Bell Swamp Connection chords by The Mountain Goats

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro 1:

Dmaj7Dmaj7

Intro 2:

D MajorD
Dsus2Dsus2 Dmaj7Dmaj7 G+G
Dsus2Dsus2 Dmaj7Dmaj7 G+G
Dsus2Dsus2 Dmaj7Dmaj7


Verse:
DsusDsus
Toward the tail-end of the age that's almost finished
DsusDsus
Where the highway starts to crack and nobody fixes it
Dsus2Dsus2 (6)
I was wandering through an undeveloped tract
D MajorD
Out near the ocean
DsusDsus
One-hundred acres, we will build to suit
DsusDsus
See what there is to see before it's gone
Dsus2Dsus2
Somebody's always just about
DsusDsus         D MajorD
To put some kind of awful plan in motion

G+G
Eastern red cedars, and the pines

And suddenly an elevated stone slab
                  D MajorD
In what must have been a clearing once

G+G
Try to recognize the signals and the signposts
       G+G F#F# E minorEm D MajorD
My curiosity
E minorEm  D MajorD          AsusAsus   A augmentedA
Will likely always get the best of me


D MajorD
It's like that one thing
           E MajorE
My Dad kept trying to tell me
    G+G
As the twilight
             D MajorD
Inched its way on up his body
D MajorD    E MajorE    G+G    D MajorD
Get out, get out, get out, get out

DsusDsus
Well of course I climbed atop the slab and I lay down on it

I am a child

I had my face toward the sky
                   D MajorD
Lying there in the sun with both my eyes closed

DsusDsus
Woke up in near darkness

What the hell is wrong with me

Volunteer pines in their hundreds in the dusk like military tentpoles

G+G
Let my eyes adjust

Try to read the markings on the slab
                             D MajorD
Weird alphabets I felt sure I hadn't seen, just before I passed out
G+G
Stars growing brighter

Me looking up
    G+G   F#F#   E minorEm     D MajorD
Like a lobster in a cage down in the depths
               AsusAsus
Beneath the bottom of a glass boat
        D MajorD
And I heard a voice
               E MajorE
From somewhere out beyond the free fall
    G+G
Like a captive soldier
               D MajorD
He's just trying to warn his brothers
D MajorD    G+G    G+G    D MajorD
Get out, get out, get out, get out