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