Biography:
Andrew Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American musician. He was born in Lake Bluff, Illinois and resides in the Chicago area. Bird is a singer, a violinist and, since 2004, a guitarist. He is also an accomplished whistler.
His early work, which echoed gypsy jazz and traditional folk, has led into his current sound, which mixes rock with more broad compositions. His years of solo song-craft have now enabled him to produce a sound that is uniquely his own.
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Other songs:
- Action/adventure
- Anonanimal
- Are You Serious
- Capsized
- Cataracts
- Dyin' Bedmaker
- Fatal Shore
- Gotholympians
- Lull
- Manifest
- Masters Warm
- Measuring Cups
- Meet Me Here At Dawn
- Oh No
- Orpheo Looks Back
- Pulaski
- Pulaski At Night
- Something Biblical
- Spare Ohs
- Tea And Thorazine
- Three White Horses
- Why?
- Heretics
- 1111
- A Nervous Tic Motion Of The Head To The Left
- Action Adventure
- Armchairs
- Banking On A Myth
- Bloodless
- Candy Shop
- Case In Point
- Cathedral In The Dell
- Chemical Switches
- Dark Matter
- Darkmatter
- Dear Old Greenland
- Desperation Breeds
- Dont Be Scared
- Dora Goes To Town
- Drunk By Noon
- Effigy
- Fake Palindromes
- Far From Any Road
- Fatal Flower Garden
- Fiery Crash
- Fitz And The Dizzyspells
- Frogs Singing
- Giant Of Illinois
- Give It Away
- Glass Figurine
- Headsoak
- How You Gonna Keep Em Down On The Farm
- If I Needed You
- Imitosis
- Lazy Projector
- Left Handed Kisses
- Lusitania
- Masterfade
- Masterswarm
- Mx Missiles
- Mx Missles
- My Sisters Tiny Hands
- Near Death Experience Experience
- Nomenclature
- Not A Robot But A Ghost
- Nuthinduan Waltz
- Oh Sister
- Opposite Day
- Orpheo
- Plasticities
- Puma
- Railroad Bill
- Richmond Woman
- Roma Fade
- Scythian Empire
- Scythian Empires
- Section 8 City
- Sisyphus
- So Much Wine
- Soldier On
- Some Of These Days
- Souverian
- Spare
- Spirograph
- Sweetbreads
- Tables And Chairs
- Take Courage
- Tenuousness
- The Naming Of Things
- The New Saint Jude
- The Privateers
- The Sad Milkman
- Tin Foil
- Tin Foiled
- Too Long
- Truth Lies Low
- Twistable Turnable Man
- Two Way Action
- Valleys Of The Young
- Wait
- When That Helicopter Comes
- Why
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Beautiful song off of Andrew Bird's latest album "Are you Serious". To my ear it sounds
best played with barre chords with the C and Em frequently open. Amazingly, the track on
the album was recorded in a single take by Blake Mills on guitar - play around with hammer
on the A and E strings to emulate his wonderful playing style.
[Intro]
G
(pluck the open low E string then Hammer on into a Barre G to sound like the recording)
[Whistling Bit]
Am G F
G Dm Em
Am G F
G F C
[Verse]
Am G F
I keep hearing a vicious rumor
G Dm Em
From the back rooms, to the alleys, to the avenues
Am G F
That you lost your sense of humor
G F C
And the first place you look is the soles of your shoes
Am G F
And I watch these ice fields melt into the sea
G Dm Em
Warming you're oceans to centuries
Am G F
Will your saline waters bring you back to me?
G F C
Oh the weight is bringing me to my knees
[Chorus]
Am C G F
Chemical switches thrown in the dark
G Dm C
All it takes is a spark to begin
Am C G F
And can you tell which is a one with a mark?
G Dm C
That Bleeds through the clothes to the skin
[Whistling Interlude]
Am G F
G Dm Em
Am G F
G F C
[Verse]
Am G F G Dm Em
Too long I keep searching the alleys and avenues
Am G F
But it seems I'm doing it wrong
G F C
For I've seen neither hide nor hair of you
[Humming/Singing Interlude]
Am G F
G Dm Em
Am G F
G F C
[Bridge]
F C G F
And it's a short short walk from pebbles to bricks
G F
From stones back to sticks
G
We're lowering the boiling point
Am C G F
And as time goes by, gets harder to fix
G F G C
It's a volatile mix, like hydrogen and oxygen
[Chorus]
Am C G F
Chemical switches thrown in the dark
G Dm C
All it takes is a spark to begin
best played with barre chords with the C and Em frequently open. Amazingly, the track on
the album was recorded in a single take by Blake Mills on guitar - play around with hammer
on the A and E strings to emulate his wonderful playing style.
[Intro]
G
(pluck the open low E string then Hammer on into a Barre G to sound like the recording)
[Whistling Bit]
Am G F
G Dm Em
Am G F
G F C
[Verse]
Am G F
I keep hearing a vicious rumor
G Dm Em
From the back rooms, to the alleys, to the avenues
Am G F
That you lost your sense of humor
G F C
And the first place you look is the soles of your shoes
Am G F
And I watch these ice fields melt into the sea
G Dm Em
Warming you're oceans to centuries
Am G F
Will your saline waters bring you back to me?
G F C
Oh the weight is bringing me to my knees
[Chorus]
Am C G F
Chemical switches thrown in the dark
G Dm C
All it takes is a spark to begin
Am C G F
And can you tell which is a one with a mark?
G Dm C
That Bleeds through the clothes to the skin
[Whistling Interlude]
Am G F
G Dm Em
Am G F
G F C
[Verse]
Am G F G Dm Em
Too long I keep searching the alleys and avenues
Am G F
But it seems I'm doing it wrong
G F C
For I've seen neither hide nor hair of you
[Humming/Singing Interlude]
Am G F
G Dm Em
Am G F
G F C
[Bridge]
F C G F
And it's a short short walk from pebbles to bricks
G F
From stones back to sticks
G
We're lowering the boiling point
Am C G F
And as time goes by, gets harder to fix
G F G C
It's a volatile mix, like hydrogen and oxygen
[Chorus]
Am C G F
Chemical switches thrown in the dark
G Dm C
All it takes is a spark to begin
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