Chords for The Raccoon (and the Myth)

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[G#m] _ _ Blissful _ [C#] glow _ _ under a willow tree _ _
[G#] Kindness _ flows from a golden _ revelry
It [C#m] speaks in _ tongues of _ forbearers long forgotten
[E] _ Humble _ [C#] lungs that tell us to [E] prepare for what's to [B] _
come
[F#] _ _ Ooh, _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ oh _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C#m] Hands of _ bilge, stories laid in the roots [C#] surrounding
_ [G#m] _
Tales that quilt, the thread [E] preserved in mystery
[C#m] A welcome [C#] _
here, _ face creased like the rotten wood
[G#m] Do _ not _ fear, he says, as though [E] he senses we're _ [E] afraid
_ _ [B] Our _ _ home will die [F#] unless _ we find [B] a way
He _ _ _
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then begins to speak his mind, a legend lost from weary times
A secret song unearthed before [Bm] our eyes
_ _ _ [F#m] I heard a [F#] story long [G#] ago [Bm] of spirits found [F#m] in heaven's snow
Atop a mountain far above the sky
[Bm] These _ _ _ _ spirits pure [F#] as light could bring an endless flow of water [B] spring
Back to places cursed with death [Bm] and waste
[Bm] _ Ooh, [F#m] oh
In order to restore this life, it wouldn't come without [B] a price
[F#m] A set of [F#] totems the spirits do require
_ _ _ [F#m] _ The skin of [A] a limbless ghoul, the feather of a winged bull
[F#m] A trickster fit with [A] pride that's bound to [B] fall
_ [E] _ _
_ [F#m] The tooth of a putrid brute, [Bm] the sharpest [B] minds he can pollute
[F#m] And last, a creature [F#m] foul as death himself
_ _ _ _ The claw of a murderous [A] beast, starving for [B] a holy [F#m] feast
A bitterness [G#m] _
untamed by nature's sin _ _ _
But [B] who, [A] in journey so faint, [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B]
faints the [A] dangers and take on [F#m] such perilous scars?
_ _ [E] The fox and bird [A] looked to each [F#m] other's eyes _ _
_ Without [B] a question, knew they [F#m] had to risk it all and [B] try _
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[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
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_ [E] Forward [A] they went, _ [A] as faces met [B] with shock
_ [E] Knowing the restless [A] spirits that hunt [F#m] along the path they'd walk
_ _ Though their lives may be [F#m] lost along the way _
_ It'd be [E] worth [A] it to save the home _ [A] you [F#] deserve to stay _ _