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# "Caged Bird"
# (from Songs in A Minor)
# Alicia Keys
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#General Tab Structure:
#(I play it with the Hendrix type chord with my thumb on the low E string):
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e-|--------------------------------------------|
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b-|--------------4-----2-----1-----------------|
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g-|--------------5-----3-----2-----------------|
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D-|--------------6-----4-----3-----------------|
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A-|--------------------------------------------|
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E-|---1-2---3----4-----2-----1-----------------|
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AbGbF
Right now I feel like a bird
AbGbF
Caged without a key
AbGbF
Everyones comes stearing me
AbGbF
With so much joy and revelry
Bbm Ab Eb*
e-|--------------------------------------------|
b-|--------------6-----4-----8-----------------|
g-|--------------6-----5-----8-----------------|
D-|--------------8-----6-----8-----------------|
A-|--------------------------6-----------------|
E-|---3-4---5----6-----4-----------------------|
BbmAbEb
They don't know how I feel inside
BbmAbEb
Through my smile I cry
BbmAbEb
They don't know what they do to me
BbmAbEb
Keeping me from flyin'
(Thats why I say that)
AbGbF
I know why the caged bird sings
BbmAbEb
Only joy comes from song
AbGbF
She's so rare and beautiful to others
BbmAbEb
Why not just set her free
AbGbF
So she can fly, fly, fly
AbGbF
Spreadin' her wings and her song
AbGbF
Let her fly, fly, fly
BbmAbEb
For the whole world to see
(interlude)
AGFAbGbF
She's like a caged bird
AbGF
Fly fly
AbGbF
Oh, she's a little fly, She's a little fly, She's a little fly
Ab Gb Fmaj7**
Spread wings, Spread beauty
* you may want to try varying the Eb by using x6888x, x6534x, or 3x134x
** you may want to finger the Fmaj7 with 1x221x, x 8 10 9 10 x, or x8755x
Tips: Watch the third verse, since it alternates between the two chord progressions, you
want to use the two lead-ins alternatively during that verse.
tabbed by pianoboy3333
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