Shirtless In Hamburg chords by The Mountain Goats

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Half-Step Down (Eb MajorEb AbAb DbDb GbGb Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb)

Difficulty: Novice

Tune every string down to flat. Sounds best played as bar chords

Intro:
G+G E minorEm A augmentedA G+G
E minorEm A augmentedA G+G
E minorEm A augmentedA G+G
E minorEm A augmentedA G+G

(G+G to E MajorE goes real quick, listen to the song for timing)

Verse 1:
E minorEm
Sleep two to a bed
A augmentedA       G+G
Four to a room
E minorEm
Profits from the countryside
A augmentedA          G+G
Glad tidings of doom

Interlude:
G+G

Verse 2:
E minorEm
Too broke to play around
A augmentedA
Like the soldiers do
E minorEm
All up and down
A augmentedA
The glittering avenue

C majorC
Anything's better then the future
A augmentedA
I can see that from here

Interlude:
G+G E minorEm
Em A augmentedA
E minorEm A augmentedA

Verse 3:
E minorEm
Stack the amplifiers high
A augmentedA        G+G
Turn up the bass
E minorEm
Spring wild from the wings
A augmentedA
With glitter on my young face

Interlude:
G+G E minorEm
G+G E minorEm

Verse 4:
E minorEm
It's miserable outside
A augmentedA           G+G
But in here it's warm
E minorEm
It always feels so stable
A augmentedA
At the center of the storm

C majorC
Snake on my chest for protection—
A augmentedA         G+G
Why the hell not?

Outro:
E minorEm A augmentedA
(until fade out)