Abandoned Flesh chords by The Mountain Goats

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
D# A# D# A#
D# A# D# B#


Verse 1:
    D#           A#
Robert Smith is secure at his villa in France
   D#             A#
Any child knows how to do the spiderweb dance
     Cm
Siouxsie has enough hits to keep the bills paid
    D#                 B#
Every New Year's in Los Angeles you can still see Richard Blade

Chorus:
     A#  B#            D#
But the world forgot about Gene Loves Jezebel
      A#  B#            D#
Yeah, the world forgot about Gene Loves Jezebel

D# A# D# A#
D# A# D# B#


Verse 2:
   D#
They charted once or twice
     A#
They were on a major label
     D#
When the singer went solo
     G#
He left money on the table
    Cm
The two main guys are related

They're at war with each other
      D#
Now there's two Genes loving Jezebel
A#      B#
One for each brother


Bridge:
     G#  B#    Cm
But the world came to agree
G#              B#
  What you see is what you get
Cm
And what you get is what you see
          Cm           B#
Whether you're The March Violets or The Bolshoi
     D#                Cm
Bands who had to leave the darkness for the sun
   G#             Cm
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry were on Cherry Red I think
       Cm          B#
They've been playing clubs since 1981


Verse 3:
   D#
To be fair to Gene Loves Jezebel
   G#
Billy Corgan brought them on stage
     D#
It was in 2011
        G#
It's on their Wikipedia page
       Cm
But for the most part

However big that chorused bass may throb
    G#
You and me and all of us
          B#
Are gonna have to find a job


Chorus:
      A#        B#      D#
Because the world will never know or understand
G#
  The suffocated splendor
              B#
Of the once and future goth band


Outro:
D# A# D# A#
D# A# D# B#
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