Palmcorder Yajna chords by Modern Baseball

Chords with lyrics

This tab shows how to play Modern Baseball's cover of the song 'Palmcorder
Yajna,' originally written and performed by The Mountain Goats. You can watch a
video of Jake Ewald of Modern Baseball performing the song here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3d5Ooz9xsQ

Modern Baseball's version of the song is in a different key than the original
and has some changes to the chord progressions in the choruses, so it seems
worthy of having its own tab. The song is played in standard tuning with no
capo. The chord voicings used throughout the song are given below:

  E MajorE BB F# minorF#m A augmentedA EsusEsus Esus4Esus4 G# minorG#m E* Esus4* C#m7C#m7 Badd4 Asus2Asus2 AMaj9Amaj9
E MajorE|--7--7---2---5----0-----0----4--0---0-------0----0-----0-----0--------|
BB|--9--7---2---5----0-----0----4--0---0-------0----0-----0-----0--------|
G+G|--9--8---2---6----9-----9----4--1---2-------4----4-----4-----1--------|
D MajorD|--9--9---4---7----9-----9----6--2---2-------x----1-----2-----2--------|
A augmentedA|--7--9---4---7----7-----0----6--2---2-------4----2-----0-----0--------|
E MajorE|-----7---2---5----0-----0----4--0---0---------------------------------|

Verse 1:
E MajorE BB F# minorF#m A augmentedA
E MajorE BB F# minorF#m A augmentedA BB
E MajorE   BB
 Holt Boulevard
F# minorF#m        A augmentedA
Between Garey and White
E MajorE                 BB
Hooked up with some friends at the Travelodge
F# minorF#m           A augmentedA   BB
Set ourselves up for the night

Verse 2:
E MajorE           BB
Carpenter ants in the dresser
F# minorF#m     A augmentedA
Flies in the screen
E MajorE             BB
It will be too late by the time we learn
F# minorF#m        A augmentedA    BB
What these cryptic symbols mean

Chorus 1:
   EsusEsus    Esus4Esus4
And I dreamt of a house
      EsusEsus            Esus4Esus4
Haunted by all you tweakers with your hands out
    EsusEsus           Esus4Esus4
And the headstones climbed up the hills
    EsusEsus           Esus4Esus4 BB
And the headstones climbed up the hills

Verse 3:
E MajorE           BB
Send somebody out for soda
F# minorF#m             A augmentedA
Comb through the carpet for clues
E MajorE           BB
Reflective tape on our sweatpants
F# minorF#m       A augmentedA   BB
Big holes in our shoes

Verse 4:
E MajorE       BB
 Every couple minutes
    F# minorF#m              A augmentedA
Someone says he can't stand it anymore
E MajorE         BB
Laugh lines on our faces
F# minorF#m        A augmentedA   BB
Scale maps of the ocean floor

Chorus 2:
   EsusEsus    Esus4Esus4
And I dreamt of a camera
    EsusEsus          Esus4Esus4
Pointed out from inside the television
    EsusEsus         Esus4Esus4
And the aperture yawning and blinking
    EsusEsus           Esus4Esus4
And the headstones climbed up the hills

Bridge:
G# minorG#m  A augmentedA       E MajorE *  Esus4Esus4 * E MajorE *
If anybody comes to see me
G# minorG#m         A augmentedA       E MajorE *  Esus4Esus4 * E MajorE *
Tell them they just missed me by a minute
G# minorG#m    A augmentedA       E MajorE *
If anybody comes into our room while we're asleep
A augmentedA      E MajorE *    A augmentedA     BB
I hope they incinerate everybody in it

Chorus 3:
   C#m7C#m7 Badd4   Asus2Asus2  AMaj9Amaj9
And I dreamt   of a factory
      C#m7C#m7  Badd4     Asus2Asus2
Where they manu - facture what I needed
   E MajorE *  Badd4 Asus2Asus2
Using shi - ny new machines
    E MajorE *    Badd4     Asus2Asus2