Flightless Bird American Mouth chords by Iron & Wine

This is all very simple. The whole song follows this same pattern: Am, C, F, G. It's
on the 3rd fret, and these chords are relative to the capo.

It's 3/4 timing, like a waltz, so strum appropriately. Each chord gets exactly 4
and this does not change.

Flightless Bird, American Mouth
by Iron & Wine

Verse 1:

     C
I was a quick wet boy

      Am
Diving too deep for coins

      F
All of your straight blind eyes

     G
Wide on my plastic toys

       C
And when the cops closed the fair

     Am
I cut my long baby hair

      F
Stole me a dog-eared map

         G
And called for you everywhere


Chorus:

    C
Have I found you?

      Am   F    G
Flightless bird, jealous, weeping


C
Or lost you?

Am
American mouth

F     G
Big bill looming


Verse 2:

      C
Now I'm a fat house cat

      Am
Cursing my sore blunt tongue

       F
Watching the warm poison rats

         G
Curl through the wide/white fence cracks

      C
Kissing on magazine photos

   Am             F
Those fishing lures thrown in the cold and clean

        G
Blood of Christ mountain stream


Chorus:

C
Have I found you?

Am        F     G
Flightless bird, brown hair bleeding

C
Or lost you?

Am
American mouth

F     G
Big bill, still going down