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Andrew Bird

RockMedium for beginners8 chords

How to play it

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

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G
D××
E
A×
C×
F
Am×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Capo on 4th fret
              
 
 
 
hide this tab Intro 
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
D|-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0---------------------------| 
A|---3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3----repeat x4----------------| 
E|-3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-------------------------------| 
 
Verse 
 
 
   Sound is a wave like a wave on the ocean 
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
D|-----0----0---------0-----0---------0-----0---------0-----0----------------| 
A|---3----3-----3---3-----3-----3---3-----3-----3---3-----3-----3------------| 
E|-3----3-----3---3-----3-----3---3-----3-----3---3-----3-----3--------------| 
 
 
   Moon plays the ocean like a vio-lin 
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|-------------------------------------------------------1----1----1---------| 
G|-----------------------------------------------------0--0----0----0-0------| 
D|-----0----0---------0-----0---------0-----0--------2-----2----2----2-------| 
A|---3----3-----3---3-----3-----3---2-----2-----2--3--------3----3-----------| 
E|-3----3-----3---3-----3-----3---3-----3-----3------------------------------| 
 
 
   Pushing and pulling from shore to shore, biggest melody you never heard be- 
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
G|---0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--| 
D|---2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--| 
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
E|-1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1----| 
 
 
  -fore, what if I were the night sky, what if I were the night sky, here's my lullaby 
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|------1-----1-----1-----------1-----1-----1--------------------------------| 
G|---0-----0-----0-----0--0--0-----0-----0-----0--0---0-----0-----0-----0----| 
D|-------------------------------------------------------2-----2-----2-----2-| 
A|-3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3----------------------------------------------------| 
E|-------------------------3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3---1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1---| 
 
Follow this picking pattern throughout. 
 
 
 
 
 
C/G 
Sound is a wave like a wave on the ocean 
 
C/G                            G    C 
Moon plays the ocean like a violin 
  
C/F 
Pushing and pulling from shore to shore,  
 
C/F                            C 
Biggest melody you never heard before. 
 
                   G 
What if I were the night sky? 
                    
                   C/F  
What if I were the night sky? 
 
            C                  G 
It's my lullaby; My lullaby to leave by 
 
           C/F 
Lullaby to leave by. 
 
              C  
If I were the night 
 
 
 
C/G  
What if we hadn't been born at the same time 
  
C/G                     G      C 
What if you were 75 and I were 9? 
 
C/F 
Would I come visit you? 
  
                                   C 
Bring you cookies in an old folks' home 
 
                   G 
Would you be there alone? 
  
         Am 
When the late summer lightning fires off in your arms 
 
                                  C 
Will I remember to breathe? No, I never will. 
 
   Am 
If I could convince you that I mean you no harm 
 
                        C 
Just wanna show you how not to need 
 
                  G         C/F 
If i were the the night sky...  and if i were the night sky 
 
             C 
Heres my lullaby 
 
              G         C/F 
My lullaby to leave by 
               
              C 
If i were the night 
 
 
C/G x4 G C (let ring) 
 
                                                   C (let ring) 
What if we hadn't been each other at the same time 
 
                                                                     C/F 
Would you tell me all the stories from when you're young and in your prime 
 
 
Would I rock you to sleep 
 
                                                    C 
Would you tell me all the secrets you don't need to keep 
 
              G 
Would I still miss you 
 
              C/F            C 
Oh, would you then have been mine? 
 
C/G 
Sound is a wave like a wave on the ocean 
 
                                    G (let ring) 
Moon plays the ocean like a violin 
          
 

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Chord set

B · G · D · E · A · C · F · Am

Practice tip

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