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