I'm Like A Bird

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−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
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I’M LIKE A BIRD		NELLY FURTADO


KEY Bb


VERSE 1

 4       5  -4  4    -4     4    4
You're beau-ti-ful, that's for sure

 4      4  4  -4  5  5
You'll nev-er ev-er fade

5       5   5   4    4   4    4    4
You're love-ly, but it's not for sure

4    4   4   -4  5   5
That I won't ev-er change

4     5    -4   5   5  5
And though my love is rare

-4     4    5    -4   5   5   6
Yeah, And though my love is true


CHORUS

7    6   -6b -6b  6   6   -5b 5 -5b -5b
I'm like a bird, I'll on-ly fly a-way

-4  5    5     -4   4   4  -4
I don't know where my soul is

-4 5      5   -4   4   4    4
I don't know where my home is

-4  -4  -4 -4 -4 -4   -4  -4  -4 -4  -4
And ba-by all I need for you to know is

7    6   -6b -6b  6   6   -5b 5 -5b -5b
I'm like a bird, I'll on-ly fly a-way

-4  5    5     -4   4   4  -4
I don't know where my soul is

-4 5      5   -4   4   4    4
I don't know where my home is

-4  -4  -4 -4 -4 -4   -4  -4  -4 -4  -4
And ba-by all I need for you to know is


VERSE 2


Your faith in me brings me to tears
Even after all these years
And it pains me so much to tell
That you don't know me that well
And though my love is rare
Though my love is true


REPEAT CHORUS


BRIDGE

4    5    5   5   5  5  5  -4   5
It's not that I wan-na say good-bye

5     6    6   6   6   6   6   6  
It's just that ev-ry time you try 

5    5   5  5   5    5   5   -4  -6b -6b
To tell me, me that you love me, oh, oh

-5b    5     5    -4
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

3    2    3  2   3   2   3  2  2
Each and ev’-ry sin-gle day I know 

-4  5   -4  5   -4 -4 5  -4 -4 5   6  -6b -6b -6b
I'm gon-na have to e-ven-tu-al-ly give you a-way

-5b    5     5     -4
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

5     6    5   6   6    -6b  5     -4   4
And though my love is rare, rare, rare yeah

5      6   5    6   5   7    7
And though my love is true, yeah

-6b -6b   6    -6b    -6b   5
Hey I'm just scared, yeah, yeah

 6    6   6   6     6
That we may fall through 

3    3   3   3   3  -5b  5   5
Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo


REPEAT CHORUS

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