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Caged Bird Tab

by Alicia Keys


                "Caged Bird"
          (from Songs in A Minor)
                 Alicia Keys

General Tab Structure:
(I play it with the Hendrix type chord with my thumb on the low E string):

e-|--------------------------------------------|
b-|--------------4-----2-----1-----------------|
g-|--------------5-----3-----2-----------------|
D-|--------------6-----4-----3-----------------|
A-|--------------------------------------------|
E-|---1-2---3----4-----2-----1-----------------|

                   
Right now I feel like a bird
             
Caged without a key
              
Everyones comes stearing me
                  
With so much joy and revelry

                       *
e-|--------------------------------------------|
b-|--------------6-----4-----8-----------------|
g-|--------------6-----5-----8-----------------|
D-|--------------8-----6-----8-----------------|
A-|--------------------------6-----------------|
E-|---3-4---5----6-----4-----------------------|

               
They don't know how I feel inside
              
Through my smile I cry
              
They don't know what they do to me
           
Keeping me from flyin'

(Thats why I say that)

             
I know why the caged bird sings
          
Only joy comes from song
               
She's so rare and beautiful to others
            
Why not just set her free
               
So she can fly, fly, fly
                      
Spreadin' her wings and her song
               
Let her fly, fly, fly
            
For the whole world to see

[interlude]
  
  

               
She's like a caged bird
               
Fly fly
                                            
Oh, she's a little fly, She's a little fly, She's a little fly
                **
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.