Flightless Bird, American Mouth  by Iron and Wine



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Iron and Wine
Flightless Bird, American Mouth
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Capo III
C  am  F  G  (walk up to C)
[in a nice 6/8 gait]

I was a quick wet boy
Diving too deep for coins 
All of your street light eyes, 
wide on my plastic toys 
And when the cops  closed   the fair 
I cut my long baby hair 
Stole me a dog-eared map 
And called for you everywhere 

Have I found you? 
Flightless bird, 
jealous, 
wee-ee-ping 
Or lost you? 
American mouth 
Big bill 
loo-ming 

Now I'm a fat house cat 
Nursing my sore blunt tongue 
Watching the warm poison rats 
Curl through the wide fence cracks 
Pissing the magazine photos 
Those fishing lures 
Thrown in the cold and clean 
Blood of Christ mountain stream 

Have I found you? 
Flightless bird, 
Grounded
Bleeding 
Or lost you? 
American mouth 
Big bill, 
Stuck going down

[oooh-ooh's with chords]

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thanks to gary sokolow for lyric fixes


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