Flightless Bird American Mouth chords by Iron & Wine

Chords with lyrics

This is all very simple. The whole song follows this same pattern: Am, C, F, G. It's
on the 3rd fret, and these chords are relative to the capo.

It's 3/4 timing, like a waltz, so strum appropriately. Each chord gets exactly 4
and this does not change.

Flightless Bird, American Mouth
by Iron & Wine

Verse 1:

     C majorC
I was a quick wet boy

      A minorAm
Diving too deep for coins

      FF
All of your straight blind eyes

     G+G
Wide on my plastic toys

       C majorC
And when the cops closed the fair

     A minorAm
I cut my long baby hair

      FF
Stole me a dog-eared map

         G+G
And called for you everywhere


Chorus:

    C majorC
Have I found you?

      A minorAm   FF    G+G
Flightless bird, jealous, weeping


C majorC
Or lost you?

A minorAm
American mouth

FF     G+G
Big bill looming

Verse 2:

      C majorC
Now I'm a fat house cat

      A minorAm
Cursing my sore blunt tongue

       FF
Watching the warm poison rats

         G+G
Curl through the wide/white fence cracks

      C majorC
Kissing on magazine photos

   A minorAm             FF
Those fishing lures thrown in the cold and clean

        G+G
Blood of Christ mountain stream


Chorus:

C majorC
Have I found you?

A minorAm        FF     G+G
Flightless bird, brown hair bleeding

C majorC
Or lost you?

A minorAm
American mouth

FF     G+G
Big bill, still going down

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