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Bird Stealing Bread by Iron And Wine
Bird Stealing Bread
Standard Tuning: Capo II
Empahsize the 3rd string on the E chords.
Intro:
A E A E
Verse 1:
A E
Tell me, baby, tell me
A E
Are you still on the stoop watching the windows close?
A E
I've not seen you lately
A E
On the street by the beach or places we used to go
Chorus 1:
A B E
I've a picture of you on our favorite day by the seaside
A B E
There's a bird stealing bread that I bought out from under my nose
Verse 2:
Tell me, baby, tell me
Does his company make light of a rainy day?
How I've missed you lately
And the way we would speak and all that we wouldn't say
Chorus 2:
Do his hands in your hair feel a lot like a thing you believe in
Or a bit like a bird stealing bread out from under your nose?
Solo:
Part A (play 4 times):
A E
e|------- ------- ------- -------|------- ------- ------- -------|
B|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
G|2---1--------------------------|-------------------------------|
D|--------4---2-------1---2---4--|--------1---2-----------1---2--|
A|----------------4--------------|2---4-----------2---4----------|
E|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
Part B (play 2 times):
A E
e|------- ------- ------- -------|------- ------- ------- -------|
B|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
G|2---1-----------4---2---1------|-------------------------------|
D|--------4---2---------------4--|--------1---2-----------1---2--|
A|-------------------------------|2---4-----------2---4----------|
E|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
Verse 3:
Tell me, baby, tell me
Do you carry the words around like a key or change?
I've been thinking lately
Of a night on the stoop and all that we wouldn't say
Chorus 3:
If I see you again on the street by the beach in the evening
Will you fly like a bird stealing bread out from under my nose?
Outro:
Play part A of the solo 4 times then end.
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version 2
Intro: C, G, C
C G
tell me, baby, tell me,
C G C
are you still on the stoop watching the windows close?
G
i've not seen you lately
C G
on the street by the beach or places we used to go
C D G
i've a picture of you on our favorite day by the seaside
C D G
there's a bird stealing bread that i brought out from under my nose?
verse two: (same chords as above)
tell me, baby, tell me
does his company make light of a rainy day?
how i've missed you lately
and the way we would speak and all that we wouldn't say
do his hands in your hair feel a lot like a thing you believe in?
or a bit like a bird stealing bread out from under your nose?
verse three: (same chords as above)
tell me, baby, tell me
do you carry the words around like a key or change?
i've been thinking lately
of a night on the stoop and all that we wouldn't say
if i see you again on the street by the beach in the evening
will you fly like a bird stealing bread out from under my nose?
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version 3
Standard Tuning
( Eb - x 6 8 8 x x x ) ( Ab - 6 8 8 x x x ) ( F - x 8 10 10 x x )
*****Album version ( Verse B - F# ) ( Chorus B - C# - F#)******
Intro - Eb - Ab ( x 4 )
Eb Ab Eb
tell me, baby, tell me-ee are you still on the stoop
Ab
watching the wind-ows close?
Eb Ab Eb
i've not seen you lately – yy on the street by the beach
Ab
or places we used to-oo go
Eb F Ab
i've a picture of you on our f-ay-vorite day by the sea side
Eb F Ab
there's a bird stealing bread that i brought out from under my nose
Eb Ab Eb
tell me, baby, tell me-ee does his company make
Ab
light of a rainy-yy day?
Eb Ab Eb
how i've missed you lately-yy and the way we would speak
Ab
and all that we wouldn't say
Eb F Ab
Do his hands in your hair feel a lot like a thing you believe in
Eb F Ab
or a bit like a bird stealing bread out from under your nose?
Eb* Ab* Eb*
tell me, baby, tell me-eeee do you carry the words
Ab*
around like a key or change?
Eb* Ab* Eb*
i've been thinking lately-yyy of a night on the stoop and all that
Ab*
we wouldn't say
Eb F Ab
if i see you again on the street by the beach in the evening
Eb F Ab
will you fly like a bird stealing bread out from under my nose?
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