Flightless Bird, American Mouth Chords

KeyEb Capo3st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays847

Flightless Bird, American Mouth by Iron & Wine is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Eb with a capo on the 3st fret. It uses the chords C, Am, F and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Eb
Text
16
Speed
  			Verse1  

I was a quick wet boy  
         C  

Diving to deep for coins  
          Am  

All of your straight blind eyes   
            F  

Wide on my plastic toys  
          G  

And when the cops closed the fair  
             C  

I cut my long baby hair  
         Am  

Stole me a dog-eared map  
           F  

And called for you everywhere  
                   G  

Chorus  

Have i found you?  
        C  

Flightless bird, jealous, weeping  
           Am     F        G  

Or lost you?  
C  

American mouth  
Am  

Big bill, looming  
F          G  

Verse 2  

Now i'm a fat house cat  
           C  

Cursing my sore blunt tongue  
           Am  

Watching the warm poisen rats  
             F  

Curl thorough the wide fence cracks  
                   G  

Kissing on magazine photos  
           C  

Those fishing lures thrown in the cold and clean  
      Am                          F  

Blood of Christ mountain stream  
                G  

Chorus  

Have i found you?  
C  

Flightless bird, brown hair bleeding  
Am               F          G  

Or lost you?  
C  

American mouth  
Am  

Big bill, still going down   
F         G  

    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante