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Version 1This 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 Am Photos, those fishing lures F 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 C Big pill, stuck going down [Outro] Am F G C Am F G x3 C