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            BIRDS AND SHIPS - Billy Bragg and Wilco 
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    The birds are singing in your eyes today, sweet flowers blossom in your smile 
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    The wind and sun are in the words you say, where might your lonesome lover be? 
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    Birds may be singing in my eyes this day, sweet flowers blossom when I smile 
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    But my soul is stormy and my heart blows wild, my sweetheart rides a ship on the sea 
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    Though my soul is stormy and my heart blows wild, where might my lonesome lover be? 
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| /   slide up 
| \   slide down 
| h   hammer-on 
| p   pull-off 
| ~   vibrato 
| +   harmonic 
| x   Mute note 
| b   Bend 
| pb  Pre-bend 
| br  Bend release 
| pbr Pre-bend release 
| brb Bend release bend 

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