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Bluebird

Buffalo Springfield

RockMedium for beginners5 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

D××
A×
G
BDiagram coming soon
C×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              TUNING: D A D G B D 
 
D 
G      G/B        D 
Listen to my bluebird laugh 
G         G/B       D 
She can't tell you why 
 G      G/B       D 
Deep within her heart you see 
 C   G/B         D     C G/B       D    C G/B  D 
She knows only cryin',      just cryin',      yeah 
 
There she sits, a lofty perch 
Strangest color blue 
Flying is forgotten now 
She thinks only of you, just you, awww 
 
 D 
So get all those blues, must be a thousand hues 
                                        C  G/B 
And each is differently used, you just know 
                 D 
You sit there mesmorized by the depth of her eyes 
                                  C  G/B 
If you could catagorize, she got soul 
          C G/B        C G/B         D 
She got soul, she got soul, she got soul 
 
RIFF 1 
 
RIFF 2 (during lyrics) 
Do you think she loves you 
Do you think at all? 
 
SOLO   (stop, RIFF 3, stop again, begin with banjo) 
 
Soon she's going to fly away 
Sadness is her own 
Fill herself a bath of tears 
And go home, and go home 
 
 
hide this tab RIFF 1:                              RIFF 2: 
                                     (bass notes with playing D) 
D ---0--0--0--0---------------------  ----------------| 
B --0--0--0--0----------------------  ----------------| 
G -5--5--5--5--5/2-0h2-0------------  ----------------| 
D -----------------------3p0---0----  -0------------0-| 
A ---------------------------3------  -------0h3--3---| 
D ----------------------------------  ---0------------| 
 
RIFF 3:                    (strum) 
D -0-----------0-------------0-------| 
B ---2h3p2-------2-----------1-------| 
G ---------2-------2-0-------0-------| 
D ---------------------4--0--2-------| 
A ---------------------------3-------| 
D -----------------------------------| 
 
 
          
 

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Chord set

D · A · G · B · C

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.