BLOOD RED BIRD
ALBUM: Red Apple Falls
Song transcribed by Gabriele Contessa 

This one is a great song, though based on a simple i-ii-v chord progression.
I use to play it in F#m. As far as I could see Bill plays it actually in another tonality.
But this depends on the vocal extension of the singer.
What follows is my interpretation of the song for solo guitar.

  F#m	  G#m     C#m (C#7m G#7m)

|-2---2---4---4-|-4---4-7-4-|
|-2---2---4---4-|-5---5-5-4-|
|-2---2---4---4-|-6---6-4-4-|
|-4---4---6---6-|-6---6-6-4-|
|-4---4---6---6-|-2---2-2---|
|-2---2---4---4-|-----------|

This chord progression goes on throughout the song.
Pay attention to metrics and enjoy it.

F#m	  G#m         C#m 
I was not woken by the rooster
F#m	  G#m     C#m 
nor by the crow's tough song
F#m	  G#m             C#m            F#m
but the midnight cry of a blood red bird
G#m          C#m 
brought this sleeplessness on
F#m	  G#m         C#m                                   F#m 
threw open the window moonlight on a black garden of thorns
G#m           C#m 
and the cool wind on my sweat
F#m	    G#m     C#m 
what cries home     where cries from
F#m	  G#m     C#m 
a blood red bird lies in the woods
F#m	       G#m                C#m             F#m
weeping into dead leaves with wing torn and jutting bone
G#m                  C#m 
what hand bent it to bust to be ueseless
F#m	  G#m                         C#m 
what hand could have done it with two fingers
F#m	G#m      C#m 
a blood red bird a blood red bird
F#m    G#m              C#m 
we can continually sink into each other
F#m	  G#m                          C#m 
just deep enough to rip out a bit more flesh when we move away
F#m	    G#m             C#m 
a scarf of skin trailing out behind
F#m	  G#m     C#m 
like an arrow I was only passing through 

a blood red bird
a blood red bird