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Iron & Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth

Chord diagram for C
Chord diagram for Am
Chord diagram for F
Chord diagram for G
      This is all very simple. The whole song follows this same pattern: Am, C, F, G. It's 
on the 3rd fret, and these chords are relative to the capo.
It's 3/4 timing, like a waltz, so strum appropriately. Each chord gets exactly 4 
and this does not change.
Flightless Bird, American Mouth
by Iron & Wine

[Verse 1]
         C
I was a quick wet boy
            Am
Diving too deep for coins
            F
All of your street light eyes
          G
Wide on my plastic toys
             C
And when the cops closed the fair
          Am
I cut my long baby hair
           F
Stole me a dog-eared map
                  G
And called for you everywhere

[Chorus]
      C
Have I found you?
Am               F        G
Flightless bird, jealous, weeping
C
Or lost you?
Am
American mouth
F         G
Big pill looming

[Verse 2]
           C
Now I’m a fat house cat
            Am
Nursing my sore blunt tongue
             F
Watching the warm poison rats
                  G
Curl through the wide fence cracks
           C
Pissing on magazine photos
      Am                          F
Those fishing lures thrown in the cold and clean
               G
Blood of Christ mountain stream

[Chorus]
      C
Have I found you?
Am               F          G
Flightless bird, grounded, bleeding
C
Or lost you?
Am
American mouth
F         G
Big pill, stuck going down
    

Source: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/iron_wine/flightless_bird_american_mouth_chords_582263

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