Chords for The Mountain Goats - "Jenny" / "Color in Your Cheeks" (2011-02-26)

_ _ _ _ _ Hi, [F] we're the Mountain Goats.
[Db] Thank you so much for [Eb] coming out to support reproductive
choice.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ I used to be a health care provider and it's _ very weird to have people opposing
health care stuff.
But my songs are fairly apolitical.
I'm just going to play a couple
of them if you don't know me.
Hi, we're the Mountain Goats.
This is called Jenny. _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[D] You roared into [A] the driveway [G] of our southwestern ranch style house [A] on a new _ Kawasaki _ [G] _ chrome
[A] yellow and black.
Fresh out of the showroom, _ _ _ _
[G] _ our [A] house faced west.
So the new orange sun
_ [D] _ positioned at [A] your back.
Lit [D] up your [A] magnificent silhouette.
How much better, how much [D] better
could my life get?
[A] 900 cubic centimeters of raw whining power.
No outstanding [D] warrants
for my arrest.
Whoa, whoa, [A] _ whoa, whoa.
The pirates lie for me.
[D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ I hopped on back of the
[G] bike, _ slipped [A] my arms around you.
_ _ And I let [D] my face sink down, down, down into [A] your hair. _ _
I inhaled as deeply _ [D] _ as I [A] possibly could.
Well, you were sweet and delicious _ [G] as the warm [A] desert
air.
[D] And you pointed your [A] headlamp toward the horizon.
We were the two things in the
galaxy [G] God didn't have his eyes on.
[A] 900 cc's of raw whining power.
No outstanding warrants
for my arrest.
Hi diddle dee dee.
God damn, the pirates lie for me.
_ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _
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[G] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
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[B] I'm very bad at political
speeches [Gb] but I do want to say that it's important that we [Eb] don't concede any ground because once
you concede [A] a right, it's very hard to get it back.
[G] And the brave men and women who went
[A] before us to win reproductive [F] choice deserve better than for us to take it lying down when
they come for our rights.
So [A] _ _ _ _
[A] I think we should say to those who won the right for us that we
appreciate their struggle [Db] and we express [N] that by refusing to give any [B] ground whatsoever to the
people who will take it away _ [D]
just for the sake of [A] it, right?
So _ [A] this is a song about including as
many [F] people as want to come to the party and it's called Color [Dbm] Your Cheeks.
[Bb] She came in [A] on the red
eye [B] to Dallas Fort Worth [Ab] all the way [A] from sunny Taipei.
[Db] _ _ [Ab] Skin the color [A] of a walnut [B] shell [Ab] and a
baseball [Ab] cap.
[A] Holding down her [B] dark hair [A] and she came here _ [B] after midnight. _ _ _
[E] The hot weather made
her feel right at home.
Come on in.
_ _ [Gb] We haven't slept for weeks and drink some of this.
It'll put
[A]
color in [Gb] your cheeks.
[Db] _ [Bb] He drove in from [A] _ [Eb] Mexicali.
No worse for [E] wear.
Money to burn.
[A] _ [B] Time to [Db] kill.
But [Ab] five [A] minutes looking in his [Bm] eyes and we knew [Eb] he was broken [A] pretty bad.
So [Gb] we gave him what [A] we
had.
We cleared a space for him to [B] sleep in and we let [Ab] the silence, that's our trademark, make its
graceful [Gb] presence felt.
Come on in.
_ _ [B] We haven't slept for weeks and drink some of this.
[E] _ It'll put
[A]
color in your [Gb] cheeks.
[Dbm] _ They [Ab] came in [A] by the dozens.
Walking or crawling.
Some were bright-eyed.
[B] Some were dead on their [Ab] feet.
And they came from Zimbabwe [Gbm] or from Soviet Georgia.
[Eb] East St.
[A] Louis
or from Paris or they lived across the street.
But they did come and [Ebm] when they'd finally made it here
it was [B] the least that we could do [A] to make our welcome clear.
Come [B] on in.
_ _ [A] We haven't slept for
weeks and drink some of [B] this.
[A] This'll put color in your cheeks.
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[B] _ _ [Dbm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [A] _
_ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
[A] _ _ [B] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ So thank you so much for coming out.
I'm going to play one more.
I want to say how completely starstruck I am to be backstage with
Kathleen, Hannah, an amazing human [B] being.
_ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [N] Oh we don't have time for one more.
Thank you so much for coming out.
I'll see you next time. _ _ _ _ _