Oh Songbird chords by Johnny Manchild And The Poor Idiots

Chords with lyrics

Strumming: Suggested ↓x ↓x ↓x ↓x
Tuning: Standard

🎸 Intro:

E minorEm


🎸 Verse:

E minorEm
  I keep my distance

out of deference

it happens of course
E minorEm
  But frequency of

this is dominating every discourse
E minorEm             E minorEm
  I understand but comprehension leaves

more to be desired
C majorC       G+G        BB
  The common sense is rinsed and
    A minorAm
since this realization I find
E minorEm       C majorC     C#dimC#dim
  I’m growing tired uninspired by
  G+G     BB
the bicker and bench
E minorEm       C majorC        C#dimC#dim
  It grows and feeds like a disease until
  G+G       BB
I bleed from the itch
E minorEm       C majorC       C#dimC#dim
  Unearthing each and every hollow body,
 G+G    BB
 raising the lich
E minorEm       C majorC        C#dimC#dim
  The ways of old are new and bold and
    N.C
we are governed by it


🎸 Chorus:

G+G
  The world is dark these days
Fadd6
  And all the larks are caged
  C majorC
in silence
      Cm/Eb  Cm/G Cm/Eb
They’ve no heart  to   sing
G+G
  This too shall come to pass
Fadd6
  This is not built to last
   C majorC
Oh songbirds
Cm/Eb
Find me in the spring

🎸 Instrumental:

E minorEm C majorC C#dimC#dim G+G BB
E minorEm C majorC C#dimC#dim G+G BB
E minorEm C majorC C#dimC#dim G+G BB
E minorEm C majorC C#dimC#dim G+G BB


Intermision:

E minorEm


🎸 Bridge:

E minorEm
  And my affliction
D MajorD
  Is all the world is facing
A/C#A/C#
  When all is undone
C majorC
  We all outstretch embracing
E minorEm
  A augmentedA distant notion
D MajorD
  Of something worth remembering
A/C#A/C#
  Of all that can be done
C majorC
  Of all that’s left worth saving


🎸 Verse:

E minorEm      C majorC
  I’m one of many each and
C#dimC#dim    G+G    BB
everyone is striking the match
E minorEm      C majorC       C#dimC#dim
  Intent on burning every wretch until
   G+G   BB
they wither to ash
E minorEm     C majorC        C#dimC#dim
  To tolerate the squalor built by
    G+G  BB
the intolerant begs
E minorEm      C majorC     C#dimC#dim
  To be complicit in cementing
  N.C     A minorAm
our place in the dregs
    C majorC
Listen in keep an ear to the ground
     A minorAm     C majorC
When it ends, listen in and

follow the sound


🎸 Chorus:

G+G
  The world is dark these days
Fadd6
  And all the larks are caged
  C majorC
in silence
      Cm/Eb  Cm/G Cm/Eb
They’ve no heart  to   sing
G+G
  This too shall come to pass
Fadd6
  This is not built to last
   C majorC
Oh songbirds
Cm/Eb
Find me in the spring



Intermission:

E minorEm


🎸 Solo:

G+G Fadd6 C majorC C minorCm
G+G Fadd6 C majorC C minorCm
N.C.
Find me in the spring!


🎸 Instrumental:

E minorEm C majorC C#dimC#dim G+G BB
E minorEm C majorC C#dimC#dim G+G BB


Breakdown:

BB
E minorEm


Chords used in Oh Songbird by Johnny Manchild and The Poor Idiots:
Em, C, G, B, Am, C#dim, Fadd6, Cm/Eb, Cm/G, D, A/C#, C minorCm