Intro
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G E
G E
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B F# B F# B
All nineteen birds flying fast up
F# B F# C# G# B F# B F#
They are dead they are not alive
B F# B F# B
Bad bird you flap off you beak
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High and mighty beady bird eye
B E G A B
Featherless me and I be all glad on my own
E G A F
Doggy-eyed graceless in my home
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Steps in wire
G# C# F# B F# B F#
High and mighty beady bird eye
C# G# B F# B F#
They're not alive
B F# B F# B F#
They eat no love, they curl up in their hollow tree
B F# C# G# B F# B F#
And leak the sap that bad birds do
C# G# B F# B F#
B E G A B
Poison in the drops of black and white pearl
E G A F
On the 'leaving the cinema' girl
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Steps in wire
G# C# F# B F# B F#
High and mighty beady bird eye
C# G# B F# B F#
They're not alive
C# G# B F# B F#
B C# D F#
Don't linger on not pure gold in your hand
B C# D F#
And fly again to the end of England
D# A# C# G# E G C# C G#
Sad birds flying through the famous London fog
C G# C G#
There is no God
C# G# B F# B F#
There is no 'alive'
C# G# B F# B F#
In my menagerie
(repeat chords x6)
B C# D F#
D# A# C# G# E G C#
Sad birds they are not alive
C G# C G#
Nineteen birds flying fast up
C G# C# G# B F# B F#
They are not alive
C# G# B F# B F#
They're not alive
C# G# B F# B F#
They're not alive
C# G# B F# B F#
C# G# B F# B F#
(chords repeat - fade out)