Bell Swamp Connection chords by The Mountain Goats

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro 1:

Dmaj7

Intro 2:

D
Dsus2 Dmaj7 G
Dsus2 Dmaj7 G
Dsus2 Dmaj7


Verse:
Dsus
Toward the tail-end of the age that's almost finished
Dsus
Where the highway starts to crack and nobody fixes it
Dsus2 (6)
I was wandering through an undeveloped tract
D

Out near the ocean
Dsus
One-hundred acres, we will build to suit
Dsus
See what there is to see before it's gone
Dsus2
Somebody's always just about
Dsus         D
To put some kind of awful plan in motion


G
Eastern red cedars, and the pines

And suddenly an elevated stone slab
                  D
In what must have been a clearing once

G
Try to recognize the signals and the signposts
       G F# Em D
My curiosity
Em  D          Asus   A
Will likely always get the best of me


D
It's like that one thing
           E
My Dad kept trying to tell me
    G
As the twilight
             D
Inched its way on up his body
D    E    G    D
Get out, get out, get out, get out

Dsus
Well of course I climbed atop the slab and I lay down on it

I am a child

I had my face toward the sky
                   D
Lying there in the sun with both my eyes closed

Dsus
Woke up in near darkness

What the hell is wrong with me

Volunteer pines in their hundreds in the dusk like military tentpoles

G
Let my eyes adjust

Try to read the markings on the slab
                             D
Weird alphabets I felt sure I hadn't seen, just before I passed out
G
Stars growing brighter

Me looking up
    G   F#   Em     D
Like a lobster in a cage down in the depths
               Asus
Beneath the bottom of a glass boat
        D
And I heard a voice
               E
From somewhere out beyond the free fall
    G
Like a captive soldier
               D
He's just trying to warn his brothers
D    G    G    D
Get out, get out, get out, get out