Lake Geneva chords by The Handsome Family

Chords with lyrics

[Intro]

E MajorE

     E MajorE
You are crouched before the fire
   F# minorF#m
in a state park by the highway
    BB
and through the heavy pine trees
     A augmentedA        E MajorE
ten-ton trucks go groaning by

      E MajorE
Like the screams of your Aunt Barbara
     F# minorF#m
who went crazy in the 70's
    BB
wrote poems to Jimmy Carter
    A augmentedA        E MajorE
but forgot to feed her kids

       G#G#
But it's the first time you're together
     A augmentedA       E MajorE
since he got out of the hospital
G#G#
Raccoons in the darkness
   A augmentedA        BB
drag off your hotdog buns

       E MajorE
But, you're happy just to lie there
     F# minorF#m
in your plastic tent from Wal-Mart
    BB
like sticks and fallen dead leaves
       A augmentedA      E MajorE
to feed the fire of the world

  E MajorE    F# minorF#m        BB        A augmentedA     E MajorE
|---4------------------------4/2-----2--4-----2-------------|
|-5------5--5/2------2--------------------------5---5---2-5-|
|-----------------------4-----------------------------------|
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   E MajorE
But which is more important,
  F# minorF#m
to comfort an old woman
    BB
or see visions of the heavens
     A augmentedA        E MajorE
in the stumps of fallen trees?

G#G#
Albert Einstein trembled
     A augmentedA         E MajorE
when he saw that time was water,
G#G#
seeping through the rafters
    A augmentedA        BB
to put out this burning world

  E MajorE     F# minorF#m       BB         A augmentedA   E MajorE
|---------------------------------------------------------------16-|
|-------------------------------------------------------/17--------|
|-13----------------------------------------13-13/14---------------|
|-14---14----------16--16------------------------------------------|
|---------14-14/16-------------16--16/18---------------------------|
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   E MajorE
Next morning you're at Waffle House
 F# minorF#m
Toast and eggs and hash browns
 BB
Truckers chain-smoke Camels
    A augmentedA       E MajorE
over plastic cups of juice

     G#G#
And you remember how he cried
       A augmentedA          E MajorE
when they strapped him to the stretcher,
  G#G#
convinced his arms were burning
      A augmentedA      E MajorE
with electricity from heaven
    G#G#
You remember how he told you
    A augmentedA          E MajorE
that black holes were like Jesus
     G#G#
And the crucifix was a battery
   A augmentedA          E MajorE
that filled the air with fire

E MajorE


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