Jets to Brazil – King Medicine (Guitar)

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Orange Rhyming Dictionary 1998 Jade Tree Records Submitted by: [email protected] Chords used: E - 022100 D - xx0232 B - x24442 C#m - x46654 A - x02220 Am - x02210

Intro:
E--D-B-C#m-E--D-B-C#m-A--Am-- x2
E-- x2

Verse 1:

E                  D
  know that you'll soon

   B    E
go crazy just like a

D    B         A
whittling stick hit by

                   Am
the coming daylight  cut

up in a quick succession

E              D
  a pointed confession

B     E            D
really stripped of all

     B    A
your armor down to your

           Am
very nature  beneath

                   E   E
the haze and vapor gaze

Verse 2:

E               D
  you're such a willing

 B      E
stick to beckon that

D       B
wanting knife you've

    A
been looking for it

Am
  the right blade all

     E           D
your life saying who's

      B     E
gonna cut me down to a

D         B
size that suits me?

A
  is there a worthy

        Am
sculptor  among all

               E
you fine young knives?

Refrain 1:

D
  it's enough to make

              A
you take your head

    B      A    E
and put it on a shelf

D
  to cut the heart out

          A
from your chest

            B
now they'll come

    A       E
for that as well

Chorus 1:

F#m
tell me how you do

           Am
that crazy trick

where you walk

         E
around asleep

F#m
save it for your

doctor friend the

Am
one who keeps you

               E  E
under lock and key

Verse 3:

E                 D
  you'll soon go screaming

B     E
like a bargain basement

D   B        A
lunatic who's not so

                Am
specialized that  they

couldn't just replace

   E          D
you why don't you start

B     E
crying for all that 

D          B
you've got left here

A
  why don't you stop

     Am
dying  before you

              E
go and get it right

Refrain 2:

D
  now you're selling off

    A        B
the house so you can

A       E   D
buy the farm you cut

the heart out from

     A
your chest to let the

B        A            E
light in through your arm

Chorus 2:

F#m
tell me how you do

           Am
that crazy trick

where you walk

         E
around asleep

F#m
save it for your

doctor friend the

Am
one who keeps you

               E
under lock and key

Refrain 3:

D
  it's enough to make you

          A        B
take your head and put

   A    E  D
it in a bag to cut the

                 A
teeth out at the pink

            B
now there's nothing

A      E  E C#m B A
in the bag

Interlude: C#m--A--F#m--A-- x2 Outro:

C#m             A
   foul weather friend you

       F#m
are so dying an amateur

A          C#m         A
chemist now   king medicine

           F#m
when is it perfect? where

      A
is it leading you? there

      C#m         A
is no cure only reprieve

              F#m
some fleeting joy posing

   A
as balance nothing is

C#m
sure so every four

A              F#m
hours king medicine

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