The Mountain Goats – Cotton
Chords by Danilo Herrera
I’m 99% sure this is right, and 100% sure it’s more accurate than the other one on this site.
As played in the album “We Shall All Be Healed”
Standard tuning (EADGBe)
Time signature: 4/4
Chords used:
C Bb Dm F
X 3 2 0 1 0 X 1 3 3 3 1 X X 0 2 3 1 1 3 3 2 1 1
Am Gm
X 0 2 2 1 0 3 5 5 3 3 3
Intro:
C – Bb – Dm – F – C (Play the C and Bb chords for 8 beats each, and the Dm and F
chords for just 4 beats each)
C
This song is for the rats
Bb
Who hurled themselves into the ocean
Dm F
When they saw that the explosives in the cargo hold
C
Were just about to blow
C
This song is for the soil
Bb
That's toxic clear down to the bedrock
Dm F
Where no thing of consequence can grow
C
Drop your seeds there, let them go
C Am F Am --> play for 4 beats each
Let them all go
C Am F Am* C
Let them all go
C
This song is for the people
Bb
Who tell their families that they're sorry
Dm F C
For things they can't and won't feel sorry for
C
And once there was a desk
Bb
And now it's in a storage locker somewhere
Dm F
And this song is for the stick pins and the cottons
C
I left in the top drawer
C Am F Am
Let 'em all go
C Am F Am*
Let 'em all go
Interlude:
C Gm F C --> Play each chord for 4 beats. Play 4 times
C
I wanna sing one for the cars
Bb
That are right now headed silent down the highway
Dm F
And it's dark and there is nobody driving
C
And something has got to give
C
I saw you waiting by the roadside
Bb
You didn't know that I was watching
Dm F
Now you know
C
Let it all go
C Am F Am
Let 'em all go
C Am F Am*
Let it all go
Outro:
C Gm F C --> Play each chord for 4 beats. Play 4 times.
*:
Strum the Am chord a few times and at the final strums release the index finger
from the B string and strum. Alternate between this and the normal Am 2 or 3
times. Listen to the song to get the hang of it
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