Three Little Birds | TAB
To make the chords for Three Little Birds work you need to incorporate a bass line. But it doesn’t have to be the original bass line and it doesn’t have to be complicated.
Here’s what I think works for the chorus.

In bars 1 and 2, you can see how it is alternated down to the low E on beat 4. You could, I suppose, write A A/E in each bar to make this more clear…
For the D, I didn’t like alternating it, but I did like using a C-shaped D chord better than an open-position D.
Here’s what I think works for the verse.

We now go to the low E straight away for the A chord. I don’t think writing A/E as a chord makes complete sense, it feels strange. For the next chord, I’ve used E/B to E.
The last two bars of line one are again A/E, then D, without alternating the bass.
On line two we vary it. To make it feel more “jammed”, the E goes only to one low bass, and the final A is played as the chorus.
Start with playing as the TAB shows, then see if you can find your variations.
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