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Masterswarm Chords

(ver. 1)
Andrew Bird
I couldn't find this anywhere on the internet.  This is my first tab but i'm 
pretty sure it's accurate.  I'm not too sure about the Dm7 over "As he acts with 

I think he's actually tuned a half step down because it sounds like the bass note 
goes low for the Eb but I'm too lazy so it sounds good in standard too.


Gmsus2/A - 5x52xx

Intro: Em

Em
Come what may.  Lay your eggs where it's warm
              G
Come here to swarm
Em
Come by sea.  Swarm like smoke in the dawn
             G    G/f#              G7          C
We were the young ---  We were the swarm.  radiolarians
           Ab                   Gm/Bb               Gmsus2/A               
Midges and moths.  Cut from the cloth   We were the young
             G (just the note)
We were the swarm

Break: Am  Ab Bm  Am  Ab Bm

Am                                           G
Flailing fetal fleas       feeding from the arms of the master
Am                                     G
Burrow into me         This is sure to misspell disaster
           Am
Oh and the young in their larva state orchestrating plays
                    G
investments of translucent alabaster

Break: Dm  C  Em  F

        C
So they took me to the hospital
            C/B
They put my body through a scan
          C/Bb
What they saw there would impress them all
     F
for inside me grows a man
    Fm
he speaks with perfect diction
      Eb
as he orders my eviction
      Dm7                            Gm
as he acts with more conviction than I, I ,I

Break: Am  Ab Bm  Am  Ab Bm

Am
Oh burrow into me
                G
this is sure to misspell disaster
Am
Oh burrow into me
                 G
feeding from the arms of the master

Break: Dm  C  Em  F
C  C/B  C/Bb  F  Fm  Eb  Dm7  Gm

            Bb                 F
We were the young    We were the swarm
            F7            Am
We were the young    Radiolarians
            Am                   G
We were the young    We were the swarm
            C#7           Bm
We were the young    Radiolarians
            Bm                   A
We were the young    We were the swarm
            A7            C#m
We were the young    Radiolarians

C#m
Come what may, come what may, come
            
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