Andrew Bird

Accords et partitions

Pulaski At Night

G Am D C E F

Half empty, half full Cup runneth over Horns of plenty, coffers full We're starting over

Left Handed Kisses

C F Am G Em A

I don't believe everything happens for a reason To us romantics out here, that amounts to high treason I don't go in for your star-crossed lovers In the heart of a skeptic There's a question that still hovers near

Sisyphus

Bb F Eb Cm Gm Ab

[Verse 1] Sisyphus peered into the mist A stone's throw from the precipice, paused Did he jump or did he fall as he gazed into the maw of the morning mist? Did he raise both fists and say, "To hell with this" and just let the rock roll?

Roma Fade

Dm Am Gm C Bb F

See her light, how it reigns So hard on your high plains So you take such pains That she won't notice you And your x-rays

Bloodless

G Em Bm7 Am7 F C

[Verse 1] They're profiting from your worry They're selling blanks down at the DMZ They're banking on the sound and fury Makes you wonder what it all's got to do with me

Manifest

G D Am C Dm B7

[Verse 1] I'm coming to the edge of the widest canyon My companion's dear I'm starting to question my manifest destiny My claim to this frontier

Are You Serious

C Dm Am E G E7

Used to have just one foot out the door Yeah, I always wanted more I always was the one You thought would never marry Used to be willfully obtuse

Capsized

D Am

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Verse 1 Now when you wake up Night's falling someone is by your side Pull it together, darling you're not alone But when you break up

Oh No

Bb Eb Fm Cm Ab C

Bridge (same chords as previous): So let's get out of here Past the atmosphere Squint your eyes and no one dies or goes to jail Past the silver bridge, oh the silver bridge

Fake Palindromes

A D Bm G Em

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Artist: Andrew Bird Song: Fake Palindromes ([email protected]) Standard Tuning

A Nervous Tic Motion Of The Head To The Left

C G E Am Gm F

A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left by Andrew Bird Transcribed by: Chuck or Charmister Email: chhuckim@gmail for Q&A (LONG transcription; There are song comments "between the lines" and you can Copy+paste and cut out the comments in Word if wanted: Credit to Charmister)

Tenuousness

G C Am Em F D

Tenuous at best was all he had to say when pressed about the Rest of it, the world that is From proto-Sanskrit Minoans to porto-centric Lisboans Greek Cypriots and and Hobis-hots Who hang around in ports a lot, uh huh.

Imitosis

Am C/G Fm7 E Fm

He's keeping busy, yeah, he's bleeding stones With his machinations and his palindromes It was anything but hear the voice Anything but hear the voice It was anything but hear the voice

Olympians

Am G C D G5 Eb

[Verse 1] You were inhabited Speaking in tongues in the night I wasn't having it I could tell that something wasn't right

Three White Horses

G C F# B Em E

There'll be three white horses in a line There'll be three white horses in a line There'll be three white horses when you go that way You will need somebody when you come to die

Truth Lies Low

A# F Gm F5 Eb C

Here's a little game You can play alone Oh you do the walk of shame From the comfort of your home So here's another game

Cracking Codes

D G C Am B7 A7

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[Verse 1] You just have to look into my eyes You don't need a secret code No need to play at being spies And though I may speak to you in tongues

Armchairs

A# Em Dm C Bm D

I dreamed you were a cosmonaut Of the space between our chairs And I was a cartographer Of the tangles in your hair

Valleys Of The Young

G C F Am D G/F#

Do you need a reason We should commit treason And bring into this world a son And leave the valleys of the young Valleys of the young

The New Saint Jude

G D C Em F

Come on, all you stand-up men You self-empowered beginners And all your lucky ladies To whom you write your letters

Puma

D G Em G# Bb B

Do you see particles in the air? Unguided particles in the air Do you see particles in the air? Nobody know notices, nobody cares, oh

Tables And Chairs

D A G C# Bm A#

Figure 2 And if we can call them friends we can call Holler at 'em down these hallowed halls Just don't let the human factor Fail to be a factor..at all

Archipelago

G C D F Em G7

[Verse 1] What if one day we just refused to play? With no one to hate, they'd be out of a job You've gone off script, you just can't walk away Leave us naked, fleeced and racked with sobs

Fallorun

C G Em Am D Bm

[Verse 1] You know we could have been together But you couldn't stand the weather here You know I was your rain and thunder Upon your hills and valleys

Plasticities

F A# A#7M C F7M

We'll fight, we'll fight We'll fight for your music halls and dying cities They'll fight, they'll fight They'll fight for your neural walls and plasticities And precious territory

Heretics

F G# C# C Am G

Bored holes through our tongues, so sing a song about it Held our breath for too long till we're half sick about it Tell us what we did wrong and you can blame us for it Turn a clamp on our thumbs, we'll sew a doll about it And tell us all about it

Scythian Empires

G B Am C

An adaptation from others with complete tab and lyrics, sounds great to my ears. CAPO 3 INTRO / (2 bars) x2

Lusitania

C F Am G

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If you loosen liable lips You keep sinking all my ships Oh and youre the one who sank my Lusitania But somehow it dont register as pain, at all Till it finds our crooked vein

How You Gonna Keep Em Down On The Farm

Bb F C D Dm Eb

Reuben, Reuben, I’ve been thinking,” Said his wifey dear; “Now that all is peaceful and calm, Soon our boys will be back on the farm.” Mister Reuben started winking,

Bellevue Bridge Club

C G D Am F#m7 B7

And I will hold you hostage Make you part of my conspiracy You will be witness to carnage You know there's no you without me

Measuring Cups

G D A Em E Bbm

Get out your measuring cups and we'll play a new game Come to the front of the class and we'll measure your brain We'll give you a complex and we'll give it a name Get out your measuring cups and we'll play a new game Can't have the cream when the crop and the cream are the same

Danse Caribe

G C D

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Anything but "my", "yes", and "no" Just simply weren't invented yet Oh yes, oh no Then one day you'd had it Exiled your close advisers

Orpheo Looks Back

G C D Em

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There are places we must go to To bring these hollow words on back from You must cross the muddy river Where love turns to love turns to fear

Sifters

C G C/F C/G Am

Full Key step up Half Key step up Half

Chemical Switches

G F Am C Dm Em

I keep hearing a vicious rumor From the back rooms, to the alleys, to the avenues That you lost your sense of humor And the first place you look is the soles of your shoes

Anonanimal

G Cmaj7 Em D

I will become this animal Perfectly adapted to the music halls I will become this animal Anomalous appendages

MX Missiles

D G A Bm F# F#7

Those that will judge will say you're aloof But you know the truth is a seed you know what you need Is a conflagration Cause when I see your blood and the bits of your broken tooth It gives me the proof that I need it's the proof that you bleed

Don The Struggle

C D G B

[Chorus] Come on everybody, let's settle down We're all just stumbling down In an unnamed struggling town We're all just stumbling down

Darkmatter

C G D Em Am

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Tore the spines from out of all of these self-help books Made myself a gun that not only shoots but looks So real Yeah it shoots through steel With rays of darkmatter

Give It Away

Em G D C

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Did you give it away Did you give it away for free Don't you give it away Let's try to keep it in the family I know you know desolation

Fiery Crash

C G D

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Turnstiles on mezzanine Jetways and Dramamine fiends and x-ray machines You were hurling through space G-forces twisting your face Breeding superstition

Lull

G

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While I'm stirring these condiments into my tea And I think I'm so lame But I think this song's about me Don't I don't I don't I

Masterfade

D G A F#m E A7

Well you sure didn't look like you were having any fun With that heavy-metal gaze they'll have to measure in tons And when you look up at the sky All you see are zeros / all you see are zeros and ones You took my hand and lead me down to watch a kewpie doll parade

Skin Is My

B7 Em A G D Am

My skin is White as parchment Drier than a downtown office building Where the air is tight There's time spent

The Naming Of Things

C G F Dm7 D7 D

You remind me of you The way you shot right through and how You broke my window glass, Fast it happened so fast I have to confess that I

Effigy

G F C Am D Dm

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If you come to find me affable Build a replica for me Would the idea to you be laughable Of a pale facsimile? So will you come to burn an effigy?

Lazy Projector

G D F#7 Em A Bm

Now who's the best boy and the casting director And the editor splicing your face from the scene It's all in the hands of a lazy projector That forgetting, embellishing, lying machine That forgetting, embellishing, lying machine

Banking On A Myth

G B7 Em Bm a A

There's one guy I'd like to thank he signs the checks and leaves them blank He's the one He says you don't have to walk a plank the game is rigged, go figure Slide show tanked And your flagship sank

Eyeoneye

G C D Am Bm E

Go ahead and congratulate yourself Give yourself a hand, The hand is yours In the harden hours, and so... And here it heals itself, is too

Cataracts

C G Em D

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When our mouths are filled with uninvited tongues of others And the strays are pining for their unrequited mothers Milk that sours is promptly spat Light will fill our eyes like cats

Giant Of Illinois

A D G Bm F# F#m

Giant of Illinois - Andrew Bird Written by The Handsome Family Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of INTRO

Desperation Breeds

G F

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Beekeeper sing of your frustration In this litigious breeze Of accidental pollination In this era without bees

Opposite Day

G C A7 D7 Ab C5

I got home this morning with the sun right in my eyes And there was no warning as it took me by surprise as it Hit me like an Act of God, causing my alarm That I had now become a cephalopod

Not A Robot But A Ghost

Bm C# F#m F#maj7 G# C#7

This song has a lot of tricky timing, a key change or two, strange section lengths, etc... So listen closely to the song to hear all of that, because I've only given you the basics here. Additionally, some parts are based more on the movement of different complex instrumental and Melodic lines than simple chords, so a few chord sections here are simply loose representations. Feel free to correct them if you find a better fit.

Tin Foiled

Bb F Dm C A7 G

INTRO What is moving will be still What has gathered will disperse

If I Needed You

G C D

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VERSE If I needed you would you come to me Would you come to me, for to ease my pain?

Souverian

G D C Em

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Souverian, souverian, the elder Souverian, souverian, the free Souverian, souverian, the felled heart So very young, so very young were we

Near Death Experience Experience

Bb Dm A F Fmaj7 E

Used to be like copper Pliable but strong Used to smile and nod and say you're right be polite When you know that everybody's wrong Know that everybody's wrong

Spare-Ohs

F G C Fm D7 a

But their yolk isn't easy in fact it's a drag As they're blowing through cornfields and mountains of rags All over the suburbs across the great lawns Crop-dusting gardens all over this town

Masterswarm

Am G Bm Em C Ab

Come what may. Lay your eggs where it's warm Come here to swarm Come by sea. Swarm like smoke in the dawn We were the young --- We were the swarm. radiolarians Midges and moths. Cut from the cloth We were the young

Take Courage

Am F C Bb Gm A

Intro: Night's falling, so take courage That you're not alone, no you're not alone. Night's falling, so take courage That you're not alone, no you're not alone.

Don't Be Scared

G D A D(sus2) Em

When...whenever Paul Thinks of rain, swallows fall In a wave And tap on his windows with their beaks

Capital Crimes

Em Am B7 G C Eb

[Verse 1] We're a fine institution We're using a test to decide Like some kind of sick solution Who should live and who should die

Cathedral In The Dell

A D B7 E

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VERSE (single strum) The cathedral in Cologne looks like a spaceship

So Much Wine Merry Christmas

G C Em D D/F#

Verse 1: I had nothing to say On Christmas day When you threw all your clothes in the snow When you burned your hair

Fitz And The Dizzyspells

D E A A7 F E7

Comes and goes Like in fits and dizzy spells Like the weather And it blows Like it knows what’s going wrong

Orpheo

C F G

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Orpheo - Andrew Bird Traditional Hands of Glory CAPO 7

My Sisters Tiny Hands

Am G C B F

My Sister's Tiny Hands - Andrew Bird Written by The Handsome Family Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of CAPO 3

Tin Foil

C F Am E G

[Verse] Late new years eve paper hat on your head It was hard to believe that you'd ever be dead In that dream that you're falling you've had since you're five There's a bird on your shoulder that whispers goodbye.

Action Adventure

Em G E B7 F

Verse 1: Now if you think I'm wasting your time again I'm wasting your time When you picked me up in duty-free That's when I thought I'd be the cross in your T

Railroad Bill

G B7 C D

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Railroad Bill, Railroad Bill Never worked and he never will Im gonna ride, Railroad Bill.

Drunk By Noon

C G D A

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There once was a poodle who thought he was a cowboy He lived in a cage the size of his thumb And, though his white horse was a box of toothpicks He galloped around until he was hit by a car

The Privateers

A D Bm G F# A7

[Verse 1] Don't sell me anything. Your one time Offer, so uncalled for You call it piece of mind Cause I can see your house from here, Now the leaves have fallen, dear

Nomenclature

A D A7 F# G C

Just think of the lives you could swap with your own While you're selling your coats you're sewing your own You know it's not the easy way Sometimes we've got to pay to play With finger paints and macramé

Something Biblical

F C E Dm G D7

And there's a drink that we're all needing A need to weep but we have tried And though the clouds we keep on seeding Still the county remains dry, the county remains dry The county remains dry

Section 8 City

Am F Bb Gm C A

Section 8 city, Section 8 city Have you lied to us? And something gets in it Well something gets in it

Frogs Singing

C G D Bm Am Em

VIOLIN INTRO VERSE Have you ever seen a fish

When That Helicopter Comes

Em B7 Am D Am7 Am6

VERSE: It's gonna rain champagne And the hills are gonna dance There'll be power in the blood When the helicopters come

Spirograph

D G F# C Em

Spirograph - Andrew Bird Hands of Glory [INTRO]

The Sad Milkman

E A B7 E7

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VERSE Above the dark house On a black tar roof

Meet Me Here At Dawn

C Fmaj7 D7 G E Am

Fmaj7 C Fmaj7 C Find the memory erase it from your mind E Am Fmaj7 C Just give it up Fmaj7 C Fmaj7 C

Souvenirs

G C D A

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[Verse 1] All the snow has turned to water Christmas days have come and gone Broken toys and faded colors All that's left to linger on

Christmas In April

G D C Em B7 F#

[Verse 1] I wanted to hold you and keep you with me this year You're my darling and I want you near I wanted to whisper these words of comfort in your ear No more sorrow and no more fear

Ten-You-Us

C Am G Em F D

[Verse] Tenuous at best was all he had to say When pressed about the rest of it, the world that is From proto-Sanskrit Minoans to porto-centric Lisboans Greek Cypriots and and Hobis-hots who hang around in ports a lot, uh-huh

Sweetbreads

F# G D C Em Am7

"Well we've been doing this song all over the UK and we haven't brought it to the Mainland yet. But it's very interesting. It deals with...It's called Sweetbreads...it deals with the Issues, the numerous issues involved in consuming the vital organs of an animal. And everywhere we go, we find out that 'sweetbreads' means a different thing. I guess

Richmond Woman

G C D

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Original is called Richland Woman Blues by Mississippi John Hurt. The pattern just And it sounds better on a mandolin with chop chords, but a fun song on guitar nonetheless. Not 100% sure on the lyrics but its really hard to tell, my best guess is sing this but Slurry-drunk first, it will all sound good.

Oh Sister

G C D Em

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Oh, sister, when I come to lie in your arms Please do not treat me like a stranger. Our Father would not like the way that you act And you must realize the danger.

Greenwine

Em B7 C G D Am7

[Verse] I had nothing to say on Christmas day When you threw all your clothes in the snow When you burnt your hair, and you knocked over chairs I just tried to stay out of your way