Sifters tab by Andrew Bird

Tabs

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice

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               Sifters - Andrew Bird
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Capo 4

Intro
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0---------------------------|
A augmentedA|---3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3----repeat x4----------------|
E MajorE|-3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-------------------------------|

Verse

Sound is a wave like a wave on the ocean
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-----0----0---------0-----0---------0-----0---------0-----0----------------|
A augmentedA|---3----3-----3---3-----3-----3---3-----3-----3---3-----3-----3------------|
E MajorE|-3----3-----3---3-----3-----3---3-----3-----3---3-----3-----3--------------|

Moon plays the ocean like a vio-lin
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|-------------------------------------------------------1----1----1---------|
G+G|-----------------------------------------------------0--0----0----0-0------|
D MajorD|-----0----0---------0-----0---------0-----0--------2-----2----2----2-------|
A augmentedA|---3----3-----3---3-----3-----3---2-----2-----2--3--------3----3-----------|
E MajorE|-3----3-----3---3-----3-----3---3-----3-----3------------------------------|

Pushing and pulling from shore to shore, biggest melody you never heard be-
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|---0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--|
D MajorD|---2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|-1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1----|

-fore, what if I were the night sky, what if I were the night sky, here's my lullaby
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|------1-----1-----1-----------1-----1-----1--------------------------------|
G+G|---0-----0-----0-----0--0--0-----0-----0-----0--0---0-----0-----0-----0----|
D MajorD|-------------------------------------------------------2-----2-----2-----2-|
A augmentedA|-3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3----------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|-------------------------3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3---1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1---|

Follow this picking pattern throughout.

Chords:

C/GC/G

e|-----|
BB|--1--|
G+G|--0--|
D MajorD|--0--|
A augmentedA|--3--|
E MajorE|--3--|

C/FC/F

e|-----|
BB|--1--|
G+G|--0--|
D MajorD|--2--|
A augmentedA|--3--|
E MajorE|--1--|

C majorC

e|--0--|
BB|--1--|
G+G|--0--|
D MajorD|--2--|
A augmentedA|--3--|
E MajorE|-----|

G+G

e|-----|
BB|--0--|
G+G|--0--|
D MajorD|--0--|
A augmentedA|--2--|
E MajorE|--3--|

A minorAm

e|--0--|
BB|--1--|
G+G|--2--|
D MajorD|--2--|
A augmentedA|--0--|
E MajorE|-----|

C/GC/G
Sound is a wave like a wave on the ocean

C/GC/G              G+G  C majorC
Moon plays the ocean like a violin

C/FC/F
Pushing and pulling from shore to shore,

C/FC/F              C majorC
Biggest melody you never heard before.

G+G
What if I were the night sky?

          C/FC/F
What if I were the night sky?

C majorC         G+G
It's my lullaby; My lullaby to leave by

C/FC/F
Lullaby to leave by.

C majorC
If I were the night

C/GC/G
What if we hadn't been born at the same time

C/GC/G           G+G   C majorC
What if you were 75 and I were 9?

C/FC/F
Would I come visit you?

                  C majorC
Bring you cookies in an old folks' home

G+G
Would you be there alone?

     A minorAm
When the late summer lightning fires off in your arms

C majorC
Will I remember to breathe? No, I never will.

A minorAm
If I could convince you that I mean you no harm

C majorC
Just wanna show you how not to need

G+G     C/FC/F
If i were the the night sky... and if i were the night sky

C majorC
Heres my lullaby

G+G     C/FC/F
My lullaby to leave by

       C majorC
If i were the night

C/GC/G x4 G+G C majorC (let ring)

C majorC (let ring)
What if we hadn't been each other at the same time

C/FC/F
Would you tell me all the stories from when you're young and in your prime

Would I rock you to sleep

C majorC
Would you tell me all the secrets you don't need to keep

G+G
Would I still miss you

C/FC/F      C majorC
Oh, would you then have been mine?

C/GC/G
Sound is a wave like a wave on the ocean

G+G (let ring)
Moon plays the ocean like a violin