Flightless Bird American Mouth Chords

by Iron & Wine
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Difficulty: beginner
Capo: no capo
Author cristy♥twilight 5,916. Last edit on Apr 1, 2016
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C
Am
F
G

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Flightless Bird American Mouth (Wedding Version)
 
 
     Hi there!  This is the re-recorded WEDDING VERSION of
Flightless Bird American Mouth from the Breaking Dawn Part 1
Soundtrack and it's so good!  Complete and total awesomeness!!
Can't wait for the movie!!
 
(**The capo is on 4 for the wedding version only! The
original song is with a capo on 3.  Also, this version is
longer by 23 seconds**)
 
 
 
Standard Tuning w/
*CAPO ON 4*
 
 
(*I single strum the entire 1st
verse and 1st chorus*)
 
        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
And stole me a dog-eared map
                  G
And called for you everywhere
 
 
       C           Am
Have I found you?  Flightless bird
F         G
Jealous,  weeping or
C          Am
Lost you?  American mouth
F
Big pill, 
G
Looming
 
 
 
(*Slow soft strumming through to the end*)
 
          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
Pissin' on magazine 
              Am
Photos, those fishing lures, thrown in the 
F
Cold and clean blood of Christ
G
Mountain stream
 
 
       C           Am
Have I found you?  Flightless bird
F         G
Grounded, bleeding or
C          Am
Lost you?  American mouth
F         G          C
Big pill, stuck going down, 
 
 
Am F G
Oooh..... 
C Am F G
Oooh.... 
C Am F G
Oooh...
C Am F  G  C -once
Oooh....
 
 
Have fun:)
cristy♥twilight
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Flightless Bird American Mouth – Iron & Wine
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