Cotton Chords by The Mountain Goats

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_ _ This song is for the rats _ [Bb] who hurled themselves into the ocean [Am] when [D] they saw that the explosives.
[F] in the cargo hold [C] were just about to blow.
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_ _ This song is for the soil _ [Bb] that's toxic clear down to the bedrock _ [D] where no thing of consequence [F] can grow.
So, [C].
drop your seeds there, let them go, [Am] let them all go, _ _ [C] _ _ _ .
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let them all go.
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This song is for the people who [Bb] tell their families that they're sorry _ [D] for things they.
can't [F] and won't feel [C] sorry for.
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And once there was a desk, and [Bb] now it's in a storage locker somewhere.
_ [Dm] And this song is for the stick [F] pins and the cottons [C] I left in the top drawer.
[Am] Let them all go, _ .
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_ [Am] _ _ let them all go.
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_ _ I want to sing one for the cars [Bb] that are right now headed silent down the highway.
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_ [D] And it's dark and there is [F] nobody driving.
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[C] And something has got to give.
_ _ I saw you waiting by the roadside.
_ [Bb] You didn't know that I was watching.
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_ [D] _ _ Now [F] you know.
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[C] _ _ _ Let it all go, [Am] let them all go, _ _ [C] _ _ _ .
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let it all go.
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