Littlest Birds chords by The Be Good Tanyas

Tuning: Standard EBGDAE

Difficulty: intermediate


    C               G      C
Well I feel like an old hobo, I'm sad lonesome and blue,
   F      C     G       C
I was fair as the summer day now the summer days are through.
  F      C     G   C
You pass through places and places pass through you,
    F     C        G       C     F
But you carry 'em with you on the soles of your travellin'
 C G C F C G C F C G
Shoes.

    C      F    C      G
Well I love you so dearly I love you so clearly
 C    F     C     G
I wake you up in the mornin' so early,
    C     F    C     G
Just to tell you I got the wanderin' blues.
C  F    C     G
  I got the wanderin' blues,
  C     F     C    G      C   F  C  G C F C
And I'm gonna quit these ramblin' ways one of these days soon,
  G  C
And I'll sing :


  F    C       G     C
The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs.
  F    C       G     C
The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs.
  F    C       G     C
The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs.
  F    C       G     C
The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs.


F C G (C F C G repeat x2)
INSTRUMENTAL



     C     F    C    G     C
Well it's times like these I feel so small and wild
     F    C       G     C
Like the ramblin' footsteps of a wanderin' child.
F    C       G    C
And i'm lonesome as a lonesome whippoorwill,
F      C      G      C
Singin these blues with a warble and a trill.
F    C    G    C
But i'm not too blue to fly,
F   C    G    C
No i'm not too blue to fly 'cause



  F    C       G     C
The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs.
  F    C       G     C
The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs.
  F    C       G     C
The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs.
  F    C       G     C
The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs.



F C G (C F C G repeat x6)
INSTRUMENTAL


    C      F    C      G
Well I love you so dearly I love you so fearlessly,
C     F     C     G
I wake you up in the mornin' so early
    C     F    C     G
Just to tell you I got the wanderin' blues.
C  F    C     G
  I got the wanderin' blues,
   C      F      C    G      C   F  C  G
And I don't wanna leave you I love you through and through.



   C    F     C      G
Oh I left my baby on a pretty blue train,
   C    F      C      G
And I sang my songs to the cold and the rain.
C    F    C     G
 But I had the wanderin' blues,
C    F     C     G
 And I sang those wanderin' blues.
  C     F     C    G      C   F  C  G C F C
And i'm gonna quit these ramblin' ways one of these days soon,
  G  C
And i'll sing :


  F    C       G     C
The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs.
  F    C       G     C
The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs.
  F    C       G     C
The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs.
  F    C       G     C
The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs.
  F    C       G     C
The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs.
  F    C       G     C
The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs.



F C G  (C F C G repeat x 5) C
INSTRUMENTAL



F    C      G     C
I don't care if the sun don't shine,
F    C    G     C
I don't care if nothin' is mine.
F    C      G      C
I don't care if I'm nervous with you,
F     C       G   C
I'll do my lovin' in the wintertime.