Oh Songbird chords by Johnny Manchild And The Poor Idiots

Strumming: Suggested ↓x ↓x ↓x ↓x
Tuning: Standard

🎸 Intro:

Em


🎸 Verse:

Em
  I keep my distance

out of deference

it happens of course
Em
  But frequency of

this is dominating every discourse
Em             Em
  I understand but comprehension leaves

more to be desired
C       G        B
  The common sense is rinsed and
    Am
since this realization I find
Em       C     C#dim
  I’m growing tired uninspired by
  G     B
the bicker and bench
Em       C        C#dim
  It grows and feeds like a disease until
  G       B
I bleed from the itch
Em       C       C#dim
  Unearthing each and every hollow body,
 G    B
 raising the lich
Em       C        C#dim
  The ways of old are new and bold and
    N.C
we are governed by it


🎸 Chorus:

G
  The world is dark these days
Fadd6
  And all the larks are caged
  C
in silence
      Cm/Eb  Cm/G Cm/Eb
They’ve no heart  to   sing
G
  This too shall come to pass
Fadd6
  This is not built to last
   C
Oh songbirds
Cm/Eb
Find me in the spring


🎸 Instrumental:

Em C C#dim G B
Em C C#dim G B
Em C C#dim G B
Em C C#dim G B


Intermision:

Em


🎸 Bridge:

Em
  And my affliction
D
  Is all the world is facing
A/C#
  When all is undone
C
  We all outstretch embracing
Em
  A distant notion
D
  Of something worth remembering
A/C#
  Of all that can be done
C
  Of all that’s left worth saving


🎸 Verse:

Em      C
  I’m one of many each and
C#dim    G    B
everyone is striking the match
Em      C       C#dim
  Intent on burning every wretch until
   G   B
they wither to ash
Em     C        C#dim
  To tolerate the squalor built by
    G  B
the intolerant begs
Em      C     C#dim
  To be complicit in cementing
  N.C     Am
our place in the dregs
    C
Listen in keep an ear to the ground
     Am     C
When it ends, listen in and

follow the sound


🎸 Chorus:

G
  The world is dark these days
Fadd6
  And all the larks are caged
  C
in silence
      Cm/Eb  Cm/G Cm/Eb
They’ve no heart  to   sing
G
  This too shall come to pass
Fadd6
  This is not built to last
   C
Oh songbirds
Cm/Eb
Find me in the spring




Intermission:

Em



🎸 Solo:

G Fadd6 C Cm
G Fadd6 C Cm
N.C.
Find me in the spring!


🎸 Instrumental:

Em C C#dim G B
Em C C#dim G B


Breakdown:

B
Em


Chords used in Oh Songbird by Johnny Manchild and The Poor Idiots:
Em, C, G, B, Am, C#dim, Fadd6, Cm/Eb, Cm/G, D, A/C#, Cm