Tuning:

# For the latest collection of R.E.M. chords & tab, go to # http://www.uark.edu/~cbray/rem/ # # If you have any corrections or additions to this file, please email them # to cbray@comp.uark.edu # KING OF BIRDS Original chords by: ? Corrections from: the-concourse-on-high

Play the "D" chord like this: xx0235 And play around with it, like descending on that high E string (frets-5,3,2) through one line of verse.

Intro : D

^DA thumbnail sketch, a jeweler's stone A mean idea to call my own Old man don't lay so still you're not yet young There's time to teach, point to point Point observation, children carry reservations Standing on the shoulders of giants leaves me cold, ^Gleaves me cold. ^F#A mean idea to call my own, a ^Ahundred million birds fly^D

^DSinger sing me a given, singer sing me a song Standing on the shoulders of giants everybody's looking on (Old don't lay so still you're not yet young) Standing on the shoulders of giants ^Gleaves me cold ^F#A mean idea to call my own, a ^Ahundred million birds fly ^Baway ^Eaway... aw^Baaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyie^Eeeeeee --
^D

^DI am king of all I see, my kingdom for a voice Old man don't lay so still, you're not yet young There's time to teach, point to point Point observation, children carry reservations Standing on the shoulders of giants, ^Gleaves me cold ^F#A mean idea to call my own, a ^Ahundred million birds ^Dfly away. ^DEverybody hit the ground. Everybody hit the ground.

R.E.M. - King of birds (chords)