Flap Off You Beak Chords & Lyrics by Cardiacs

Flap Off You Beak

guitar chords lyrics

Cardiacs

(intro)
A E A E A E A E
F D
F D
B F# A E A E

A E A E A
All nineteen birds flying fast up
E A E B F# A E A E
They are dead they are not alive

A E A E A
Bad bird you flap off you beak
E A E B F# A E A E
High and mighty beady bird eye

A D F G A
Featherless me and I be all glad on my own
D F G D#
Doggy-eyed graceless in my home
G# C#
Steps in wire
F# B E A E A E
High and mighty beady bird eye
B F# A E A E
They're not alive

A E A E A E
They eat no love, they curl up in their hollow tree
A E B F# A E A E
And leak the sap that bad birds do
B F# A E A E

A D F G A
Poison in the drops of black and white pearl
D F G D#
On the 'leaving the cinema' girl
G# C#
Steps in wire
F# B E A E A E
High and mighty beady bird eye
B F# A E A E
They're not alive
B F# A E A E

A B C E
Don't linger on not pure gold in your hand
A B C E
And fly again to the end of England
C# G# B F# D F B A# F#
Sad birds flying through the famous London fog
A# F# A# F#
There is no God
B F# A E A E
There is no 'alive'
B F# A E A E
In my menagerie

(repeat chords x6)
A B C E

C# G# B F# D F B
Sad birds they are not alive
A# F# A# F#
Nineteen birds flying fast up
A# F# B F# A E A E
They are not alive
B F# A E A E
They're not alive
B F# A E A E
They're not alive
B F# A E A E
B F# A E A E
(chords repeat - fade out)