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COLOR IN YOUR CHEEKS - The Mountain Goats
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Tabbed by: D&Dlover (Walker)
Email: [email protected]
Tuning: Standard
The chords used in this song are mostly barre chords, but you can use pretty
much any variation of each chord that you want and it still sounds great.
[Verse 1]
C#m G# A B
She came in on the red-eye to Dallas-Fort Worth.
E G# A B
All the way from sunny Taipei.
C#m G# A B
Skin the color of a walnut shell,
E G# A B
And a baseball cap holding down her black hair.
A B
And she came here after midnight.
E A
The hot weather made her feel right at home.
[Chorus]
E A
Come on in, we haven't slept for weeks.
E A B
Drink some of this, it'll put color in your cheeks.
[Verse 2]
C#m G# A B
He drove in from Mexicali no worse for wear.
E G# A B
Money to burn, time to kill, but
C#m G# A B
Five minutes looking in his eyes and
E G# A B A
We all knew he was broken pretty bad, so we gave him what we had.
B
We cleared a space for him to sleep in,
E
And we let the silence that's our trademark
A
Make its presence felt.
[Chorus]
E A
Come on in, we haven't slept for weeks.
E A B
Drink some of this, it'll put color in your cheeks.
[Interlude]
C# G# A B
E B
[Verse 3]
C#m G# A B E
They came in by the dozens, walking or crawling.
G# A
Some were bright-eyed,
B
Some were dead on their feet.
E G# A B E
And they came from Zimbabwe, Or from Soviet Georgia,
G# A B A
East Saint Louis, or from Paris, or they lived across the street.
B
But they came, and when they'd finally made it here,
E A
It was the least that we could do to make our welcome clear.
[Chorus]
E A
Come on in, we haven't slept for weeks.
E A B
Drink some of this, this'll put color in your cheeks.
[Outro]
E A
E A
E B
C#m G# A B (x3)
E
