The Sunset Tree chords by The Mountain Goats

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

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

You Or Your Memory by The Mountain Goats

E MajorE              C# minorC#m
I checked into a bargain priced room on la sienaga,
F# minorF#m                  A augmentedA    E MajorE
gazed out through the curtains of the parking lot.
                      C# minorC#m
walked down to the corner store just before nightfall in my bare feet.
F# minorF#m          A augmentedA      E MajorE
  black tarry asphalt, soft and hot.
      A augmentedA               E MajorE
and when I came back I spread out my supplies.
    D MajorD
on the counter by the sink,
      BB
I looked myself right in the eyes
          E MajorE   A augmentedA
st. joseph's baby aspirin,
       BB
bartles and james,
   E MajorE      A augmentedA   BB E MajorE
and you or your memory.

           E MajorE              C# minorC#m
I ducked behind the drapes when I saw the moon begin to rise,
F# minorF#m           A augmentedA           E MajorE
gathered in my loose ends switched off the light.
                        C# minorC#m
and down there in the dark I can see the real truth about me.
 F# minorF#m      A augmentedA               E MajorE
as clear as day, lord if I make it through tonight
      A augmentedA    E MajorE     D MajorD              BB
then I will mend my ways and walk the straight path to the end of my days.
          E MajorE    A augmentedA
st. joseph's baby aspirin,
       BB
bartles and james,
   E MajorE      A augmentedA   BB E MajorE A augmentedA BB E MajorE A augmentedA BB E MajorE A augmentedA BB E MajorE A augmentedA  BB E.
and you or your memory.


Broom People by The Mountain Goats

E MajorE - C# minorC#m - A augmentedA - BB - E MajorE

E MajorE     C# minorC#m
36 Hudson in the garage
A augmentedA            E MajorE
All sorts of junk in the unattached spare room
E MajorE       C# minorC#m
Dishes in the kitchen sink
A augmentedA         BB
New straw for the old broom
A augmentedA            E MajorE
Friends who don't have a clue
A augmentedA      E MajorE
Well-meaning teachers
A augmentedA        C# minorC#m         A augmentedA   BB
But down in your arms, in your arms,
      E MajorE         A augmentedA
I am a wild creature

E MajorE  A augmentedA

E MajorE              C# minorC#m
Floor two foot high with newspapers
A augmentedA             E MajorE
White carpet thick with pet hair
E MajorE           C# minorC#m
Half-eaten gallons of ice cream in the freezer
A augmentedA         BB
Fresh fuel for the sodium flares
A augmentedA              E MajorE
I write down good reasons to freeze to death
A augmentedA         E MajorE
In my spiral ring notebook
A augmentedA        C# minorC#m          A augmentedA    BB
But in the long tresses of your hair
        E MajorE    A augmentedA
I am a babbling brook

E MajorE A augmentedA (x3)
A augmentedA


This Year by The Mountain GoatsCapo 2
G+G           D MajorD
 I broke free on a Saturday morning
      C majorC      G+G
 I put the pedal to the floor
   G+G         D MajorD
 Headed north on Mills Avenue
       C majorC       G+G
 And listened to the engine roar

G+G  B minorBm  Cadd9Cadd9  G+G
G MajorG  D MajorD   C majorC    G+G

  G+G             D MajorD
 My broken house behind me and good things ahead
       C majorC             G+G
 A augmentedA girl named Cathy wants a little of my time
   G+G            D MajorD
 Six cylinders underneath the hood crashing and kicking
 C majorC             G+G
 Ahah, listen to the engine whine

        G+G          D MajorD
 I am going to make it through this year
    C majorC      G+G
 If it kills me
        G+G          D MajorD
 I am going to make it through this year
    C majorC      G+G
 If it kills me

G+G  B minorBm  Cadd9Cadd9  G+G
G MajorG  D MajorD   C majorC    G+G

     G+G        D MajorD
 I played video games in a drunken haze
    C majorC    G+G
 I was 17 years young
     G+G            D MajorD
 Hurt my knuckles punching the machines
       C majorC         G+G
 The taste of scotch rich on my tongue

G+G  B minorBm  Cadd9Cadd9  G+G
G MajorG  D MajorD   C majorC    G+G

     G+G           D MajorD
 And then Cathy showed up and we hung out
     C majorC            G+G
 Trading swigs from a bottle, all bitter and clean
     G+G       D MajorD
 Locking eyes, holding hands
      C majorC       G+G
 Twin high maintenance machines

        G+G          D MajorD
 I am going to make it through this year
    C majorC       G+G
 If it kills me
        G+G          D MajorD
 I am going to make it through this year
    C majorC       G+G
 If it kills me

E minorEm               G+G
 I drove home in the California dusk
E minorEm             G+G
 I could feel the alcohol inside of me hum
       E minorEm           G+G
 Pictured the look on my stepfather's face
 C majorC              D MajorD
 Ready for the bad things to come

    G+G              D MajorD
 I down-shifted as I pulled into the driveway
   C majorC               G+G
 The motor screaming out, stuck in second gear
        G+G           D MajorD
 The scene ends badly, as you might imagine
   C majorC           G+G
 In a cavalcade of anger and fear
        G+G      D MajorD     C majorC       D MajorD
 There will be feasting and dancing in Jerusalem next year

        G+G          D MajorD
 I am going to make it through this year
    C majorC      G+G
 If it kills me
        G+G          D MajorD
 I am going to make it through this year
    C majorC      G+G
 If it kills me
G+G  B minorBm  Cadd9Cadd9  G+G   G+G  D MajorD   C majorC    G+G


Dilaudid by The Mountain Goats

E minorEm Em C majorC D MajorD x3

E minorEm
(pause)
E minorEm          C majorC      D MajorD
The reception's gotten fuzzy
E minorEm          C majorC      D MajorD
The delicate balance has shifted
C majorC              E minorEm
Put on your gloves and your black pumps
C majorC             BB
Let's pretend the fog has lifted

E minorEm   C majorC    D MajorD
Now you see me
E minorEm   C majorC    D MajorD
Now you don't
C majorC        E minorEm
Now you say you love me
C majorC        BB
Pretty soon you won't

   E minorEm              C majorC
If we get our full three score and ten
A augmentedA            BB
We won't pass this way again
              E minorEm    D MajorD
So kiss me with your mouth open
C majorC             BB
Turn the tires toward the street

     E minorEm
And stay sweet

E minorEm Em C majorC D MajorD x3 E minorEm (pause)

E minorEm            C majorC      D MajorD
All the chickens come on home to roost
E minorEm              C majorC   D MajorD
Plump bodies blotting out the sky
C majorC               E minorEm
You know it breaks my heart in half, in half
C majorC             BB
When I see them trying to fly

           E minorEm   C majorC   D MajorD
'Cause you just can't do
E minorEm           C majorC      D MajorD
Things your body wasn't meant to
C majorC      E minorEm
Hike up your fishnets
C majorC   BB
I know you

   E minorEm              C majorC
If we live to see the other side of this
A augmentedA          BB
I will remember your kiss
             E minorEm     D MajorD
So do it with your mouth open
C majorC               BB
And take your foot off of the brake
       E minorEm
For Christ's sake

E minorEm Em C majorC D MajorD x3

E minorEm

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Dance Music by The Mountain Goats

G+G E minorEm (x3) C majorC D MajorD

        G+G       C majorC     D MajorD       G+G
alright i'm on johnson avenue in san luis obispo
    G+G     C majorC       D MajorD    G+G
and i'm five years old or six maybe.
    G+G          C majorC          D MajorD    G+G
and indications that there's something wrong with our new house,
C majorC        D MajorD
 trip down the wire twice daily.


     G+G    C majorC         D MajorD     G+G
i'm in the living room watching the watergate hearings,
    G+G      C majorC      D MajorD   G+G
while my stepfather yells at my mother
      G+G        C majorC  D MajorD        G+G
launches a glass across the room, straight at her head.
   C majorC           D MajorD
and i dash upstairs to take cover,


    C majorC                G+G
lean in close to my little record player on the floor,
C majorC             D MajorD
 so this is what the volume knob's for,
       G+G   C majorC   D MajorD    G+G
i listen to     dance music.
G+G   C majorC   D MajorD    G+G
   dance music.


G+G E minorEm (x3) C majorC D MajorD


        G+G     C majorC   D MajorD   G+G
okay so look i'm seventeen years old
      G+G     C majorC      D MajorD   G+G
you're the last best thing i got going
       G+G       C majorC
but then the special secret sickness
     D MajorD      G+G
starts to eat through you
     C majorC        D MajorD
what am i supposed to do?   no way of knowing


   G+G     C majorC      D MajorD       G+G
so i follow you down your twisting alleyways
    G+G     C majorC     D MajorD  G+G
find a few cul-de-sacs of my own
       G+G     C majorC     D MajorD     G+G
there's only one place this road ever ends up
  C majorC         D MajorD
and i don't wanna die alone


          C majorC         G+G
let me down, let me down, let me down gently
C majorC             D MajorD
 when the police come to get me
       G+G   C majorC   D MajorD    G+G
i listen to     dance music.
G+G   C majorC   D MajorD    G+G
   dance music.

Outro:
G+G C majorC D MajorD G+G (x4)


Dinu Lipatti’s Bones by The Mountain Goats

BB Eb MajorEb E MajorE BB

BB             Eb MajorEb
we stank of hair dye and ammonia.
E MajorE               BB
we sealed ourselves away from view.
BB             Eb MajorEb
you were looking at the void and sat unblinking/(seldom blinking?).
E MajorE          BB     E MajorE        F#F# (x 9 11 11 11 9) E MajorE
the best that I could do was to train my eyes on you.
E MajorE              BB
we scaled the hidden hills beneath the surface,
E MajorE           BB
scraped our fingers bloody on the stones.
E MajorE           BB       Eb MajorEb    E MajorE
and built our little house that we could live in
E MajorE           BB
out of Dinu Lipatti's bones.

BB             Eb MajorEb
we kept our friends at bay all summer long.
E MajorE               BB
treated the days as if they'd kill us if they could.
BB                Eb MajorEb
ringing out the hours like blood drenched bed sheets
E MajorE           BB     E MajorE         F#F#
to keep winter time at bay but December showed up anyway.
E MajorE             BB
there was no money it was money that you wanted.
E MajorE             BB
I went downtown, sold off most of what I owned.
E MajorE            BB         Eb MajorEb       E MajorE
and we raised a tower to broadcast all our dark dreams
E MajorE          BB
from Dinu Lipatti's bones.


Up the Wolves by The Mountain Goats

D MajorD G+G A augmentedA
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA
D MajorD


D MajorD                        G2   A augmentedA
There's bound to be a ghost at the back of your closet
G2 A augmentedA        D MajorD
No matter where you live
     D MajorD                E minorEm
There'll always be a few things, maybe several things
      G2        A augmentedA        D MajorD
That you're gonna find really difficult to forgive


D MajorD G+G A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA D MajorD


D MajorD                     G2   A augmentedA
There's gonna come a day when you'll feel better
    G2        A augmentedA      D MajorD
You'll rise up free and easy on that day
  D MajorD              E minorEm
And float from branch to branch, lighter than the air
   G2                A2      A augmentedA
Just when that day is coming, who can say, who can say
  D MajorD        G2
Our mother has been absent
   D MajorD        G2
Ever since we founded Rome
      D MajorD     A augmentedA             D MajorD
But there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home


D MajorD G+G A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA D MajorD

D MajorD                G2    A augmentedA
We're gonna commandeer the local airwaves
  G2         A augmentedA          D MajorD
To tell the neighbors what's been going on
  D MajorD                E minorEm
And they will shake their heads, and wag their bony fingers
  G2               A2        A augmentedA
In all the wrong directions and by daybreak we'll be gone


D MajorD G+G A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA D MajorD


  D MajorD              G2  A augmentedA
I'm gonna get myself in fighting trim
G2       A augmentedA         D MajorD
Scope out every angle of unfair advantage
D MajorD               E minorEm
I'm gonna bribe the officials, I'm gonna kill all the judges
G2                  A2          A augmentedA
It's gonna take you people years to recover from all of the damage
  D MajorD        G2
Our mother has been absent
   D MajorD        G2
Ever since we founded Rome
      D MajorD     A augmentedA             D MajorD
But there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home
  G2 A augmentedA D MajorD G2 A augmentedA D MajorD G2 A augmentedA D MajorD
Oh


Lion’s Teeth by The Mountain Goats

E minorEm G+G C majorC E minorEm
Em G+G D MajorD C majorC BB


E minorEm       G+G
The king of the jungle
C majorC         E minorEm
Was asleep in his car
E minorEm            G+G
When your chances fall in your lap like that
    D MajorD            C majorC        BB
You've gotta recognize them for what they really are


E minorEm    G+G
Nobody in this house
C majorC           E minorEm
Wants to own up to the truth
E minorEm           G+G
I crawl in shotgun and reach into his mouth
D MajorD          C majorC     BB
And grab hold of one long sharp tooth


     E minorEm  A augmentedA   E minorEm
And hold on
     BB
For dear life
    E minorEm   A augmentedA   E minorEm   BB
I hold on


E minorEm        G+G
Well of course he wakes up
C majorC        E minorEm
His paw hits the horn
E minorEm      G+G
I am gonna regret
D MajorD  C majorC       BB
The day that I was born


     E minorEm          G+G
And then mom rushes out to the driveway
C majorC     E minorEm
My sister too
E minorEm     G+G
Everyone's screaming
 D MajorD C majorC      BB
I am dreaming of you


    E minorEm  A augmentedA  E minorEm
I hold on
     BB
For dear life
    E minorEm  A augmentedA  E minorEm  BB
I hold on


C majorC        E minorEm
And my arms get sore
C majorC           E minorEm
And my palms start to sweat
C majorC         E minorEm
And the tears roll down my face
C majorC             BB
Till my cheeks are hot and red and soaking wet


E minorEm     G+G
In come the cops
C majorC         E minorEm
They blowtorch the doors
E minorEm   G+G
I start wailing
D MajorD    C majorC  BB
The lion roars


E minorEm           G+G
There's no good way to end this
C majorC     E minorEm
Anyone can see
E minorEm           G+G
There's this great big you
D MajorD       C majorC  BB
And little old me


      E minorEm  A augmentedA  E minorEm
And we hold on
     BB
For dear life
    E minorEm   A augmentedA   E minorEm
We hold on
    BB
We hold on


E minorEm  A augmentedA  E minorEm  BB (x2)

end on E minorEm


Hast Thou Considered the TetrapodCapo 1

A augmentedA D MajorD (x3)
A augmentedA

A augmentedA             D MajorD
You are sleeping off your demons
A augmentedA      D MajorD
When I come home
A augmentedA            E MajorE
Spittle bubbling on your lips
A augmentedA     D MajorD
Fine white foam
A augmentedA          D MajorD
I am young and I am good
    A augmentedA            D MajorD
It's a hot Southern California day
A augmentedA       E MajorE
If I wake you up
A augmentedA           D MajorD
There will be hell to pay
        A augmentedA
And alone in my room
     D MajorD          A augmentedA
I am the last of a lost civilization
D MajorD           A augmentedA
And I vanish into the dark
  D MajorD       A augmentedA
And rise above my station
D MajorD       A augmentedA
Rise above my station


D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD A augmentedA E MajorE A augmentedA A majorA


   A augmentedA             D MajorD
But I do wake you up and when I do
  A augmentedA              D MajorD
You blaze down the hall and you scream
A augmentedA           E MajorE
I'm in my room with my headphones on
A augmentedA     D MajorD
Deep in a dream chamber
  A augmentedA           D MajorD
And then I'm awake and I'm guarding my face
A augmentedA             D MajorD
Hoping you don't break my stereo
    A augmentedA             E MajorE
Because it's the one thing that I couldn't live without
     A augmentedA
And so I think about that
    D MajorD
Then I sort of black out
              A augmentedA
Held under these smothering waves
    D MajorD            A augmentedA
By your strong and thick veined hand
D MajorD        A augmentedA
But one of these days
     E MajorE         A augmentedA
I'm gonna wriggle off on dry land

A augmentedA D MajorD (x3)

A augmentedA


Magpie by The Mountain Goats

E minorEm G+G D MajorD E minorEm x2

E minorEm           G+G
Feed the kittens in the kitchen
D MajorD          E minorEm
Set food out for the strays
E minorEm         G+G
Try hard to do your best
  D MajorD          E minorEm
The magpie will have his way

E minorEm G+G D MajorD E minorEm x2

E minorEm          G+G
Fill your mouth with berries
    D MajorD        E minorEm
By the full light of the moon
E minorEm          G+G
Work all night if you have to
  D MajorD        E minorEm
The magpie comes at noon

E minorEm B minorBm A augmentedA E minorEm  x4

E minorEm        G+G
Shore up the crucifixes
     D MajorD        E minorEm
Above the archways and the doors
  E minorEm         G+G
The magpie will come at midday
       D MajorD       E minorEm
And you will go down on all fours

E minorEm G+G D MajorD E minorEm x2

E minorEm                G+G
And when the cherry's white with blossoms
  D MajorD      E minorEm
Be ready and be brave
E minorEm          G+G
And remember what we had here
        D MajorD         E minorEm
When there was something left to save
E minorEm B minorBm A augmentedA E minorEm x4


Song for Dennis Brown by The Mountain Goats

e|---3---3-------------------------3---|
BB|---3-----------------------------3---|
G+G|---0-----------------------------0---|
D MajorD|---0---------0-------------------0---|
A augmentedA|---2------0h2------3--2--0--0----2---|
E MajorE|---3---3-------------------------3---|

Intro:
G+G riff G+G riff
G+G
On the day that Dennis Brown's lung collapsed
C majorC D MajorD G+G (riff)
spring rain was misting down on Kingston
G+G
and down at the harbour local
C majorC D MajorD G+G (riff)
cops were intercepting an inbound shipment
C majorC G+G
and for a while there it was chaos
C majorC D MajorD
as they handcuffed and then roughed up some sailors
G+G
on the day my lung collapses
C majorC D MajorD G+G (riff)
it's not gonna be much different

G+G
On the day that Dennis Brown's habits caught up with him
C majorC D MajorD G+G (riff)
school children sang in choirs
G+G
and out behind the Chinese restaurants
C majorC D MajorD G+G (riff)
guys were jumping into dumpsters
C majorC G+G
and the stench was overbearing
C majorC D MajorD
but they were past the point of caring
G+G
on the day my habits catch up with me
C majorC D MajorD G+G (riff)
I'll be down among the jumpers

E minorEm G+G
E minorEm G+G
E minorEm G+G
E minorEm C majorC

e|----------|
BB|----------|
G+G|----------|
D MajorD|--------0-|
A augmentedA|--3-2-0-0-|
E MajorE|----------|

and then D MajorD (light on the high notes)

G+G
and when the birds come home in spring
C majorC D MajorD G+G (riff)
we will fill them full of buckshot
G+G
and jets of contaminated blood
C majorC D MajorD G(riff)
will cloud the rivers and the lakes
C majorC G+G
it took all the coke in town
C majorC D MajorD
to bring down dennis brown
G+G C majorC
on the day my lung collapses
D MajorD G+G (riff)
we'll see just how much it takes

G+G (riff)
E minorEm G+G
E minorEm G+G
E minorEm G+G
E minorEm C majorC

in here play (much more pronounced this time)

e|----------|
BB|----------|
G+G|----------|
D MajorD|--------0-|
A augmentedA|--3-2-0-0-|
E MajorE|----------|

and then D MajorD (light on the high notes)

G+G (riff)

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Love Love Love by The Mountain Goats

E MajorE  Asus2Asus2  E MajorE  Asus2Asus2
   E MajorE               Asus2Asus2
King Saul fell on his sword when it all went wrong,
   E MajorE                 BB
and Joseph’s brothers sold him down the river for a song,
   E MajorE               Asus2Asus2
and Sonny Liston rubbed some tiger balm into his glove.
   C# minorC#m             Asus2Asus2              E MajorE
some things you do for money and some you do for love, love, love.

E MajorE Asus2Asus2  E MajorE  Asus2Asus2

  E MajorE              Asus2Asus2
Raskolnikov felt sick but he couldn't say why
     E MajorE               BB
when he saw his face reflected in his victim's twinkling eye.
   E MajorE               Asus2Asus2
some things you'll do for money and some you'll do for fun,
    C# minorC#m                 Asus2Asus2        BB   E MajorE
but the things you do for love are going to come back to you one by one.

E MajorE Asus2Asus2

Asus2Asus2                   E MajorE
Love, love is going to lead you by the hand
Asus2Asus2                 E MajorE
   into a white and soundless place.
Asus2Asus2           C# minorC#m       E MajorE
   now we see things as in a mirror dimly.
Asus2Asus2                 BB
   then we shall see each other face to face.

  E MajorE             Asus2Asus2
and way out in Seattle young Kurt Cobain
 E MajorE                 BB
snuck out to the greenhouse, put a bullet in his brain.
 E MajorE                  Asus2Asus2
snakes in the grass beneath our feet, rain in the clouds above,
   C# minorC#m            Asus2Asus2                E MajorE
some moments last forever, but some flare up with love, love, love.

 E MajorE Asus2Asus2  E MajorE  Asus2Asus2 E MajorE  Asus2Asus2  E MajorE  Asus2Asus2

Pale Green Things by The Mountain Goats

C majorC FF C majorC FF
C majorC
 Got up before dawn
FF              C majorC    FF
 Went down to the racetrack
C majorC
  Riding with the windows down
FF                  C majorC      FF
  Shortly after your first heart attack.
A minorAm              C majorC
  You parked behind the paddock,
A minorAm             C majorC
  Cracking asphalt underfoot,
A minorAm              C majorC
  Coming up through the cracks
       G+G         C majorC      C majorC FF C majorC FF
Pale green things, pale green things

C majorC
  You watched the horses run their workouts
FF                     C majorC    FF
  You held your stopwatch in your left hand
C majorC
  And a Racing Form beneath your arm
FF                     C majorC       FF
  Casting your gaze way out to no man's land
A minorAm                 C majorC
  Sometimes I'll meet you out there
A minorAm         C majorC
  Lonely and frightened
A minorAm                  C majorC
  Flicking my tongue out at the wet leaves
       G+G         C majorC
Pale green things, pale green things
C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC FF A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC G+G C majorC

C majorC
  My sister called at 3 AM
FF          C majorC    FF
  Just last December
C majorC
  She told me how you'd died at last, at last.
FF                      C majorC           FF
  That morning at the racetrack was one thing that I remembered
A minorAm                 C majorC
  I turned it over in my mind
A minorAm                 C majorC
  Like a living Chinese finger trap
A minorAm                 C majorC
  Seaweed in Indiana sawgrass
       G+G         C majorC
Pale green things, pale green things

C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC FF A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC G+G C majorC