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Tenuousness
Andrew Bird
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Song: Tenuousness
Artist: Andrew Bird
Album: Noble Beast
Normal Tuning
No Capo
Chords used: C/G Am G F Em D/A
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Intro: C/G, Am
C/G
Tenuous at best was all he had to say when pressed about the
Am
rest of it, the world that is
C/G
from proto-Sanskrit Minoans to porto-centric Lisboans
Am
Greek Cypriots and and Hobis-hots
C/G
Who hang around in ports a lot, uh huh.
Am
(whitsling part)
C/G
Here's where things start getting weird
Am
While chinless men will scratch their beards, uh huh
C/G
To their minds a sharpened axe while
Am
brushed up on the Uralic syntaxes
G
Love of hate acts as an axis
F
Love of hate acts as an axis, oh oh
C/G
First it wanes and then it waxes
Am
(whistling part)
C/G
So procreate and pay your taxes
Am
(whistling part)
C/G
Ten you us ness less
Am
seven comes to three
C/G
Them you us plus
Am G
eleven thank the heavens for their elasticity
F C/G
And that's for those who live and die for astronomy
Am
(whistling part)
C/G Am
(whistling part)
C/G
When Coprophagia was writ know when to stand know when to sit
Am
Can't stand to stand can't stand to sit and who would want to know this
C/G Am G
Click click click
G Em
Who wants to look upon this
G Em
Who wants to look upon this
G
pray tell
G Em
Who wants to look upon this
G Em
Who wants to look upon this
G
pray tell
Em
pray tell
G
Ten you us ness less
Em
seven comes to three
G
Them you us plus
Em D/A
eleven comes just shy of infinity
C/G
And that's for those who live and die
G
for numerology