Biography:
Catherine Tift Merritt (born January 8, 1975, in Houston, Texas, but moved to Raleigh, North Carolina soon after) is a critically acclaimed American singer-songwriter, musician. She is currently based in New York.
Merritt's father taught her guitar chords and Percy Sledge songs. She began her professional career in 1998 with her band The Carbines playing small clubs. In her early twenties, though Tift had gigged by herself, she decided she was not very good at music and better suited for writing short stories.
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Other songs:
- Aint Looking Closely
- All The Reasons We Dont Have To Fight
- Another Country
- Bird Of Freedom
- Broken
- Diamond Shoes
- Drifted Apart
- Eastern Light
- Engine To Turn
- Feel Of The World
- Feeling Of Beauty
- Good Hearted Man
- Hopes Too High
- I Am Your Tambourine
- I Know Him Too
- I Know What Im Looking For Now
- Keep You Happy
- Laid A Highway
- Late Night Pilgrim
- Little Birds
- Live Till You Die
- Mixtape
- Morning Is My Destination
- My Heart Is Free
- Never Talk About It
- Plainest Thing
- See You On The Moon
- Shadow In The Way
- Six More Days Of Rain
- Small Talk Relations
- Something To Me
- Still Not Home
- Still Pretending
- Stray Paper
- Sunday
- Supposed To Make You Happy
- Sweet Spot
- Tender Branch
- Too Soon To Go
- Traveling Alone
- Trouble Over Me
- Virginia No One Can Warn You
- Wait It Out
- Write My Ticket
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Tift Merritt - Bird Of Freedom
CAPO: 2nd Fret
C Em F
Where were you
C F
When the plane went down
C Am
When the president was born
G F Am
When they founded this town
C
She was standing out back
Dm F
She could hardly hear the band
CHORUS:
C Bb F
My bird of freedom
C
With a gun in her hand
Bb F
My bird of freedom
C Bb F C
With a gun in her hand
Em F
Have you seen
C F
The parade in her eye
C Am
Hungry and hot
G F Am
Like the fourth of July
C
What is it about her
Dm F
That you don't understand
CHORUS:
C Bb F
My bird of freedom
C
With a gun in her hand
Bb F
My bird of freedom
C Bb F C Bb F G
With a gun in her hand
BRIDGE:
F C G
Don't look back now boys
F C Em
As she waves and she gets small
F Em
With those sweet wings that beat
F Em
Those sweet wings at night
F C
How those sweet wings fly
Bb F C Bb F
It ain't no choice at all
C Em F
Are you cool and dry
C F
Are you keeping warm
C Am
Shadow boxing
G F Am
This thunder-storm
C
Write me and tell me
Dm F
Where we fit in what is planned
CHORUS:
C Bb F
Me and my bird of freedom
C
With a gun in her hand
Bb F
My bird of freedom
C Bb F
With a gun in her hand___
OUTRO: C Bb F C Bb F C Bb F
CAPO: 2nd Fret
C Em F
Where were you
C F
When the plane went down
C Am
When the president was born
G F Am
When they founded this town
C
She was standing out back
Dm F
She could hardly hear the band
CHORUS:
C Bb F
My bird of freedom
C
With a gun in her hand
Bb F
My bird of freedom
C Bb F C
With a gun in her hand
Em F
Have you seen
C F
The parade in her eye
C Am
Hungry and hot
G F Am
Like the fourth of July
C
What is it about her
Dm F
That you don't understand
CHORUS:
C Bb F
My bird of freedom
C
With a gun in her hand
Bb F
My bird of freedom
C Bb F C Bb F G
With a gun in her hand
BRIDGE:
F C G
Don't look back now boys
F C Em
As she waves and she gets small
F Em
With those sweet wings that beat
F Em
Those sweet wings at night
F C
How those sweet wings fly
Bb F C Bb F
It ain't no choice at all
C Em F
Are you cool and dry
C F
Are you keeping warm
C Am
Shadow boxing
G F Am
This thunder-storm
C
Write me and tell me
Dm F
Where we fit in what is planned
CHORUS:
C Bb F
Me and my bird of freedom
C
With a gun in her hand
Bb F
My bird of freedom
C Bb F
With a gun in her hand___
OUTRO: C Bb F C Bb F C Bb F
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