Oh Songbird chords by Johnny Manchild And The Poor Idiots

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

🎸 Intro:

Em


🎸 Verse:

Em
   I keep my distance

out of deference

it happens of course
Em
   But frequency of

this is dominating every discourse
Em                         Em
   I understand but comprehension leaves

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


🎸 Chorus:

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


🎸 Instrumental:

Em C C#dim G B
Em C C#dim G B
Em C C#dim G B
Em C C#dim G B


Intermision:

Em


🎸 Bridge:

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


🎸 Verse:

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

follow the sound


🎸 Chorus:

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




Intermission:

Em



🎸 Solo:

G Fadd6 C Cm
G Fadd6 C Cm
N.C.
Find me in the spring!


🎸 Instrumental:

Em C C#dim G B
Em C C#dim G B


Breakdown:

B
Em


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#, Cm