Chords for The Handsome Family - Octopus

_ _ _ The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ octopus _
[C] has three hearts [F] and lives in [D] caves below the sea, [C] or in a beer can, [F] or
a bathtub, [E] or a puddle in [Am] the street. _ _ _ _ _
Any fisherman [D] can [C] tell you [F] when an octopus [Fm] _ waves its [C] arms.
It [G] _ [F] hypnotizes schools of fish, [E] all the [E] while it stops [Am] for miles. _
_ _ _ _ Even the waves [C] stand still.
_ [F] All the [Fm] witnesses have sworn, [C] and it's [G] impossible [F] to resist
_ [E] the urge to jump [Am] overboard.
_ _ [G] _ _ _
[C] That's why I try and stay away [F] from seashore [Fm] holidays.
_ [F] But [C] I know [G] that no [F] one has to know [C] if I [G] take an [F] evening stroll _ _
[C] down [G] to the end [F] of the wooden pier [E] where the water's deep [Am] and cold. _
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[C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
[Dm] _ _ [F] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
[Am] If I should see [C] an octopus _
[F] lift its arms [Fm] out of the sea,
[C] or see [G] its [F] shadow rising up [E] across the rooftops above [A] the [Am] streets. _
_ _ _ _ _ I'd follow the [C] dancing limb [F] to the spinning edge [Fm] of the sky,
[C] where all [G] the boats [F] fall off the world [E] into the _ _ [A] octopus's eye.
_ [G] _ _ _
[C] That's why I know I shouldn't go [F] on a cruise across the [Fm] _ [F] sea.
[C] But I know [G] that no [F] one has to know [C] if I take [G] an evening [F] stroll _ _
[C] down to [G] the end [F] of the wooden pier [E] where the water's deep [A] and cold. _ _
[G] _ _ _ [C] That's why I try and stay away from [F] _ seashore [Fm] holidays.
_ _ [C] But I know [G] that no [F] one has to know [C] if I take [G] an evening [F] stroll
_ [C] down to [G] the end of [F] the wooden pier where [E] the water's deep and [Am] cold.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _