Flightless Bird, American Mouth Uke tab by Iron And Wine

4 Chords used in the song: Eb, Cm, Ab, Bb

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Year:  2007
Difficulty: 
5
(Intermediate)
Key: Eb, CmChords
Eb chordEb
I was a quick, wet boy,
Cm chordCm
Diving too deep for coins
Ab chordAb
All of your street light eyes,
Bb chordBb
Wide on my plastic toys
Eb chordEb
And when the cops closed the fair
Cm chordCm
I cut my long baby hair
Ab chordAb
Stole me a dog-eared map
Bb chordBb
And called for you everywhere


Eb chordEb
Have I found you?
Cm chordCm Ab chordAb Bb chordBb
Flightless bird, jealous, weeping
Eb chordEb
Or lost you?
Cm chordCm
American mouth
Ab chordAb Bb chordBb
Big pill, looming


Eb chordEb
Now I'm a fat house cat
Cm chordCm
Nursing my sore blunt tongue
Ab chordAb
Watching the warm poison rats
Bb chordBb
Curl through the wide fence cracks
Eb chordEb
Pissing on magazine
Cm chordCm
Photos those fishing lures
Ab chordAb
Thrown in the cold and clean
Bb chordBb
Blood of Christ mountain stream


Eb chordEb
Have I found you?
Cm chordCm Ab chordAb Bb chordBb
Flightless bird, grounded, bleeding
Eb chordEb
Or lost you?
Cm chordCm
American mouth
Ab chordAb Bb chordBb ...Eb
Big pill stuck going down

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thelauriegee avatar
I thought the same thing about the Ab cord! It was totally wrong.
Turns out I was just reading the tab wrong....
That lil 3 means 3rd fret.
PLay it like that and it works.
04 Apr 2019
Correction
breanna4 avatar
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Really nice tab, sounds great when plucking the chords using the C string then adding the last two strings E&A as a pair at the end. Example: C EA EA C EA EA...
25 Jul 2009
Correction
mialovescarl avatar
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the tabs are pretty good =) i dont know about the "Ab" chord kinda different
24 Jun 2009
Correction

About this song: Flightless Bird, American Mouth

This song is beautiful. I first heard it in Twilight and have found that I love Iron and Wine, what a wonderful band and a beautiful song!

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