Chords for The Mountain Goats - Down to the Ark

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_ _ _ _ _ _ The candidates met up in North [Am] Dakota,
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[Dm] _ and they donned their black _ robes.
[F] There in the chapel [G] hall they said a [C] brief _ _ invocation to their [Am] cloven-hoofed prince.
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_ _ _ And they signed their names [F] in blood on the vestry [G] wall.
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[C] In Christ you know there's neither high nor [Am] low, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ and the void will claim [F] all creatures
small [G] or bright. _ _
[C] _ _ Seal up the borders, or [A] let everybody [Am] in. _
[Dm] In the order of the serpent, there'll [F] be neither left nor [G] right.
And we [Am] pull _ _ _ [G] _ _ [F] down our _ _ blindfolds, _ _ _ _
[Am] reach out for [G] the lever in [F] the _ dark, _ _ _ _ [Dm] get a sticker for
[C] our shirts as [E] we head into the [F] sun. _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _ Proudly bearing [F] the mark, _ [G] headed down [C] to the ark. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[C] The applicants went down to [Am] Oklahoma, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ and they hired an accent coach [F] to teach them the western [G] twang. _
[C] And several post-born babies learned the [Am] hard way. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ Vampires only kiss you when [F] they've sharpened up [G] their fangs, yeah.
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[F] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] And as Minnesota fell, so went [Am] Missouri.
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_ _ were meeting at _ [F] _
VFWs in the [G] snow, and [C] we voted down the tax codes, [Am] and we voted down the war.
_ _ [Dm] So many names to choose from, _ [F]
just one [G] way to go.
And [Am] we pull _ _ [G] down _ [F] our _ _ blindfolds, _ _ _ _ [Am]
reach out for [G] the lever in [F] the dark, _ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] get a sticker for
our [C] _ shirts as we head [Em] into [F] the sun.
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ Proudly bearing [F] the mark, [G] _ headed down to the [C] ark. _ _ _ _ _ _
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