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Selling Rope Swan Dive To Estuary Chords by Los Campesinos!

Selling Rope Swan Dive To Estuary chords by Los Campesinos!

Guitar chords with lyrics

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

Intro: C

      F          Am      C            F             Am          C
As I swan dive into the estuary, the birds do not flinch at my fall
       F             G       Am              C         F             Dm     C
They perch in the rafters, before, during, after: They do not notice me at all


       F          Am      C             F        Am      C
As I float down into the estuary, wind cases my body in cool
    F            G              Am            C           F          Dm      C
I smell petrol fumes, see the smoke rise in plumes: The earth is one big fireball
      F          Dm      C
The earth is one big fireball

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


   F            Am           C            F         Am        C
As I break the film of the estuary, the seaweed submerges my form
    F            G            Am         C            F         Dm         C
No passing cars stop, not a single jaw drops, as my wallet and keys sink before
    F           Dm          C
A splash all I left in the world


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


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


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


F           G               Am             C
Oh I was a bird right then, one day I will be again
F                  Dm                          C
I've been telling jokes while selling rope to you
F           G               Am             C
Oh I was a bird right then, one day I will be again
F                  Dm                          C
I've been telling jokes while selling rope to you

(at 3:59) C  Am x5
(at 4:53) Dm  C x4


F           G               Am             C
Oh I was a bird right then, one day I will be again
F                  Dm                          C
I've been telling jokes while selling rope to you
F           G               Am             C
Oh I was a bird right then, one day I will be again
F                  Dm                          C
I've been telling jokes while selling rope to you

            F                G
There's no ticker-tape, no pearly gates
     Am              C
No carnival and no parade
      F   Dm        C
Just one, one for sorrow
             F               G
There's no ticker-tape, no pearly gates
     Am              C
No carnival and no parade
      F   Dm        C
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