Red Tide chords by Neko Case

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:

B minorBm G+G E minorEm x2

Verse:

B minorBm
There’s a smell here that stands my hairs on end
 G+G            E minorEm
Dog hair in the heater, gas pumps and cedar
  B minorBm
And jacknives on the nine
  G+G         E minorEm
and seabirds choked on fishing line

Chorus:

B minorBm G+G E minor 7Em7 x2

Verse:

B minorBm
Clouds say hush but the chainsaws mush on
G+G       E minorEm
to Custer and Columbia
B minorBm                    G+G
Salty tentacles shrink in the sun but the red tide is over
  E minorEm
The mollusks they have won

Chorus:

B minorBm G+G E minor 7Em7 x4

Bridge:

B minorBm
There’s a smell here of gravel and cigarettes lit
     G+G
When the match made them sweet
     E minorEm           G+G
When the engine turned over and beat up our street
  B minorBm
Oh, that was the day
  D MajorD
To remember

Outro:

 D MajorD
I remember because of the fires that leapt
     G+G
From the caves of the things that have not happened yet
    B minorBm                   A augmentedA   add AbAb
When I think of it now they smell to me quite sinister
 D MajorD
I want to go back and die at the drive in
G+G
Die before strangers can say
D MajorD     G+G
I hate the rain
D MajorD     G+G
I hate the rain

B minorBm B minorBm G+G E minorEm
B minorBm B minorBm G+G E minorEm
B minorBm