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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Railroad Bill - Andrew Bird
Traditional
Hands of Glory
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CAPO 3
Throughout the song, the guitar plays a variation of travis picking (tabbed out below).
You can either fingerpick or play chords.
INTRO
E G# A E B7
e|-----------------------------------4-------------5----------------0h2---2--|
B|--0---0---0---0--------0--------4-------7-5---5---------------0-------0---0|
G|----1---1---1---2-0h1-1-----4h5-------5----6----6--6------0h1---1----------|
D|--2--2-2---2--2-2-2---------6----6-------------7--7-------2----2-----1---1-|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------2----2---|
E|-0-0--0--0---0-0-----0---2s4---4---4-4-4---5-5---5---5-4-0---0-------------|
E
e|-------0-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--0--------0---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|----1-1--1---1-------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--2--2--2---2-------repeat-x1----------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-0-0---0--0----------------------------------------------------------------|
VERSE
E
Railroad Bill, Railroad Bill
G# A
Never worked and he never will
E B7
I'm gonna ride
E
Railroad Bill
E
Well Railroad Bill was a mighty mean man
G# A
Shot the light out the brakeman's hand
E B7
I'm gonna ride that bad
E
Railroad Bill
E
Well Miss McMillan, she whooped and she squawked
G# A
That's my husband for I heard him fall
E B7
I'm gonna ride that bad
E
Railroad Bill
GUITAR BREAK
A B7 E (repeat x 2)
VERSE
E
Well I went down on Number One
G# A
Railroad Bill had just begun
E B7
I'm gonna ride
E
Railroad Bill
E
Well I came back on Number Two
G# A
Railroad Bill had just got through
E B7
I'm gonna ride
E
Railroad Bill
E
Well I went down on Number Four
G# A
Someone let fly with a forty-four
E B7
I'm gonna ride
E
Railroad Bill
VIOLIN SOLO
E G# A E B7 E (repeat x 2)
VERSE
E
Got a thirty-eight special in a forty-five frame
G# A
I ain't gonna miss 'cause I've got dead aim
E B7
I'm gonna ride that bad
E
Railroad Bill
E
Well Railroad Bill, rolling down a hill
G# A
Lighting cigars with a ten-dollar bill
E B7
I'm gonna ride that bad
E
Railroad Bill
E
Well, Railroad Bill says, Before I die
G# A
I'm gonna build a railroad for the bums to ride
E B7
I'm gonna ride that bad
E
Railroad Bill
VIOLIN SOLO
A B7 E (repeat x 2)
Railroad Bill - Andrew Bird
Traditional
Hands of Glory
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CAPO 3
Throughout the song, the guitar plays a variation of travis picking (tabbed out below).
You can either fingerpick or play chords.
INTRO
E G# A E B7
e|-----------------------------------4-------------5----------------0h2---2--|
B|--0---0---0---0--------0--------4-------7-5---5---------------0-------0---0|
G|----1---1---1---2-0h1-1-----4h5-------5----6----6--6------0h1---1----------|
D|--2--2-2---2--2-2-2---------6----6-------------7--7-------2----2-----1---1-|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------2----2---|
E|-0-0--0--0---0-0-----0---2s4---4---4-4-4---5-5---5---5-4-0---0-------------|
E
e|-------0-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--0--------0---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|----1-1--1---1-------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--2--2--2---2-------repeat-x1----------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-0-0---0--0----------------------------------------------------------------|
VERSE
E
Railroad Bill, Railroad Bill
G# A
Never worked and he never will
E B7
I'm gonna ride
E
Railroad Bill
E
Well Railroad Bill was a mighty mean man
G# A
Shot the light out the brakeman's hand
E B7
I'm gonna ride that bad
E
Railroad Bill
E
Well Miss McMillan, she whooped and she squawked
G# A
That's my husband for I heard him fall
E B7
I'm gonna ride that bad
E
Railroad Bill
GUITAR BREAK
A B7 E (repeat x 2)
VERSE
E
Well I went down on Number One
G# A
Railroad Bill had just begun
E B7
I'm gonna ride
E
Railroad Bill
E
Well I came back on Number Two
G# A
Railroad Bill had just got through
E B7
I'm gonna ride
E
Railroad Bill
E
Well I went down on Number Four
G# A
Someone let fly with a forty-four
E B7
I'm gonna ride
E
Railroad Bill
VIOLIN SOLO
E G# A E B7 E (repeat x 2)
VERSE
E
Got a thirty-eight special in a forty-five frame
G# A
I ain't gonna miss 'cause I've got dead aim
E B7
I'm gonna ride that bad
E
Railroad Bill
E
Well Railroad Bill, rolling down a hill
G# A
Lighting cigars with a ten-dollar bill
E B7
I'm gonna ride that bad
E
Railroad Bill
E
Well, Railroad Bill says, Before I die
G# A
I'm gonna build a railroad for the bums to ride
E B7
I'm gonna ride that bad
E
Railroad Bill
VIOLIN SOLO
A B7 E (repeat x 2)
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