Flightless Bird, American Mouth — Iron & Wine
Chords and lyrics for Flightless Bird, American Mouth by Iron & Wine (key of D).
Verse 1
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Iron & Wine (feat. Andrew Bird)
This is the version Iron & Wine played with Andrew Bird at the NPR Tiny
Desk Concert
and it differs from his other versions by being tuned lower in Drop D Flat
while played using open chords that have a different shape than the other
versions.
Chords
Bm 1010x800
A 88x7xx
A6 88x780
G 55040x
Verse 1
I was a [Dmaj7]quick, wet boy, diving too [Bm]deep for coins
[A]All of your [G]streetlight eyes wide on my [A6]plastic toys
Then when the [Dmaj7]cops closed the fair
I cut my [Bm]long baby hair
[A]Stole me a [G]dog-eared map and called for you [A6]everywhere
Chorus
Have I [Dmaj7]found you, [Bm]flightless bird?[A]
[G]Jealous, [A6]weeping
Or [Dmaj7]lost you, [Bm]American mouth?[A]
[G]Big pill [A6]looming[A6]
Solo
[Dmaj7] [Bm] [A] [G] [A6]
[Dmaj7] [Bm] [A] [G] [A6]
Verse 2
I was a fat [Dmaj7]house cat
Nursing my [Bm]sore blunt tongue
[A]Watching the [G]warm poison rats
Curl through the [A6]wide fence cracks
Pissing on [Dmaj7]magazine
[Bm]Oh, photos those fishing lures
[A]thrown in the [G]cold and clean
blood of [A6]Christ mountain stream
Chorus
Have I [Dmaj7]found you, [Bm]flightless bird?[A]
[G]Jealous, [A6]weeping
Or [Dmaj7]lost you, [Bm]American mouth?[A]
[G]Big pill [A6]stop going now
Coda
[Dmaj7] [Bm] [A] [G] [A6]
[Dmaj7] [Bm] [A] [G] [A6]
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