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