Ethiopians chords by The Mountain Goats

Guitar chords with lyrics

Submitted by: Leyland

Standard tuning. The chords:

    C majorC   Cmaj7Cmaj7   Fmaj7Fmaj7   Fmaj7Fmaj7 no5   FF   A minorAm   G+G
e|--0-----0-------0---------0-------1----0---3------|
BB|--1-----0-------1---------0-------1----1---3------|
G+G|--0-----0-------2---------2-------2----2---0------|
D MajorD|--2-----2-------3---------3-------3----2---0------|
A augmentedA|--3-----3-------x---------x-------3----0---2------|
E MajorE|--x-----x-------x---------x-------1----x---3------|

Intro
C majorC Cmaj7Cmaj7 x4
Fmaj7Fmaj7 Fmaj7Fmaj7 no5 x4
repeat twice

C majorC                                 FF
Window mounted air conditioning unit,
A minorAm                       G+G
      Humming like a hive.
C majorC                                  FF
We want to send postcards to the friends we used to have,
          A minorAm           G+G              FF              G+G
Rub their noses in the ugly fact that we are still alive,
          FF    G+G
And we play,
             C majorC    A minorAm
Lovers reggae,
     FF           G+G
On accordion and banjo,
FF                    G+G
When the moon is high.
       FF  G+G            C majorC   A minorAm
And we lie on the floor,
       FF              G+G
Get suspicious of the people
       FF                      G+G
Who've just moved in next door.

C majorC                              FF
    The bad taste in our mouths,
                       C majorC
The twinkle in your eye
                      FF
Good things never last
G+G
Bad things never die.


Intro

Wind chime from Tahiti that we found down at the auction,
Tolls its minor chord.
And i can't think of one thing in this whole wide blessed world,
That's more dangerous and frightening,
Than you when you get bored.
And we go though,
Scads of money.
Don't know where it comes from,
Don't know where it goes.
And we stare, out the window
See the poison flowers the neighbours grow,
Sprouting up in nice neat rows.

The swelling in our limbs,
The twinkle in your eye,
Good things never last,
Bad things never die.

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