The Young Thousands chords by The Mountain Goats

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Intermediate

Intro:

A

Verse:

A          F       Bm       D
Boats ease into the harbor bearing real suspicious cargo
    A        C#m     Bm         D
And the sunlight on the water sets a switch off in your brain
A             F        Bm     D
The things that you've got coming will consume you
    A        C#m       Bm      D
There's someone waiting out there in an alley with a chain

A F  Bm D
A C#m Bm D

  A           F      Bm         D
The ghosts that haunt your building are prepared to take on substance
    A         C#m       Bm     D
And the dull pain that you live with isn't getting any duller
     A       F        Bm  D
There's a closet full of almost-pristine videotape
A      C#m      Bm        D
Documenting sordid little scenes in living color

Chorus:

        A  A7  D/F#
Here they come
     Bm    D
The young thousands
        A  A7  D/F#
Here they come
     Bm    D
The young thousands

A F  Bm D
A C#m Bm D

Verse:

  A          F        Bm        D
You drive east from the ocean with both hands tied on the wheel
    A       C#m     Bm       D
And you go past Garden Grove as the pleasure index rises
  A           F       Bm          D
The things that you've got coming will do things that you're afraid to
     A        C#m       Bm     D
There is someone waiting out there with a mouthful of surprises

A F  Bm D
A C#m Bm D

  A           F         Bm       D
The ghosts that haunt your building have been learning how to breathe
   A         C#m      Bm       D
They scan the hallways nightly vainly searching for a sign
   A        F       Bm           D
There must be diamonds somewhere in a place that stinks this bad
     A           C#m   Bm       D
There are brighter things than diamonds coming down the line

Chorus:

        A  A7  D/F#
Here they come
     Bm    D
The young thousands
        A  A7  D/F#
Here they come
     Bm    D
The young thousands

Outro:

A F  Bm D A C#m Bm D X4
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