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Something Biblical

Andrew Bird

RockMedium for beginners6 chords

How to play it

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

F
C×
D7××
G
E
Dm××

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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INTRO: F      C  (4x)
 
                F                         C 
Take your apples from the earth 
                F                             C 
And your fingerlings from the air 
       D7                           G.                   E                        
If you cried when you were born 
                                 F 
'Cause it ain't fair 
                                                G 
You got nothing, nothing to wear 
 
 
Dm                                                     C 
       And there's a drink that we're all needing 
E                                                   F  
      A need to weep but we have tried 
Dm                                                        C 
      And though the clouds we keep on seeding 
E                                         F                                    F       C 
      Still the county remains dry, the county remains dry 
                                  F               G 
The county remains dry 
 
Dm                                             C 
     I see your coat, that it needs sewing 
E                                                               F 
     And these seeds will sow the corn silk bride 
Dm                                                C 
      But in your absence nothing's growing 
E                                                F                                  F       C 
    And still the county remains dry, the county remains dry 
                                   F              G 
The county remains dry 
 
         F                       C 
Well still we keep on dreaming 
            F                C 
Of that fifty-year flood 
       F             C 
Of oceans of plasma 
        F          C 
And rivers of blood 
 
                 F                       C 
Take your apples from the earth 
                F                           C 
And your fingerlings from the air 
D7                                     G.                    E 
If you cried when you were born 
                          F 
'Cause it ain't fair 
                                                 G 
You got nothing, nothing to wear 
 
OUTRO: Dm   C    E    F   C 
          
 

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Chord set

F · C · D7 · G · E · Dm

Practice tip

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