City Bird chords by Jesca Hoop

Chords with lyrics

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

🎸 Intro:
A minorAm


🎸 Verse 1:

A minorAm
City bird
   E minorEm
City bird

Fly away
     A minorAm
From my window
     E7E7
From my window
         A minorAm
'Cause you don't sing
           E minor 7Em7   E7E7
Like the birds from home sing
       A minorAm
Your song is dying

🎸 Verse 2:
                 E MajorE
I set the table for the ghosts in my home
 E minorEm
My home
      E7E7
And pour the wine and raise a glass
     E minorEm        A minorAm
For the guests in my home

🎸 Verse 3:

A minorAm                E minorEm
They enter in, in their skin and in their bones
        E minor 7Em7
Still in their bones
   E7E7          E minor 7Em7
The vision scares, but none compares
              A minorAm
To the dread of drinking alone

🎸 Chorus:

Fmaj7Fmaj7               A minorAm
After the tower was turned to a tomb
FF
The underworld refugees all
A minorAm
Were refused by the banker
     FF
They can never go in
       E MajorE
So I let them in
 E7E7     A minorAm
Ah-ha, city bird

🎸 Verse 4:

   E minorEm
City bird

Fly away
    A minorAm
From my window

From my window
    E7E7     A minorAm
'Cause you don't sing
          E minorEm   E7E7
Like the birds from home sing
       A minorAm
Your song is dying


🎸 Instrumental:

FF G+G (4 times)
FF G+G E MajorE


🎸 Verse 5:

E MajorE      A minorAm           E minor 7Em7
I light the candle for the ghosts in my home
  E7E7
My home

And say a prayer to please send care
    E minorEm      A minorAm
For the guests in my home


🎸 Verse 6:

                  E7E7
But in their sleep, they claw and scream "the Devil home"
E MajorE
"The devil's come home"
   E7E7
But that nightmare does not compare
             A minorAm
To the demons in sleeping alone


🎸 Chorus:

Fmaj7Fmaj7               A minorAm
After the tower was turned to a tomb
FF
The underworld refugees all
A minorAm
Were refused by the banker
     FF
They can never go in
       E MajorE
So I let them in
 E7E7     A minorAm
Ah-ha, city bird

    E minorEm
City bird

Fly away
    A minorAm
From my window
    E minorEm
From my window
    E MajorE      A minorAm
'Cause you don't sing
          E7E7
Like the birds from home sing
    A minorAm
Your song is dying


🎸 Instrumental:

FF G+G (4 times)
FF G+G E MajorE