Poor Blind Birds chords by The Felice Brothers

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: G+G

Difficulty: Novice

Chorus:

  G+G     G7G7       C majorC
We live in a world we can't understand
G+G  D MajorD   C majorC        D MajorD
Poor blind birds, if we're anything
G+G    G7G7      C majorC
And the world is not what it seems
G+G D MajorD     G+G
To poor blind birds

Verse 1:

G+G    G7G7       C majorC
We were laughed out of eden (so they say)
G+G   D MajorD     C majorC   D MajorD
In the wake of our first mistake
G+G     G7G7      C majorC
And no one knew where the road was leading
G+G      D MajorD  C majorC      D MajorD
We spent our days running from maze to maze

Chorus:

  G+G     G7G7       C majorC
We live in a world we can't understand, ooh-ooh-ooh
G+G  D MajorD   C majorC       D MajorD
Poor blind birds, if we're anything
G+G    G7G7      C majorC
And the world is not what it seems, ooh-ooh,ooh
G+G  D MajorD     G+G
To poor blind birds

Verse 2:

G+G       G7G7     C majorC
Since you been dead these seven years
G+G      D MajorD     C majorC          D MajorD
I've seen you twice in a glass of red brandy and ice
G+G   G7G7       C majorC
As the sky filled with gold and spears
G+G     D MajorD   C majorC    D MajorD
And hung a wreath in the house of grief

Chorus:

  G+G     G7G7       C majorC
We live in a world we can't understand, ooh-ooh-ooh
G+G  D MajorD   C majorC       D MajorD
Poor blind birds, if we're anything
G+G    G7G7    C majorC
And the end is not the end, ooh-ooh-ooh
G+G  D MajorD   G+G
For poor blind birds

Verse 3:

G+G    G7G7      C majorC
So I'm leaving on the bus tonight
G+G      D MajorD  C majorC    D MajorD
Through the snow of shanando-ah
G+G   G7G7   C majorC
In this long dream of life
G+G       D MajorD  C majorC      D MajorD
It's a lonely road that leads us home

Chorus:

  G+G     G7G7       C majorC
We live in a world we can't understand, ooh-ooh-ooh
G+G  D MajorD   C majorC       D MajorD
Poor blind birds, if we're anything
G+G    G7G7      C majorC
And the world is not what it seems, ooh-ooh-ooh
G+G  D MajorD   G+G
To poor blind birds

  G+G     G7G7       C majorC
We live in a world we can't understand, ooh-ooh-ooh
G+G  D MajorD   C majorC       D MajorD
Poor blind birds, if we're anything
G+G    G7G7    C majorC
And the end is not the end, ooh-ooh-ooh
G+G  D MajorD   G+G
For poor blind birds

Outro:

G+G  G7G7  C majorC
G+G  D MajorD  C majorC  D MajorD