Tablature birds without wings - David Gray

          



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  Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 03:40:26 -0600

  From: Tower Kountze <tkountze@bowdoin.edu>

  Subject: CRD: D/gray_david/birds_without_wings.crd 

  

  Birds Without Wings - by David Gray

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  from the album A Century Ends (Caroline Records, 1993)

  Transcribed by Tower Kountze

  

  David Gray is an incredible songwriter with a great voice.  He has three

  CDs out,

  but for some reason no one knows him.  I would love to see more of his

  work

  transcribed here, especially his more difficult stuff.

  

  It's basically C and G with a slight variation on G (G*), and an A

  thrown in toward the end.

  (note: G* is just G played with your finger taken off the A string)

  

  The Cords are C, G, G*, except for one part shown below, where an

  A is thrown in when "birds without wings" is repeated

  

  Wishing that something would happen 

  a change in this place 

  'cause I'm tearing off the fancy wrapping

  find an empty package 

  

  Take for a while your trumpet from your lip 

  loosen your hold, loosen your grip 

  on your old ways that have fallen out of step

  in a changing time 

  hoist a new flag 

  hoist a new flag 

  

  Angry sun burn down 

  judging us all

  guilty of neglect and disrespect

  and thinking small 

  And death by boredom 

  and death by greed 

  if we can't stop taking 

  more than we need 

  

  Across the fractured the landscape 

  I see the same things 

  tired ideas 

  birds without wings 

  

  [Change in chords: A, C, G]

  Birds without wings 

  birds without wings 

  

  But these are just thoughts 

  on lackluster times 

  and I've no interest 

  in excuses you can find 

  

  Like you've had a hard day 

  now you're too tired to care 

  now you're too tired to care 

  you've had a hard day 

  

  Well across the fractured landscape 

  I see the same things 

  tired ideas, broken values 

  many with the notion 

  that to share is to lose 

  a hollow people bound by a lack 

  of imagination and too much looking back 

  without the courage 

  to give a new thing a chance 

  grounded by this ignorance 

  

  [Change in chords: D, Am]

  When the cat comes 

  we're just 

  [A, C, G]

  birds without wings 

  

  Birds without wings

  birds without wings

   


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 Birds without wings, de David gray 

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