o--------------------------------------o | "Little Birds" | | from Live at Jittery Joe's | | by JEFF MANGUM | o--------------------------------------o Am x02210 F 133211 E 022100 G 355433 Em 022000 ---------------------------------------- Am Dee dee dee deedee dee dee (4 bars) F Dee.. Am Dee... F Dee... E Dee... ---------------------------------------- Am Little birds born without a mother or a father Am I can feel their feathers forming in the running water G Now there is another in the middle of my mouth Em A hundred altogether inside of me now Am Little birds, little birds come into my body ---------------------------------------- Am Mother, they're within me every moment I'm awaking Am Bodies multiplying 'til they finally overtake me G Put your ears up to my mouth and you can hear them singing Em Put you hands within me and you'll know what I am feeling Am I just want to swallow up and promise to protect them ---------------------------------------- Am Daddy come towards me I can see his hands are shaking Am Put his hands against me he can feel their bodies breaking G Push me to the floor and put his hands up for a beating Em "I don't want to hear it anymore" he kept repeating Am "Do you really want the burning hell to come and get you?" F Ah... Am Ah... F Ah... E Ah... Am ---------------------------------------- Am "Did you see the burning hell it took your baby brother? Am "Did you see how far he fell and how he made us suffer? G "Another boy in town at night he took him for his lover Em "And deep in sin they held each other Am "So I took a hammer and nearly beat his little brains in Am "Knowing God in heaven no could never could forgive him Am G Em "So I took a hammer nearly beat his brains in" ---------------------------------------- Am Little boy born without a mother or a father Am Taken to the river and then pushed into the water G Em And the priest is singing that the hell is getting hotter la la la la la Am Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the only ones to save him Am From the thing he loves the most but we know will betray him Am G Em Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the only ones to save him ---------------------------------------- Am G And here beneath the water I can see Em Am How the light distorts so strange G Em And this is how I would like to leave my body Am And start again Am Ah... (8 bars) G Ah... E Ah.. Am Dee dee dee... (2 bars)