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Little Birds chords by Neutral Milk Hotel

Chords with lyrics

These chords and lyrics are for the studio version of the song.
For the most part, the strumming goes: Base note, Bass note, Down Strum (with some minor variations).
All chords are played in open position, except for F, which is played in a barred Chord diagramE MajorE shape.


Intro
Chord diagramA minorAm    Chord diagramFF Chord diagramA minorAm Chord diagramFF Chord diagramE minorEm

Chord diagramA minorAm
Little birds born without a mother or a father
Chord diagramA minorAm
I can feel their feathers forming in the running water
Chord diagramG+G
Now there is another in the middle of my mouth
Chord diagramE minorEm
Chord diagramA augmentedA hundred altogether inside of me now
Chord diagramA minorAm
Little birds, little birds, come into my body

Chord diagramA minorAm
Mother, they're within me every moment I'm awaking
Chord diagramA minorAm
Bodies multiplying until they finally overtake me
Chord diagramG+G
Put your ears up to my mouth and you can hear them singing
Chord diagramE minorEm
Put you hands within me and you'll know what I am feeling
Chord diagramA minorAm
I just want to swallow up and promise to protect them

Chord diagramA minorAm
Daddy, come towards me, I can see his hands are shaking
Chord diagramA minorAm
Put his hands against me, he could see their bodies breaking
Chord diagramG+G
Push me to the floor and put his hands up for a beating
Chord diagramE minorEm
"I don't want to hear it anymore," he kept repeating
Chord diagramA minorAm                                                        Chord diagramFF Chord diagramA minorAm Chord diagramFF Chord diagramE minorEm
Do you really want the burning hell to come and get you?

Chord diagramA minorAm
Did you see the burning hell it took your baby brother?
Chord diagramA minorAm
Did you see how far he fell and how he made us suffer?
Chord diagramG+G
Another boy in town at night he took him for his lover
    Chord diagramE minorEm
And deep in sin they held each other
Chord diagramA minorAm
So I took a hammer, nearly beat his little brains in
Chord diagramA minorAm
Knowing God in heaven no could never could forgive him
Chord diagramA minorAm                                           Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramE minorEm
So I took a hammer nearly beat his little brains in

Chord diagramA minorAm
Little boy born without a mother or a father
Chord diagramA minorAm
Taken to the river and then pushed into the water
Chord diagramG+G                                                            Chord diagramE minorEm
And the priests are singing that the hell was getting hotter
Chord diagramA minorAm
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him
Chord diagramA minorAm
From the thing he loves the most but we know will betray him
Chord diagramA minorAm                                                Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramE minorEm
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him

Chord diagramA minorAm                   Chord diagramG+G
And here beneath the water I can see
       Chord diagramE minorEm                 Chord diagramA minorAm
How the light distorts so strange
Chord diagramA minorAm               Chord diagramG+G                      Chord diagramE minorEm
And this is how I would like to leave my body
           Chord diagramA minorAm
And start again

Outro:
Chord diagramA minorAm     Chord diagramG+G Chord diagramE minorEm Chord diagramA minorAm

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