Rat Queen chords by The Mountain Goats

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse 1:
    Eb         Ab         Cm
Meek subjects by torchlight come to pay their respects
    B Bb        Ab  G
As foretold by the ancient texts
   Db        Ab
Line snaking down the sewer
     Cm      Ab
Reverent hush upon the crowd
B       Db
One by one we approach
  G7      F
The figure in the shroud

Chorus:
  Cm  Eb  F7
New dreams
          Cm    Eb  F7
New dreams for the rat queen
  Cm  Eb  F7
New dreams
          Cm    Eb  F7
New dreams for the rat queen


Verse 2:
           Eb        Ab
Great warm throbbing hum of the undercity
Cm
At one with the purpose
    B         Bb
I am a faceless, nameless acolyte
Ab          G
Here tonight at your service
    Db         Ab
Take my visions, make them real
 Cm           Ab
Impose them on the world above
B         Db
All the dead sleepwalkers
G7            F
Who never learned how to love


Chorus:
  Cm  Eb  F7
New dreams
          Cm    Eb  F7
New dreams for the rat queen
  Cm  Eb  F7
New dreams
          Cm    Eb  F7
New dreams for the rat queen


Bridge:
     Ab   Bb
Brand new dreams
   Eb
Great visions
Ab         G
Something heady and threatening
Gb         F
On the boil in the kitchen


Verse 3:
Eb       Ab
Arise from the storm drains
Cm
Take to the streets
B           Bb
We who have never once tasted
Ab       G
The stench of defeat
    Db      Ab
Victory sweet as the dregs
Cm        Ab
Of the fast food dumpster
B             Db
Look how they jump when we show up
G7            F
Like they've just seen a monster


Chorus:
  Cm  Eb  F7
New dreams
          Cm    Eb  F7
New dreams for the rat queen
  Cm  Eb  F7
New dreams
          Cm    Eb  F7
New dreams for the rat queen


Outro:
Bb F Cm
Bb F Cm
Eb Bb Cm
Eb F Cm