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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My Sister's Tiny Hands - Andrew Bird
Written by The Handsome Family
Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of
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CAPO 3
The song uses a slight variation on travis picking. I'll start by tabbing out the fingerpicking pattern,
but I'll write out the majority with just chords. You can either strum or continue fingerpicking.
INTRO
Am C G Am G
e|------0-----------0--------------------------------------------------------|
B|--1-------------1---------1---1--0---0--1------1---1--0---0--0----0--------|
G|----2---2-----2-----2-------2------0-------------2------0------------------|
D|--2--2-0------2--2-0------2--2---0--0---2------2--2---0--0--0----0---------|
A|-0-0--0------0-0--0--0-2-3-3----2-2----0------0-0-------------0h2----------|
E|---------0-3------------------------------0-3--------3-3---3---------------|
Am F C G Am G Am
e|--------------------1------------------------------------------------------|
B|--1------1------1-----1-1----1--0----1--1-----0---0---------1-----1--------|
G|------------------2-------2---------2-----2-----0---0----0-----------------|
D|--2------2------3--3-3---3---2--0--2----2--2--0--0-0----0---2-----2--------|
A|-0------0-------------------3--2--0----0-0-----------0h2---0-----0---------|
E|----0-3----0-3-1-1--1--1--------------3------3-3--3----------0-3-----------|
VERSE
C G Am
We came in this world together
G Am
Legs wrapped round each other
F
My cheek against my sister's
C G Am G Am
We were born like tangled vines
C G Am
And we lived along the river
G Am
Where the black clouds never lingered
F
And the sunlight spread like honey
C G Am G Am
Through my sister's tiny hand
C G Am
But while picking sour apples
G Am
In the wild waving grasses
F
Sister stumbled in the briar
C G Am G Am
And was bitten by a snake
CHORUS
G Am
Every creature casts a shadow
G C
Under the sun's golden fingers
G Am
And as the sun slips past the waving grass
G Am
Some shadows are dragged along
VIOLIN SOLO
C G Am G Am F C G Am G Am
VERSE
C G Am
So alone I took to drinking
G Am
Bottles of cheap whiskey
F
And I staggered through the backwoods
C G Am G Am
Killing snakes with a sharpened stick
C G Am
Oh but still I heard her laughing
G Am
In the wild waving grasses
F
Still her tiny hands were splashing
C G Am G Am
At the river's sparkling shore
C G Am
So I took my rusty gas can
G Am
And an old iron shovel
F
And I set the woods to blaze
C G Am G Am
And choked the river up with stones
CHORUS
G Am
Every creature casts a shadow
G C
Under the sun's golden fingers
G Am
And as the sun slips past the waving grass
G Am
Some shadows are dragged along
My Sister's Tiny Hands - Andrew Bird
Written by The Handsome Family
Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CAPO 3
The song uses a slight variation on travis picking. I'll start by tabbing out the fingerpicking pattern,
but I'll write out the majority with just chords. You can either strum or continue fingerpicking.
INTRO
Am C G Am G
e|------0-----------0--------------------------------------------------------|
B|--1-------------1---------1---1--0---0--1------1---1--0---0--0----0--------|
G|----2---2-----2-----2-------2------0-------------2------0------------------|
D|--2--2-0------2--2-0------2--2---0--0---2------2--2---0--0--0----0---------|
A|-0-0--0------0-0--0--0-2-3-3----2-2----0------0-0-------------0h2----------|
E|---------0-3------------------------------0-3--------3-3---3---------------|
Am F C G Am G Am
e|--------------------1------------------------------------------------------|
B|--1------1------1-----1-1----1--0----1--1-----0---0---------1-----1--------|
G|------------------2-------2---------2-----2-----0---0----0-----------------|
D|--2------2------3--3-3---3---2--0--2----2--2--0--0-0----0---2-----2--------|
A|-0------0-------------------3--2--0----0-0-----------0h2---0-----0---------|
E|----0-3----0-3-1-1--1--1--------------3------3-3--3----------0-3-----------|
VERSE
C G Am
We came in this world together
G Am
Legs wrapped round each other
F
My cheek against my sister's
C G Am G Am
We were born like tangled vines
C G Am
And we lived along the river
G Am
Where the black clouds never lingered
F
And the sunlight spread like honey
C G Am G Am
Through my sister's tiny hand
C G Am
But while picking sour apples
G Am
In the wild waving grasses
F
Sister stumbled in the briar
C G Am G Am
And was bitten by a snake
CHORUS
G Am
Every creature casts a shadow
G C
Under the sun's golden fingers
G Am
And as the sun slips past the waving grass
G Am
Some shadows are dragged along
VIOLIN SOLO
C G Am G Am F C G Am G Am
VERSE
C G Am
So alone I took to drinking
G Am
Bottles of cheap whiskey
F
And I staggered through the backwoods
C G Am G Am
Killing snakes with a sharpened stick
C G Am
Oh but still I heard her laughing
G Am
In the wild waving grasses
F
Still her tiny hands were splashing
C G Am G Am
At the river's sparkling shore
C G Am
So I took my rusty gas can
G Am
And an old iron shovel
F
And I set the woods to blaze
C G Am G Am
And choked the river up with stones
CHORUS
G Am
Every creature casts a shadow
G C
Under the sun's golden fingers
G Am
And as the sun slips past the waving grass
G Am
Some shadows are dragged along
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