Flightless Bird, American Mouth (High)
by Iron and Wine · posted by mad4blues2
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How to read this tab — notation key
- +
- Blow note
- −
- Draw note
- b or '
- Half-step bend
- bb or ''
- Two half-step bend
- bbb or '''
- Three half-step bend
- (###)
- Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
- < or *
- Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)
Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.
4 -4 5 6 6 6 6 -5 5 5 5 5 -4 4 -4 4 4 4 4 -4 5 -4 -4 -4
I was a quick, wet, boy, diving too deep for coins, all of your street light eyes wide on my plastic toys
4 -4 5 6 6 6 6 6 -5 5 5 5 -4 4 4 4 4 -4 5 -4 -4 -4
Then when the cops closed the fair, I cut my long, baby hair, stole me a dog- eared map, called for you everywhere,
6 6 -8 8 -8 8 -8 7 6 -7 -7 -7 -8 8 -8 -8 88 -8 77 6 7 -7 6
Have I found you, Flightless Bird? Jealous, weeping, or lost you? American Mouth? Big pill, looming.
4 -4 5 6 6 6 6 -5 5 5 5 5 -4 4 -4 444 4 -4 5 -4 -4 -4
Now I'm a fat, house cat, nursing my sore-blunt tongue, watching the warm, poisoned rats curl through the wide fence cracks
4 -4 5 6 6 6 6 -5 5 5 5 -4 4 -4 4 4 4 4 -4 5 -4 -4 -4
Pissing on magazine photos, those fishing lures thrown in the cold and clean, blood of Christ mountain stream
6 6 -8 8 -8 8 -8 7 6 7 -7 7 -8 8 -8 -8 88 -8 7 6 7 -7 6
have I found you, Flightless Bird? Grounded, bleeding, or lost you, American Mouth? Big pill stuck going down.