          A  E  A  E
High and mighty beady bird eye

             B  F#  A  E  A  E
They're not alive

A               B        C            E
Don't linger on not pure gold in your hand

A             B      C      E
And fly again to the end of England

C#  G#    B  F#  D       F     B    A#  F#   
Sad birds flying through the famous London fog

A#   F#   A#  F#
There is no God

      B   F#  A  E  A  E
There is no 'alive'

        B   F#  A  E  A  E
In my menagerie

C#  G#    B    F#  D   F  B
Sad birds they are not alive

    A#    F#      A#      F#
Nineteen birds flying fast up

A#   F#  B   F# A  E  A  E
They are not alive

             B  F#  A  E  A  E
They're not alive

             B  F#  A  E  A  E
They're not alive

B  F#  A  E  A  E
(chords repeat - fade out)