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Flightless Bird American Mouth

Iron & Wine
ChordsKeyCCapoFret 3beginner52 BPM
4.9(3k)

Chords in this song4

capo 3 — sounds 3 semitones higher

Verse 1

I was a quick wet boy
Diving too deep for coins
All of your street light eyes
Wide on my plastic toys
And when the cops closed the fair
I cut my long baby hair
Stole me a dog-eared map
And called for you everywhere

Chorus

Have I found you?
Flightless bird, jealous, weeping
Or lost you?
American mouth
Big pill looming

Verse 2

Now I’m a fat house cat
Nursing my sore blunt tongue
Watching the warm poison rats
Curl through the wide fence cracks
Pissing on magazine
Photos, those fishing lures
Thrown in the cold and clean
Blood of Christ mountain stream

Chorus

Have I found you?
Flightless bird, grounded, bleeding
Or lost you?
American mouth
Big pill, stuck going down

Outro

   
C Am F G x3
 

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