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