Iron & Wine – Flightless Bird American Mouth (Guitar)

Capo 3
Key
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Versions (3)

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Chords

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. by Iron & Wine [Verse 1]
        C
I was a quick wet boy

           Am
Diving too deep for coins

            F
All of your street light eyes

          G
Wide on my plastic toys

             C
And when the cops closed the fair

         Am
I cut my long baby hair

           F
Stole me a dog-eared map

                  G
And called for you everywhere
[Chorus]
      C
Have I found you?

Am               F        G
Flightless bird, jealous, weeping

 C
Or lost you?

 Am
American mouth

F        G
Big pill looming
[Verse 2]
          C
Now I’m a fat house cat

           Am
Nursing my sore blunt tongue

             F
Watching the warm poison rats

                 G
Curl through the wide fence cracks

           C
Pissing on magazine

            Am
Photos, those fishing lures

               F
Thrown in the cold and clean

               G
Blood of Christ mountain stream
[Chorus]
      C
Have I found you?

Am               F         G
Flightless bird, grounded, bleeding

 C
Or lost you?

 Am
American mouth

F         G          C    
Big pill, stuck going down  
[Outro] Am F G C Am F G x3 C