Neutral Milk Hotel – Little Birds (Guitar)

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[Intro]
Am
One two, one two three
Em Am Am Am Am Am Am Am Am Am Am Am Am Am Am G F F G Am Am G F F G E E E [Verse 1]
       Am
Little birds born without a mother or a father

Am
I can feel their feathers forming in the running water

G
Now there is another in the middle of my mouth

  Em
A hundred altogether inside of me now

Am                                           Am
Little birds, little birds come into my body ...
[Verse 2]
Am
Mother, they're within me every moment I'm awaking

Am
Bodies multiplying 'til they finally overtake me

G
Put your ears up to my mouth and you can hear them signing

Em
Put you hand within me and you'll know what I'm feeling

Am                                                    Am
I just want to swallow up and promise to protect them ...
[Verse 3]
Am
Daddy, come towards me, I can see his hands are shaking

Am
Put his hands against me, he could feel their bodies breaking

G
Push me to the floor and put his hands up for a beating

 Em
"I don't want to hear it anymore," he kept repeating

Am                                                       Am
Do you really want the burning hell to come and get you? ...
[Interlude]
Am          F
He eh eh eh eh

               Am
He eh eh eh eh eeh

Am
He eh eh eh eeh

F            E    E
Hhh hh hh hh hhhh
[Verse 4]
Am                                                      Am
Did you see the burning hell, it took your baby brother?

Am                                                      Am
Did you see how far he fell and how he made us suffer?

  G                                                     G
Another boy in town at night he took him for his lover

    Em
And deep in sin they held each other
[Verse 5]
Am
So I took a hammer and nearly beat his little brains in

Am
Knowing God in Heaven, no, could never, could forgive him

                                                       G Em
So I took a hammer and I nearly beat his little brains in
[Verse 6]
Am
Little boy born without a father or a mother

Am
Taken to the river and then pushed into the water

G
And the priests are singing that the hell is getting hotter

Em
La la la la la
[Verse 7]
Am
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him

Am
From the thing he loves the most but we know will betray him

Am                                                G  Em
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him
[Outro]
    Am               G
And here beneath the water I can see

        Em                Am
How the lights distort so strange

    Am                  G                          Em
And this is how I-I-I-I-III would like to leave my body

           Am            Am
And start again eh eh eh eeh
[Outro]
E  Am
Eh eh eh eh eh eeh

Am
Daa da da da da daa daa

Am
Daa daa daa da da daa

Am
Naa na na na na na na naa naa

Am
Eeh eeh eeh eeh eeh eeh eeh eeh

Am
Eh eh eh eh

Am
Aah aah aah aah aah aah aah

Am
Aaah aah aah aah aah aah aaah

Am          G
Aah aah aah aaah aah eey

E
La na na naa naa

Am
Dee di di di di dee di

Am
Di di dee di di dee

Am
Dee dee di di di dee di

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Di di dee di di dee