The Diaz Brothers chords by The Mountain Goats

Chords with lyrics

Intro: C majorC A minorAm FF


verse 1

C majorC    A minorAm        FF
Cops and robbers, strictly bargain line,
C majorC     A minorAm         E minorEm         FF
 Spend the wet night tracking visions through the pines.
               G+G
Draw my arms into my hospital gown.
C majorC              FF
See the sky open up and rain down,
G+G
Rain down.

C majorC   A minorAm      FF
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.
C majorC   A minorAm      FF     G+G
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.


verse 2

C majorC    A minorAm          FF   G+G
Hear my rivals on the western wind.
C majorC    A minorAm    E minorEm             FF
Hard to know who might or might not be your friend.
              G+G
Work by the Plutonian light.
C majorC        A minorAm     FF
Forbidden rosary prayers all night,
G+G
All night.


C majorC   A minorAm      FF
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.
C majorC   A minorAm      FF     G+G
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.


verse 3

DmDm    A minorAm
Beam of a flashlight,
DmDm        A minorAm
All night in the woods.
E minorEm      C majorC
Hunt us like dogs,
     FF        G+G
And then string us up for good.
C majorC    A minorAm      FF
Keep one step ahead of enemies.
C majorC    A minorAm           E minorEm         FF
Foretell worse things than such frightful nights as these.
              G+G
Lead us to the beach by our hands,
  C majorC           FF  G+G
And bury us there in the sand.


C majorC   A minorAm      FF
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.
C majorC   A minorAm      FF     G+G
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.
C majorC   A minorAm      FF
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.
C majorC   A minorAm      FF     C majorC
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.