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