Iron & Wine - Flightless Bird American Mouth

      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 straight blind 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 bill looming


[Verse 2]

           C
Now I’m a fat house cat
            Am
Cursing my sore blunt tongue
             F
Watching the warm poison rats
                  G
Curl through the wide/white fence cracks
           C
Kissing 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, brown hair bleeding
C
Or lost you?
Am
American mouth
F         G
Big bill, still going down

--Evan A.