Learn Music: Secret Language Of Birds guitar chords - Jethro Tull tabs

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  Ian Anderson: Secret Language of Birds 
  Chords: Håkan Mattsson 
  Capo on 1st fret 
  
  Look below for footnotes *, ** and *** 
    
  
  Intro: D C D A G* A, G* A  (repeat) 
  
  A      G*       A      A---G---A** 
  This sparkling wine is all but empty 
  
       C         D        Bm  G   A 
  too late for trains and no taxis. 
  
  A   G*      A         A---G---A** 
  I know the feeling, seems all too contrived 
  
             C          D            Bm  A D 
  there was no master plan, but the fact is 
  
             D        C 
  you must stay with me 
  
       C                D    (G*)   A            A G* A, A G* A 
  and learn the secret language of birds 
    
  
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  A  G*          A         A---G---A** 
  Attend to the dawn about to be breaking 
        C        D           Bm     G   A 
  on a Rousseau garden with monkeys in hiding 
  A     G*          A      A---G---A** 
  The truth of the matter (yet to be spoken) 
      C             D           Bm            A D 
  in words on which everything, everything's riding 
        D        C 
  now stay with me 
       C                D    (G*)   A            A G* A, A G* A 
  and learn the secret language of birds 
        D        C 
  now stay with me 
       C                D    (G*)   A            A G* A, A G* A 
  and learn the secret language of birds 
  
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   E           D          D---A---E 
  Circled by swallows 
  
        E             D       D---A---E 
  in a world for the weary, 
  
    F#m       D             D---A---G 
  Chorded by warblers 
  
   G                 G?***        intro 
  wicked and eloqueent trilling. 
  
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  A        G*  A         A---G---A** 
  Lie in the stillness, window cracked open, 
     C      D          Bm       G    A 
  extended moments, (h)ours for the taking. 
  A         G*          A      A---G---A** 
  Careless hair on the pillow, a bold brush-stroke, 
   C                     D         Bm       A D 
  painted first with a chorus, a chorus in waiting. 
    D        C 
  stay with me 
       C                D    (G*)   A            A G* A, A G* A 
  and learn the secret language of birds 
         D        C 
  yeah stay with me 
       C                D    (G*)   A            A G* A, A G* A 
  and learn the secret language of birds 
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  Footnotes: 
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  *  : I play this G with all strings open (just let go of the A chord, play some of the 
       middle strings) 
    
  ** : these A---G---A  chords are played as: 
  
      A          G          A 
  --5-5-5------3-3-3------------- 
  --5-5-5------3-3-3------2-2-2-- 
  --6-6-6------4-4-4------2-2-2-- 
  --7-7-7------5-5-5------2-2-2-- 
  --X-X-X------X-X-X------------- 
  --X-X-X------X-X-X------X-X-X-- 
  
  i.e. the first A and G are as F chords at pos. 5 and 3 
  
  *** : this G? chord sounds something like 
  
  -3-    (          -3- ) 
  -2-    (          --- ) 
  ---    (normal G: --- ) 
  ---    (          --- ) 
  -X-    (          -2- ) 
  -3-    (          -3- )

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