Selling Rope Swan Dive To Estuary chords by Los Campesinos

Chords with lyrics

This is how I play the song:
(Corrections or suggestions welcome!)

Intro: C majorC

   FF     A minorAm   C majorC      FF       A minorAm     C majorC
As I swan dive into the estuary, the birds do not flinch at my fall
    FF       G+G    A minorAm       C majorC     FF       DmDm   C majorC
They perch in the rafters, before, during, after: They do not notice me at all


    FF     A minorAm   C majorC       FF    A minorAm   C majorC
As I float down into the estuary, wind cases my body in cool
  FF      G+G       A minorAm      C majorC      FF     DmDm   C majorC
I smell petrol fumes, see the smoke rise in plumes: The earth is one big fireball
   FF     DmDm   C majorC
The earth is one big fireball

G+G  C majorC
Anecdote, lie
G+G    C majorC
My own alibi
FF     G+G    C majorC
I've been telling jokes
G+G   C majorC
Piled notes high
G+G    C majorC
My own alibi
FF     G+G    C majorC
I've been selling rope


  FF      A minorAm      C majorC      FF     A minorAm    C majorC
As I break the film of the estuary, the seaweed submerges my form
  FF      G+G      A minorAm     C majorC      FF     DmDm     C majorC
No passing cars stop, not a single jaw drops, as my wallet and keys sink before
  FF      DmDm     C majorC
A augmentedA splash all I left in the world


G+G  C majorC
Anecdote, lie
G+G    C majorC
My own alibi
FF      G+G   C majorC
I've been telling jokes
G+G   C majorC
Piled notes high
G+G    C majorC
My own alibi
FF      G+G   C majorC
I've been selling rope

   FF    G+G      A minorAm     C majorC       FF      DmDm      C majorC
Once held a magpie in the palm of my hand and the blood in our veins flowed faster, as I'd planned
    FF       G+G     A minorAm      C majorC      FF       DmDm       C majorC
Got a heart full of love and a head full of more but a fist full of threads from the seams
  FF     DmDm      C majorC
And I saw a smile in that beak


G+G  C majorC
Anecdote, lie
G+G    C majorC
My own alibi
FF      G+G   C majorC
I've been telling jokes
G+G   C majorC
Piled notes high
G+G    C majorC
My own alibi
FF      G+G   C majorC
I've been selling rope


FF      G+G        A minorAm       C majorC
Oh I was a bird right then, one day I will be again
FF         DmDm             C majorC
I've been telling jokes while selling rope to you
FF      G+G        A minorAm       C majorC
Oh I was a bird right then, one day I will be again
FF         DmDm             C majorC
I've been telling jokes while selling rope to you

(at 3:59) C majorC A minorAm x5
(at 4:53) DmDm C majorC x4


FF      G+G        A minorAm       C majorC
Oh I was a bird right then, one day I will be again
FF         DmDm             C majorC
I've been telling jokes while selling rope to you
FF      G+G        A minorAm       C majorC
Oh I was a bird right then, one day I will be again
FF         DmDm             C majorC
I've been telling jokes while selling rope to you

      FF        G+G
There's no ticker-tape, no pearly gates
   A minorAm       C majorC
No carnival and no parade
   FF  DmDm    C majorC
Just one, one for sorrow
       FF        G+G
There's no ticker-tape, no pearly gates
   A minorAm       C majorC
No carnival and no parade
   FF  DmDm    C majorC